Japanese Painting: All About Glue – Types & How-To【Art Guide】
Glue is vital in Japanese painting, essential to its authenticity. This detailed 10,000-word article delves deep into its use, with a helpful contents table.
Glue is vital in Japanese painting, essential to its authenticity. This detailed 10,000-word article delves deep into its use, with a helpful contents table.
Many of you may have had Japanese painting glue or picture plates harden into a jelly-like substance, making it impossible to paint. In this article, we will introduce a useful item that will eliminate that stress from your production!
Explore dosa application in Japanese painting, including methods and making a Kano-style sketchbook, illustrated for easy understanding, with tools listed.
Japanese painting highly values sketching and often discourages using cameras. This article explores why sketching is key in this art form.
When you think of famous Japanese painters, does Hokusai come to mind? But Japanese art is more than just that. This article introduces the history of Japanese art, especially Japanese painting, while also showing its relation to Chinese painting.
Learn the right way to make dosa solution to prevent color issues in Japanese-style painting, as explained in 'Tansei Shinan', a Kano school technique guide.
One of the problems of painting watercolor and Japanese-style paintings is “blotting. If the paint blurs, the color of the paint becomes poor and the line drawing becomes thicker, which is a problem. This time, we will review how it feels to use a painting medium called “Multi Sizing (dosa solution, anti-bleeding)” that solves this...
Explore the Kano school, pinnacle of Japanese painting, through 'Tansei Shinan', a Taisho-era book by Shujo Ichikawa, reviving lost techniques.
When painting Japanese-style paintings, we sometimes encounter “paint and gohun(white pigment by shell) peeling. In the case of gohun, is often that the glue did not soak into the entire gohun, and that too many layers of gohun were applied. In the case of mineral pigments, the flaking is due to the use of a...
Discover the Kano school's secrets in 'TANSEI SHINAN', a translated Japanese painting guide from 100 years ago, revealing their long-held techniques and history