Fifty Examples of Creation: Scroll Page Edition

Author: Yang Xianjin
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This series is divided into five main categories—scrolls, square frames, fan surfaces, round borders, and booklets—each with a specific format. Each category features depictions in three styles: flowers and birds, landscapes, and figures, totaling fifteen volumes. Each volume contains fifty self-drawn examples by the author, providing guidance on aspects such as paper and brush preparation, composition arrangement, painting process, seal appreciation, and artwork reviews. It also includes methods for folding paper, inscribing titles, using seals, common painting knowledge, and an anthology of poetry for painting, all to enhance its practicality. This series aims to offer practical technical guidance and specific references for learners, but true mastery requires readers to practice tirelessly. It is not to suggest that guidance equips one with a universal key. To think that this alone can lead to artistic excellence is impossible. If one relies solely on books, they may as well not read any at all!