Chinese Brush Painting: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide

Try your hands at these historically and culturally important methods, and create some beautiful paintings of your own.

Chinese painting is an ancient art that has evolved and become refined over many centuries. Artists brush ink and color pigments onto silk or paper using a variety of techniques, with two main approaches: gongbi a traditional and realistic style based on line drawing, and xieyi style, a freehand method that uses fewer strokes to suggest objects in a less literal way.

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