One of the nation’s top landscape artists is featured in a new exhibition at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre. The work of Takao Tanabe is being shown in Sumie: Ink Brush Paintings circa ...

HEFEI, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Sifting through bags of goat hairs to select quality ones for the production of Chinese ink brushes can be tough and boring, but this is routine work for Zhang Wennian, 50, ...

Japanese calligraphy, or shodo, is an ancient art that marries beauty with precision. From writing beautiful characters to ...

Adobe Brush’s premise is simple: You place anything on a white piece of paper. You take its photo. And then, after you pull various sliders to denote size and contrast, you turn it into a custom ...

Chen Ching-tsung (陳景聰), who has been making calligraphy brushes for more than 50 years, said he sees himself as a “a life-long warrior-artisan” and wants to attract young brush makers to preserve the ...

The ink brush is an essential tool in Chinese calligraphy. Many famous artists even have brushes made exclusively for them. Brush-making skills are passed on through generations.

A brush can reveal a dot, a line, the sun, the moon, mountains, rivers, wind and everything people can sense in the world, slender or thick, big or small, concrete or abstract.

Li Keran's ink-brush landscape, Lijiang River, is being shown at the National Museum of China. [Photo provided to China Daily] New exhibition highlights the stunning bout of creativity unleashed ...