Chinese seal carving master Shay Pingnan

Many valuable Chinese calligraphy and painting work have seals stamped on them... An internationally renowned Chinese seal carving master, Master Shay demonstrated the typical processes of carving a seal. A good seal can take up to hours and days to compose the design and carve, recarve, redeign for perfection. A valuable seal adds value to one's Chinese painting or calligraphy while an average quality seal may affect the painter's or calligrapher's artistic reputation.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Chinese
• calligraphy
• painting
• seal
• seals
• zodiac
• symbols

[CustodesAstartes]

What's the white stuff he puts on at about 2:30? And why does he do it?

[sf108com]

@CustodesAstartes That's white powder for him to see the details more clearly, also for modification purposes perhaps.

[Thood618]

so beautiful! awesome!

[sf108com]

@Thood618 Thank you.

[AlanMolstad]

I have been looking a long time for a video that shows how to do this.

Thanks!

[sf108com]

Thanks. We will put this in our agenda.

[sailorcozmoz]

Fantastic!

[ChPaintingsNetwork]

Hi there,

We have added some tutorial of seal carving in our channel.