The art of painting has a rich, centuries-long history and serves as a perfect medium for artists to translate their feelings and ideas onto canvas. A crucial tool for any painter is indeed the ...

Sifting through bags of goat hairs to select quality ones for the production of Chinese ink brushes can be tough and boring, but this is routine work for Zhang Wennian, 50, who is an inheritor of the ...

What do you think of when you think of traditional Chinese ink painting? To start with, ink on paper and silk. Then, century upon century of graceful, languid calligraphy and dreamy landscapes and ...

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Dong Yinghua works on a splash-ink landscape painting at his studio in Beijing. [Photo/China Daily] In the process, he gradually formed his own understanding of art, and his works gradually showed ...

Wang Xijing is a famous painter specializing in realist portraits. Wang had an important turning point in 2000, transferring toward contemporary figure painting. The year also marked a revival of ink ...

An artisan shows one of the best writing brushes produced by the Shanlian Huzhou Ink Brush Factory (YANG YANG / CHINA DAILY) A short soft brush connected to a long hard handle, both vigorous and ...

HEFEI, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Sifting through bags of goat hairs to select quality ones for the production of Chinese ink brushes can be tough and boring, but this is routine work for Zhang Wennian, 50, ...