Chinese Painting Beginner's Tutorial - Level 1 (Part 1)

Author: Cao Honggang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Chinese painting is a painting with Chinese national characteristics, which uses special tools and materials to depict all things in nature based on Chinese culture. It has a long history and has long formed a unique national painting system. Chinese painting can be divided into landscape painting, which takes mountains, waters, and trees as the main subject, figure painting, which takes people as the main subject, and flower-and-bird painting, which takes flowers, birds, insects, and fish as the main subject. In terms of form, Chinese painting can be divided into line drawings (baimiao), which are colored on the basis of line drawings (gongbi), and large and small freehand paintings that focus on expressing the spirit and temperament.