Tomoko Kodama Tomoko has been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art and in the Ottawa area for over 30 years. She developed a non-traditional method called the "Breathing Method" for brush calligraphy and painting. She encourages students to create their own style by adapting this principle to sumi-e, watercolour, mixed media, oil, etc. Her work and her students' work can be seen at www.storm.ca/~kodama.