Goldfish by Han Jia Xi

Watch as Han Jia Xi demonstrates how to paint Chinese goldfish. Segment from DVD 4 of a week long workshop with master painters Han Jia Xi and Wang Xing. Other subjects on this DVD include: banana leaf, sparrows, wisteria, chrysanthemum and peony. Available for purchase from http://Facebook.com/VirginiaLloydDavies

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Chinese brush painting
• sumi-e ink painting tutorial
• spontaneous style
• Chinese goldfish

[virginiald]

Han Jia Xi generally uses a medium weight, raw shuen rice paper, handmade by a local farmer. It's superb! Unfortunately, it's made in very small quantities and not available for export. In this 'Goldfish' excerpt he is painting on an album, where rice paper has been pasted to cardboard in a fold-out book. The pages are blank so painters can fill them. You get what you pay for so buy a good one. I recommend manluenchoon dotcom. They are based in Hong Kong and have great painting supplies.

[sailorsun16us]

this guy is really talented

[virginiald]

@sailorsun16us Check out his Youtube video of sparrows on my channel. He showed up one evening when some of us were practicing what he had taught us during the day; when he saw that we were still working, he started demonstrating all these little sparrows in different poses. As with all Chinese brush painting, you can't change or remove a stroke once it's on the rice paper - it has to be right the first time because the fibers of the paper are permanently colored.

[greenworks69]

what kind of paint is being used here?

[virginiald]

@greenworks69 Han Jia Xi is using Marie's Chinese watercolor paints in tubes and liquid black ink from a bottle. When I was trained by Ju I-Hsiung, the traditional way was to use chips of color created from vegetable and mineral dyes and to grind one's own ink with ink stick on inkstone. This is still the way in Taiwan among the master painters, but in China they prefer the quickest solution. There is some question about how permanent Marie's colors are. I use both chips and tubes.

[Robomonkey5000]

Riusuke Fukahori ftw!!!

[virginiald]

@Robomonkey5000 Riusuke Fukahori's work is awesome! A very different approach from spontaneous style Chinese brush painting, which is what Han Jia Xi specializes in.

[TheIkawatay]

Make it 3D like Riusuke Fukahori!!!

[fjc973]

Great ! thank you for posting !

[sciurusarcana]

I'd really like to know more about the paper being used.

[leisititine1]

Magnifique!

[alphawolfnami]

So pretty.. -ugly sob-

[Bigalinbklyn83]

@ScrobaticAex Agreed!

[ScrobaticAex]

@Bigalinbklyn83 Or even better, instead of them being so greedy, why don't they do the desired art themselves.