Sumi Painting Books

Here is the perfect beginner's guide to the ancient art form of Chinese brushwork. It explores how to create Chinese brush paintings, covering basic concepts and techniques, such as choosing brushes, different brushstrokes and techniques, composition, and development.

<cite>Chinese Brush Painting</cite> illustrates several techniques with different tools, brushwork, and color-mixing. Step-by-step projects teach both basic skills and more complicated compositions and color applications. Mei Ruo. Paperback. 236 pages. 7-1/4" x 10-1/4".

Explore the ancient technique of Japanese ink painting in <cite>The Art and Technique of Sumi-e.</cite> This wonderful resource contains extensive explanations of technique as well as detailed painting instructions and diagrams.

Learn the age-old art of Chinese ink painting with <cite>The Spirit of the Brush.</cite> Chinese brush painting is one of the oldest continually practiced art forms in the world. Its minimalist approach continues to have enormous appeal.

For painting elegant trees, flowers, and animals in classic style of Japan. Shows basic brush strokes. Effective intro to graceful simplicity of Sumi-e. Graphic instructions. Paperback, 128 pages. (Yolanda Mayhall).