Some more practice ducks from my attempts to learn some Chinese painting techniques. I like these two guys so I cut them out pasted them in my sketchbook.
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My first attempt at a “Chinese” style painting. Actually, I’ll be honest and admit that I pieced this together from my practice paintings. I’ve been teaching myself some Chinese painting techniques from library books (which I can’t read because they are in Chinese). To practice I did a whole sheet of just rocks, just ducks, just trees, etc. I cut these up to put my favorites into my sketchbook, and then I realized that if I arranged and glued them on to another piece of rice paper they go together rather seamlessly. I like this technique until I get the skills to do a whole painting from start to finish.
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Herbert Kohl, the founder of Teachers' and Writers' Collaborative, has written more than forty books, including A View from the Oak, which he wrote with his wife, Judith, and which won the National Book Award for children's literature. In his newest book, Painting Chinese: A Lifelong Teacher Gains the Wisdom of Youth, Kohl describes his journey into the unfamiliar terrain of aging as he searches
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Life is looking pretty dreary for the orphans of the Windcity orphanage and cheese factory. They work excruciating shifts producing the most foul cheese on the earth (2 ounces make you hallucinate. 3 ounces will kill you) and to top it all of they mu
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