Chinese animal painting has a long estab-lished tradition that is being vigorouslycarried forward and enhanced by contempo-rary masters.Specially prepared for Western readers withmore than 300 illustrations, this manual intro-duces the basic concepts of Chinese animalpainting. The step-by-step guide for painting adozen animals provides an easy approach tothis great tradition. Different styles and tech-niques are clarified in this manual to show theimmense variety of expression which exists inChinese animal painting and to prepare thereader for the innovative creation of paintings.
Gong Chunhu(1954), the secre-tary-general of China Horse PaintingAssociation, has spent decades in rais-ing and painting horses. His workshave been featured by the China Ra-dio International in 43 languages.
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Glimpse into Chinese Animal Painting
Tools
How to Use Your Tools and Materials
Looking Under the Skin of Animals
Copying Masterpieces
Sketching from Life and from Memory
Steps for Painting Birds
Steps for Painting Four-footed Animals
The Horse, a thorough study (Gong Chunhu)
The Cat- free style on unsized paper (Gao Zhanguo)
The Lion, the Tiger and the Mouse- free style on unsized paper (Mi Xiubin)
The Snow Leopard, the Pomeranian Dog and the Tiger Cub- meticulous style on unsized paper (Tang Jian)
More Animals- free style on unsized paper (Wen Jingen)
Appendix:
1.Flattening and framing； minimum backing of a painting
2.Shops for good art works, artists' tools and materials
3.Bibiography
