An introduction to CBP video from CBPS member teacher Paul Maslowski.
Video Introduction to the Four Treasures and other tutorials by CBPS member teacher Ann Fairchild.
Written how-to tutorials by CBPS member teacher Jane Dwight:
- Little Birds
- Insects
- Chickens and Chicks
- Loading the Brush: peony & chrysanthemum
Videos of CBPS Honorary President Jane Evans ‘s demonstrations of roses and wisteria.
How-to introductions by CBPS Member teachers:
- Jean Long on flowers, chicks and a simple dragon
- Pauline Cherrett on materials and Buffalo
- Maggie Cross on the Four Gentlemen
Books to help you learn Meticulous Gongbi style:
- Three Books available from CBPS
- CBPS member Anne Allan’s Chinese Meticulous Painting – a practical guide to beautiful art is available online.
Guidance on mounting your paintings
Online videos
- Henry Li (Blue Heron Arts) is generally reliable
- Bamboo examples 1 & 2 & 3
- Good illustration of the triangular grouping of leaves
- Virginia Lloyd-Davies has beautiful brushwork
- She has a useful tutorial on how to improve an old painting
- Nan Rae is clear, detailed and left-handed
- Bamboo clear, detailed introduction parts 1 & 2, very good on leaves
- Famous Chinese painters and other videos in Chinese
- A video touring the Chinese collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York – a great overview of different media, periods, styles and imagery, and a glimpse of the richness of the Met’s collection
Blogs
- Follow my Brushmarks is a very informative blog by the wonderfully-named Reluctant Rat
- Joyful Brush is blog by painter and teacher Virginia Lloyd-Davies
- Patrick Siu has lots of interesting information and analyses of artworks
- Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy
- Christie’s has expertise in Chinese art:
- A guide to the creative and expressive art form of Calligraphy
- Collecting Guide: 7 things to know about Chinese traditional painting
- Chinese contemporary ink — the artists you should know