Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques for Watercolor

He has authored three books for North Light: Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors (2000); Chinese Watercolor Techniques for Painting Animals (2005); and Chinese Watercolor Techniques for Exquisite Flowers (2009). He was a featured artist in several of North Light's Painter's Quick Reference series books and has self-produced 12 step-by-step DVDs on both traditional and Chinese watercolor painting. About the AuthorLian Quan Zhen is an award-winning artist and teacher of watercolor and Chinese painting both nationally and abroad. Visit lianspainting.

Interesting premise to mix the east and west painting techniques Parka [[VIDEOID:mo3AT2TY8ZMTZ30]]This book from artist and teacher Lian Quan Zhen is a guide on combining traditional Chinese painting and modern watercolour techniques. An interesting premise.The book includes 12 demonstrations and 17 step-by-step tutorials. Those examples are quite detailed and you can clearly see what's going on. Quite amazing to see how he turns mundane looking reference photos into beautiful works.With Chinese painting, rules are more relaxed. For instance, there's no so called per. OK Sunsprite I was so anxious to see this book that I pre-ordered it months before it was released. There are many interesting facts in the book, particularly the descriptions of the different styles of Chinese history and their origins but the instructive portions of the book were not as helpful as I had hoped. It is still worth reading and Zhen is a truly gifted artist but it is not as instructive for artists as I expected.. daolin said I love Chinese landscape. I love Chinese landscape. The book teaches painting techniques in great detail. It has many lovely paintings and painting lessons from the author. It really makes me want to just learn all I can to be able to do something like these.

Minimum stroke - maximum effectLearn how to make each brushstroke count when painting classically beautiful landscapes using a combination of traditional and modern watercolor techniques.Master artist and teacher Lian Quan Zhen shows how to blend Eastern and Western art theories, materials and techniques to create landscapes with graceful simplicity.Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques for Watercolor includes 27 start-to-finish demonstrations, which show how to capture the spirit and mood of the landscape in all types of weather and in all four seasons. It also features a wide variety of landscape subjects from America and around the world.

He was a featured artist in several of North Light's Painter's Quick Reference series books and has self-produced 12 step-by-step DVDs on both traditional and Chinese watercolor painting. He has authored three books for North Light: Chinese Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors (2000); Chinese Watercolor Techniques for Painting Animals (2005); and Chinese Watercolor Te