Chinese landscape painting

Author: Chen Zhiming (Illustrator and Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Landscape painting is a major category in Chinese painting. In addition to landscape painting, there are other genres such as flower-and-bird painting, figure painting, vegetable-and-fruits painting, animal painting, and insect-and-fish painting. However, landscape painting has always been deeply loved by people. To learn landscape painting, one should start with basic exercises like drawing rocks or trees, becoming familiar with the fundamental techniques of various mountains, rocks, trees, types of stone, leaves, trunks, and so on. The best approach is to memorize these techniques and be able to draw them from memory. Then, freely combine the individual mountains, rocks, trees, and plants in your mind to create a work. This book is primarily intended to provide foundational knowledge and painting techniques for beginners and enthusiasts of landscape painting.