One of the things that drew me to the Chinese style of ink wash painting is the beautiful landscape scenes. One of the first such scenes I recall seeing was of a Lu Dongbin [呂洞賓], the de facto leader of the Eight Immortals, under a tree with mountains behind him. It looked nothing like this […]
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After the eagle, I tried a few other birds. Most of them weren’t very good. Finally, I decided I wanted to try painting cranes. Many of the crane paintings I have seen are beautiful. Again, I had just purchased some colored ink, so I tried using color. The painting isn’t bad, but I have a
I had tried painting eagles and other birds a few times. None were very good, but they weren’t horrible either. When the Philadelphia Eagles won the 2017 season NFC Championship and we knew they were headed to the Super Bowl, I figured I would give it another shot. I had just purchased colored ink and
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