Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting: Using Ink and Water-Soluble Media

By Cheng Yan

Book Overview

This classic bestseller has been reissued with a striking new cover for a modern audience. Cheng Yan guides the artist through all the traditional techniques, illustrating how to create atmosphere and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903975190
• ISBN13: 9781903975190
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Search Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Really Informative

This book is probably one of the best for beginners who want to get a full grasp of how to load brushes with multiple colors, do sequential washes (both wet and dry), as well as lists a full set of materials required for the lesson. Some would argue that it doesn't show the full range of Chinese calligraphy styles available, but I'm saying this book was just what I was looking for. It has several very nice projects to choose from, and all of them are beautiful when finished. It focuses mostly on animals and plants, but is thorough none the less. I did have the privlidge of looking at this book in a bookstore first, before buying it online.

Wonderful Book

This is a wonderful book. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn Chinese Brush painting. Very beautiful work and easy instruction. One of my favorite art books.

This book is just wonderful!

I have half a dozen books on Sumi painting and this is my favorite. Mr. Yan is an extremely talented artist and the examples he uses to teach his techniques are just beautiful. He is very thorough in his explaning how to achieve various effects. I found his explanation of the role and significance of the traditional implements and supplies used in Chinese brush painting facinating. In summary, I learned many new things from this book even though I've been taking lessons for a year and read many other books.