Umiko

“Find your flow” color typography poster. Great for posters, t-shirts, greeting cards.

Hand drawn typography poster with vintage gas lamp drawing and brush lettering inspiration quote.

"No cure for love typographic" poster

Digital art inspired by modern Japanese engraving.

There’s nothing so soft and so delicate as first willow catkins. Spring is many days away, yet, once you see those soft little paws, you’ll know, it’s already coming. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

My first work in the “Flower spirits” collection. There’s something special about orchids, and it’s not just their sensual connotation. When you look at an orchid it does seem as if it’s looking back, curiously and a bit slyly. This beauty has personality! :) Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese black dry ink, and animal hair brush.

Orchids surely can fire up imagination. Don’t those petals look like a set of delicate wings? Beauty can lift you up even if you are not a butterfly. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Magnolia grandiflora is one of the most impressive and majestic flowers in the world. Yet, it is also as delicate as a young queen among sturdy knights. You know that beauty can save the word, but it can also rule it. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Sometimes you get a feeling that nature is in fact a dance, beautiful and complicated. Perhaps, a waltz or even a tango. There may be controversies, but we always have a chance to resolve them, just join in the dance. My first work in “Nature Unlimited” collection. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

AUTHOR’S PAYMENTS FROM THIS ARTWORK WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITIES HELPING PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Hand drawn lettering, based on a quote by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: «If freedom has a name, its name is Ukraine». Please, buy a print and support our people.

AUTHOR’S PAYMENTS FROM THIS ARTWORK WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITIES HELPING PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Hand drawn lettering, based on a quote by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: «If freedom has a name, its name is Ukraine». Please, buy a print and support our people.

Hand drawn typography poster. Brush lettering phrase in a vintage hot air balloon form. Inspiration quote saying Dream on until you get there. Great for posters, greeting cards.

AUTHOR’S PAYMENTS FROM THIS ARTWORK WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITIES HELPING PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Hand drawn lettering, based on a quote by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: «If freedom has a name, its name is Ukraine». Please, buy a print and support our people.

"Find your flow" typography poster. Great for posters, t-shirts, greeting cards.

Cats know all about hunting for the lucky chance. If you really want something you have to look like you could not care less. Then, who knows, it may just drop by. And it’s more fun like this anyway. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Magnolia scroll Japanese style original sumi-e ink painting. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink, and animal hair brush.

Chrysanthemum is a symbol of autumn. It blooms sometimes well into winter, surviving bitter cold and snowfall, and so it has become a symbol of fortitude and wisdom that comes from experience. However, chrysanthemums can also be strikingly beautiful, commanding respect and admiration. No wonder, it has become an emblem of Japanese Imperial dynasty. This painting underlines this particular aspect of chrysanthemum’s symbolism. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese black dry ink, vermilion ink and animal hair brush.

Book of leaves

Wild orchid is one of the “four gentlemen” of oriental art, and thus one of the most important themes, which symbolizes spring and gentle femininity. However, it often puzzles non-Asian art students as this orchid, seen in the classical Chinese and Japanese works looks unfamiliar, not like an orchid at all. Still, this is an orchid, one of the oldest species, found in China and admired by Confucius himself. Unlike many other orchid kinds it grows on earth and rocks, often on river banks. It’s leafs and petals are long and narrow, flowers are often pale white. (If you are a scientific kind, you can look it up by the name Cymbidium ensifolium :) So you have it, a most elegant and delicate symbol of femininity, calm and soft as moonligh...

All little things enjoy fun and games. Wait… don’t we all love that? So just be a playful child any time you get a chance! Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Walking cat Japanese style original sumi-e ink painting. Hieroglyph featured means sincerity. Great for greeting cards or texture design.

Bamboo is regarded by oriental artists as “father of ink wash paining”. It is closest of all to classic calligraphy – every branch an every leaf is a separate brush stroke and so the artist conveys the energetic spirit of the plant as well as his or her own nature. Bamboo is one of the “four gentlemen” of eastern art, meaning four most popular and noble themes that represent main seasons as well as most important human virtues. It is a symbol of summer and dynamic masculine energy. This particular painting combines the “positive diagonal” of the rising stem and the lively youthful spirit of young bamboo leafs. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is...

This little kitten is very young, full of wide-eyed wonder and innocent curiosity. A little unsteady in its movements, delicate, but trusting, a reminder of how we used to feel when we were so absurdly young. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Wild plum is considered to be one of the “four gentlemen” of eastern art, meaning four most popular and noble themes that represent main seasons as well as most important human virtues. Chinese plum, also called meihua is a favorite theme of eastern art and poetry. It blooms in early spring, sometimes having to endure chill and snowfall, so this bright and delicate blossom has been celebrated as a symbol of late winter / early spring and striving new life. This painting reminds of the first days of spring, when everything is filled with cool freshness and gentle promise. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. ...

Lazy cat Japanese style original sumi-e ink painting. Great for greeting cards or texture design. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Japanese style sumi-e two mandarin ducks ink painting. Great for greeting cards or texture design. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Wild plum is considered to be one of the “four gentlemen” of eastern art, meaning four most popular and noble themes that represent main seasons as well as most important human virtues. Chinese plum, also called meihua is a favorite theme of eastern art and poetry. It blooms in early spring, sometimes having to endure chill and snowfall, so this bright and delicate blossom has been celebrated as a symbol of late winter / early spring and striving new life. This painting represents faith and optimism of early spring. Watching these brave flowers unfolding in chilly air makes you believe everything is possible. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is...

Japanese style wash ink painting featuring two crows on a blooming plum tree. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese black dry ink and animal hair brush.

"Into the light" bamboo sumi-e painting

Cats are always watchful. They would make excellent spies if only they would talk. But they are too good for that. :) Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Autumn is a lonely season, but sometimes loneliness is the most fruitful. It is the best time to pick and store for the future. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

There’s something slightly alarming in crows dancing in cool winter air. Perhaps, they remind us of faraway black sails and long forgotten adventures. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Everything reminds us of the sky, even if we forget to look up sometimes. You can wish upon a star even in the broad daylight under maple tree, just make sure you mean it. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

Walking couple Japanese style original sumi-e ink painting. Great for romantic greeting cards. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is known as Japanese ink wash painting, sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese dry ink and animal hair brush.

This is actually a true story that the author has witnessed in her own yard. Fortunately, no animals were harmed in the process :) This situation seems symbolic, though. To the author it represents the challenges of public speaking, but you can fill it with any connotations you like. Besides, it was just a lovely ink wash silhouette, presented by nature. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese black dry ink and animal hair brush.

Chrysanthemum is a symbol of autumn. It blooms sometimes well into winter, surviving bitter cold and snowfall, and so it has become a symbol of fortitude and wisdom that comes from experience. Light and shadow, success and failure, and, ultimately, valiant fight for life – all in one inspiring flower scroll. Stamp featured on the painting is the author’s “signature”, carved in tensho calligraphy characters. The style used is also known as sumi-e and suibokuga. Materials used: rice paper, Chinese black dry ink, and animal hair brush.