Copybooks for Chinese painting

	Price
Mustard seed Master painter techniques Children's series	$ 320.00 $ 108.00 $ 36.00

The training of Chinese painting starts from making imitations after copybooks. From as early as the seventh century, copybooks in charted practically every stroke that is possible to make for a particular subject, giving beginners plenty of ideas of how a painting is created. The old style copybooks were hand-printed in black and white. The illustrations were transferred and carved in relief on jujube wood and then printed on dampened rice papers that was allowed to dry and thread bind. Thanks to modern printing technology the latest publications feature colored plates that have made the illustration of subtle shade possible.