This is the result of my irritance with Maries Paints.
Sick of the ruin and money waste of Maries inability to sell non-exploding paint tubes I have decided the extra expense of Sakura is worth it. Tricky to come by but I think inkston.com sell them also, you pay a little extra but hopefully inkston.com can find some 12 tube boxes.
ALSO with the 24 tube set you get one tube of GOLD PAINT. Which is Gold Leaf and sparkles like diamonds in all colours including your black ink.
The reason I have changed is because I got tired of the lacking quality of packaging from Maries.
IF YOU ARE NEW to the Chinese Arts IF you are ok with the cost increase I would recommend Sakura paints. They are mineral which means they are NOT dyes so by majority of use they mix perfectly with the soot carbon granules of Chinese Soot Ink but moreover they do NOT seperate from the ink when the water pulls it through the fibres of the paper. It will “tide” exactly like the ink does.
The benefit of this is that the soot does NOT get left behind while the water pulls the colour through the paper fibres leaving a pale colour stain all the way to the edge of the water “tide”. Which happens with Western paints.
Another reason why traditionalistically I ONLY use Chinese materials for my Chinese Art because the Chinese were creating these materials thousands of years before the west and they know how it’s done.
My oppinion of Sakura paints in use?
The colours are incredibly opaque. What this means is that you use less paint. Because it has incredible covering power.
Also the radiance of the subtle pastels colours is beautiful. Its a real joy to mix and watch the reuslts in the bowl and then see it on the paper.
The “light-fastness” of the paints is reported to be about 98% fast across the spectrum. Which you would expect with mineral based colours.
And for those intrigued with my Foo Dog seal case….. here he is dissected. 🙂
I have not put any seal paste in the bowl yet as I have not cut the stones.
This is another reason getting out into China is worth it because you just see so many things that are NOT on the market to the West.
I hope this post was useful to someone who takes the Chinese Arts as seriously as we do.
Best wishes…
Neil Armstrong.
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