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Inkston Oriental Art June Update
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We are bringing you this month's update from London where we are enjoying the early English summer - please let us know if you have any recommendations for arty places to go and people to meet in London or if you would like to join us for tea.
In this edition:
  • We've redesigned Inkston.com - on our new homepage and menus, you will find information much more easily: visit: Inkston Oriental Arts and Materials. We've also made it easier to post and share images on the community forums, events and listings.
  • More articles and pictures about Bird and Flower painting below with Bird painting tips from the classic Mustard Seed Garden and a piece on Emperor Huizong's contribution to the art
  • More unusual handmade papers! This time Corn Silk and Mulberry.

Bird Painting Techniques from Mustard Seed Garden
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Knowing bird painting techniques is quite important if you want to paint well Chinese painting. This post we made quite a lot of notes from Mustard Seed Garden and extra tips demonstrated by Chinese bird painting artist Wu Peng 吴蓬. Cover picture is the famous Gold Pheasant and Cotton Rose Flowers by Emperor Huizong of Song (1082 - 1135). We are sure you will learn something new from this article.

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Emperor Huizong of Song and His Work of Art
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Emperor Huizong, personal name Zhao Ji, was in reign from 1100 to 1126. Although he has never been considered as a good ruler, he has been thought to be one of the best artists in whole Chinese history. Besides a set of Emperor Huizong's best art works, in this post you will also see a lecture done by Professor James Cahill on Bird and Flower Painting: Emperor Huizong and After.
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5 USD Offer: Gongbi Painting Practice Book - Beijing Opera Face and Famous Chinese Flower & Bird Paintings
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These are very helpful sets of famous Chinese Gongbi paintings. The detailed sketch is already printed on cooked Gongbi Xuan papers. One set has 5 or 15 paintings (Beijing Opera Face has 15, while Famous Chinese Flower & Bird Paintings 5.). It helps students of Gongbi paintings to understand how to paint Gongbi style paintings.
How it works?
Use a set of Gongbi brushes to fill in proper colours according to the pictures which are how these paintings look like.
Beijing Opera Face
Famous Flower and Bird Painting

New Special Papers

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Corn Silk Paper

This is fine 30.6 gsm paper, in 70 * 138 cm. Natural corn silk is added in the paper’s raw materials.
It is suitable for calligraphy, small scale Xie Yi style painting. The paper itself is raw paper but it shows effects of ‘half-cooked’ Xuan paper. The paper edge is not trimmed.
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Natural Beige Cloud Dragon Mulberry Paper

This is fine 32.6 gsm paper, in 70 * 138 cm.
It is suitable for calligraphy, small scale Xie Yi style painting. The paper itself is raw paper but it shows effects of ‘half-cooked’ Xuan paper. The paper edge is not trimmed.
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