The Chinese Brush Painting Bible: Over 200 Motifs with Step by Step Illustrated Instructions (Volume 17) (Artist's Bibles, 17)

by Jane Dwight

Book Overview

Chinese brush painting uses minimal strokes to describe the essence of a subject and capture its rhythm and grace. This beautiful book contains 200 exquisite motifs to re-create, from flowers and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785828664
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Chartwell Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.1" x 1.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Chinese Brush Painting Bible is very informative.

The only problem I have with this book is the size, I had to get a magnifying glass to read it. Other than that I have enjoyed learning about this form of painting. It is a very hands on book with lots of examples, I'm glad I bought it.

Examples galore of Chinese watercolor painting motifs to add to your work

I have a few Chinese painting books, but I believe this will be my favorite. It's a small format, but has 256 little pages full of nice images and good directions. In the early pages, there is some history, some discussion of materials and technique, with direction for making various strokes. The bulk of the book is full of examples of many Chinese motifs. It is not 'how to paint a Chinese painting', but more on how to paint small motifs including animals, flowers, insects, trees, berries and more.

Chinese Brush Painting

This is an excellent guidebook for anyone studying or interested in Chinese Brush Painting. My only quibble is that there are not enough examples for each of the suggested compositions.

Fantastic

This is a great instructional book for anyone wanting to learn to paint in the Chinese brush painting style. There are 200 motifs with step by step instructions. I love it!

Everything you need to know about Chinese brush painting

This truly is the Chinese brush painting Bible; an awesome tutorial and guide to learning this art.

Beautiful book!

I was looking for a book on Chinese brush paintings that not only showed you how to to the painting technique, but also had a lot of different design motifs. well this is the book. It is a step-by-step book and has over 200 motifs that are beautifully illustrated. It shows you the finished painted motif and the steps to achieve it and each page has a sidebar of the paint colors you will need that not only tell you the color in words, such as pink, but has a small circle of the paint color too (great for a beginner) as well as the brushes that you will need for that particular motif. The best feature of the book is that it is spiral bound, so that it opens flat and stays flat while you are referring to it. It is a small book height (about the height of a hardback novel), but loaded with great illustrations and beautifully laid out.