Landscape painting

[riekjecares]

Does any one know a good book for practising landscapes, esspecially the layers on the mountains I want to learn better.

Riekje

[hanayama]

Hi!

I have a few books to recommend for learning landscapes – both Chinese and Japanese.

1.  Oriental Painting Course – Wang Jia Nan and Cai Xiaoli with Dawn Young

2.  Chinese Brushwork in Calligraphy and Painting – Kwo Da-Wei

3.  Complete Sumi-e Techniques – Sadami Yamada – he also has a separate publication just for Sumi-e landscape painting.

4. The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting – Mai-mai Sze

I have all these books myself plus quite a few more – I refer to all of them depending on whether I am working on calligraphy or sumi-e.

Best of luck!

[罗雁 LuoYan]

Dear hanayama, thanks for sharing these books! They are really nice! 🙂 We have The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting for sale in our shop too.  The first volume is landscape painting tutorial.

Chieh Tzu Yuan Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden 芥子园画传 single book

[罗雁 LuoYan]

And, learning landscape painting by observing and copying famous landscape paintings is also a very good way to learn these artists’ special techniques.

For example, Tang Dai’s landscape paintings.

唐岱 Tang Dai Album of Landscapes (Qing Dynasty)

 

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