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Waina

Biography Waina Cheng was born in Lanzhou, China and brought up in Singapore. She began formal training at the age of eight with Chinese master painter Dr Chen Wen Hsi...

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Van Gogh reimagined by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi

Bet you weren’t expecting this:

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British Museum talks

If you are passing through London, check the British Museum calendar at: http://ift.tt/1RJdRCO

The Gallery talk’s have some interesting and relevant topics like:

• Mounting Japanese prints
• Chinese ceramic glazes and the meaning of colour
• Introduction to the Chinese displays in Room 33
• Modern Chinese design: a talk by artist Qiong Er Jiang (蒋琼耳)

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The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Museo del Prado. Madrid 10/25/2017

The Spirit of Painting. Cai Guo-Qiang at the Museo del Prado. Madrid 10/25/2017 – 3/4/2018

Modern Chinese art in Spain!  “Cai Guo-Qiang is the first contemporary artist to create on-site at the Prado. This is his first solo exhibition solely focused on painting in over 30 years.”

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Reply To: inktober

I have not had as much time for Inktober this year as I’d hoped, but here is a drawing I did at the start using ink from the Jin Bu Yi ink stick. (Touch of gold on the crown is Finetec gold watercolor paint.)

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Record prices for contemporary artworks in ink at auctions in Hong Kong

A review of 5 artists who appear to be favoured by collectors by SCMP, 24/Oct/2017:

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‘Mustard Seed Garden III’ (2010) by Yang Jiechang, is featured in the ‘The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+’ exhibition.

 

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Kate Steenhauer

This amazing summer at Opera Holland Park I followed acclaimed conductor Matthew Waldren alongside City of London Sinfonia during rehearsals for a Puccini production. The fluidity of the environment inspired me to...

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RaggedyBird.com Studio – RaggedyDragon.com Gallery

RAGGEDYBIRD.com With a strict focus on Traditional Lingnan (Chao Shao-an) style I feel my own path is worthy of being shared to those who wish also to follow such “correct”...

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Second layer, mounting.

I just ordered, mountingpaper, i just read that you have to do two layers. How much time has to be between the layers. And is the proces the same? And is it than ready to frame it?

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Reply To: flowers and butterfly

Hi all painters this was done on the inkston decorated Xuan paper unmounted type it’s very nice to paint on  the lines showing on the picture is from the camera angle ,

Raz.

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Reply To: Best brush for Yan (颜) style

Sorry, I cannot find which type of white cloud brush you have from Inkston. We have one set of Red Star white cloud brushes and one set of Inkston traditional white cloud brush. For me, yes, both sets are not big enough for the 10cm characters.

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Reply To: Best brush for Yan (颜) style

Hi Amr,

Sorry for replying late! I normally like using weasel hair brush to do Yan’s regular script style (*smaller size) because weasel hair is stiff and therefore, for me I feel it is easy to control the flow of strokes in order to make all the strokes flowing regularly and under control. And, I particular like the special elegant feeling of small size regular scripts, especially Zhao MengFu’s style. (Well, the calligraphy style is really a very personal preference. 🙂 )

For the combination hair brush you mentioned, I tested some Combination Hair brushes for this 10cm size and found that this set suits me well.

Red Star 狼羊兼毫 Jian Hao “Wolf-Wool” Combination Brush Set

For me, I like the #2 and #3 for size of 10 cm. The #2’s brush hair size is 5.3 * 1.2 cm and the #3 is 4.3 * 1 cm. The Red Star official guide recommends these combination hair brushes for both regular scripts and grass cursive scripts. This also works fine for semi-cursive,  certainly.

The Zi Hao Rabbit hair brush you have is a bit too stiff to do the style you want. I like using that brush for small scale regular script. And I particular like using it for painting. 🙂 The hair size for your brush is only 3 * 0.7 cm. It is a bit too small for the 10cm size calligraphy. 🙂

Hope this is helpful! And sorry for being late on this reply because I needed some time to try out these brushes. 🙂

kindest regards,

Yan

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Reply To: Best brush for Yan (颜) style

Hi Yan,

Thank you for the help. I mainly practice 10cm characters, I am not sure what the best size for copying DuoBao Pagoda, but this seemed like a good size based on the quality of the details in the work.

I am still wondering if there is anything specific about Yan style in terms of brush selection.

Thanks!

Amr

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Chinese Colours

Inkston supplies the finest traditional colours available from Jiang SiXu Tang and Old Hu Kai Wen: Colour chips from Jiang SiXu Tang Colour inksticks from Old Hu Kaiwen Ink Workshop...

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Atelier MeiMei-Art

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Old Hu Kai Wen 胡开文 and Li Ting Gui 李廷珪 Inksticks

The story of the old Hu Kai Wen ink workshop and Li Ting Gui ancient inks still made today in old Huizhou in Anhui province. Over 80 varieties now on sale.

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Jade Seal paste box

Nice Jade seal paste box sold at auction for $37,900USD:

You can’t get Jade things like this any more.

You can get nice designer ceramics though:

Ceramic Reservoir/Pot for Seal Paste or Ink

 

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Reply To: Color background

I hope i did it right, if it works, this is a video from Nan Rae, about a misty backgound.

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Medicine Ink – Hu Kai Wen ink kills cancer in mice..

Recently scientists are have successfully tested the ability of Hu Kai Wen ink to kill cancer cells in mice: see medical scientific paper and report by sciencealert.

Actually black ink is a traditional ingredient in chinese medicine and many instick recipes also include medicinal ingredients.  The most expensive Old Hu Kai Wen ink per gram is 药墨 Yao Mo Pearl Medicine Black Inkstick:

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At under $15USD it’s not the most expensive inkstick in the collection but at 2.7 grams it is the most expensive per gram.   It’s a black carbon based ink which includes pearl and other precious and medicinal ingredients and is covered with gold powder.  Follow the link above to read more about it or read the article on historic ink recipes.

Please note:

• Inkston are not scientists or doctors and our notes are for cultural and historic interest only, not medical advice.
• We don’t advise eating ink.  Especially mineral colours such as Vermillion, Realgar, Orpiment Red/Orange/Yellow colours which are traditionally made from Mercury and Arsenic sulphides.

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Reply To: painting three faces of a rock in Chinese painting

It is a traditional way of depicting rocks – if you have ever seen the method in the Mustard Seed Garden book, that is very useful.  Another wonderful book I treasure discusses the 3 faces very well and it is how I learned to think about rocks – I have taken the explanation from this book for you.

Oriental Painting Course

Wang Jia Nan and Cai Xiaoli, with Dawn Young

Think of rocks as having 3 aspects:

1 front part, facing the sun, is dry and rough

2 side, in shadow, is wet/shaded

3 top, is thin.

This gives rocks a 3 dimensional affect. A side brush technique is used, and rocks are given different textures with specific brush techniques.  These you can research, as many books like the ones above, give much detail.  Good luck!

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"Learn of the pine from the pine.."

I learned this expression from reading haiku poetry – it is a quote by Basho, a famous haiku poet. I live in Canada, and we have many wonderful plant and animal species to inspire artists.  I believe that one must see and feel to understand the essence of something. Only painting from photographs or copying subjects that are not native to our environment is difficult and often yields unsatisfactory results. We can’t quite comprehend the important elements or ‘thusness’ of the thing.

It is not that I don’t practice with more exotic material, such as the lotus, which is cultivated in some parts of Canada, mostly on the west coast, but I focus on what I see outside my window – a mountain, a pine tree, a chrysanthemum, etc. I take a lot of photographs of plants and animals, which are my favourite subjects. I also get inspiration for abstract work from things that have become part of the earth, although they are not necessarily organic.  See the picture attached!.

I pulled this object from my lake in the northern mountains, and put it on a rock to photograph it. It is very old and shortly after it disintegrated into bits.

I later found out that it was once part of a steering wheel of a Model T Ford, from the early 1900s! There is a funny story attached to this also,

But when I saw it, to me it looked like one of the many ensos  (Zen circles) that I paint. See what you think!

 

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Reply To: "SU" ink vs Fresh ink

Hi Raymond,

Thanks, this is exactly the information I needed to understand the use of Su ink.  I will give this a try with my best sticks- I would imagine that quality ink sticks are better to make good Su ink with. Thank you!

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Reply To: Paper for Suminagashi technique

Hi starseed, I haven’t tried suminagashi myself yet. People use rice paper *which is named as Xuan paper on Inkston. In theory, you can try any Xuan paper on inkston. However if I try, I would like to use sized Shu xuan paper or Wen Zhou pi paper because I like to get more detailed fine lines between colours. Wen Zhou Pi paper is a very strong and flexible paper due to the high percentage of Mulberry fiber.

Wenzhou Pi Paper 皮纸

INKSTON Gongbi Plus, Sized Xuan Paper

Since using paper is a very personal preference, I would say a set of xuan paper samples would be good for you to find more possibilities. 🙂

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Inkstick Recipes through History

China has over 2000 years history of using and making inksticks. The industry reached its heights in the Ming and Qing Dynasty when methods were most refined and a lot special formulas...

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Reply To: Best brush for Yan (颜) style

For KaiShu Regular Script, you can consider these brushes:

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Reply To: "SU" ink vs Fresh ink

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Raymond Cheng It depends on what you want to do with it, ink left overnight tend to be more solid and less transparent, i use it to write larger size calligraphy, and find it helps the brush strokes go freer…..

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Reply To: Best brush for Yan (颜) style

Dear Amr, thanks for your question! Generally speaking, brush hair type and brush hair size are two important elements we need to consider when we choose brush. 🙂 We recommend to choose different size brush for different size of calligraphy. Also different type of brush hair is normally more suitable for one type of calligraphy/ painting than other hair types.

1, Brush Hair Type: From the information you have provided, we can decide the brush hair type. For this calligraphy style you have described, we recommend you to try combination hair brush. This is weasel hair combined with goat hair. Sometimes, Red Star *professional brush uses some very rare hair type too.

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2, Brush Hair Size: After we decide the brush type, then we need to decide brush hair size. This is also why you can find different sizes for the brush hair. Inkston also marks each brush hair size. 🙂 For most of our brushes, we have added the ‘suitable for’ section for people to know which type of calligraphy/ painting this brush would work best.

Could you tell us what is the size of the calligraphy you are practicing now? We need this to find a proper brush hair size.

 

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Best brush for Yan (颜) style

Hi all,

I’m working on copying some of Yan Zhenqing’s DuoBao stele characters (颜真卿 – 多寶塔碑).

I am having some trouble with brushes. I have some very nice white cloud brushes from inkston, but they are a little too short/fat to do the effects. The brush I use most is a long mixed hair brush that seems to do a decent job, but sometimes I feel like I need a little more taper. This is an example from my usual practices (there are some issues obviously, but it is representative of the effects of my current brush).

Is there generally a brush that is especially recommended for copying Yan’s old standard script like the DuoBao Pagoda?

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Paper for Suminagashi technique

Hi,  Can you tell me which papers are best for the Suminagashi technique p;ease.

 

 

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Pedro Molina

Me involucre en el arte chino viajando a Beijing dos veces, gracias al taichí (arte que practico a diario) conocí esta gran ciudad. Allí conocí a mi primer  maestro de...

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Chinese Ink – traditional handmade inksticks

Inkstick introduction Chinese ink is produced in stick form rather than liquid, so it lasts for generations without drying out.  To use the ink, the stick is rubbed on an inkstone...

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