Thursday, January 04, 2007


It is very difficult to understand the intimacies of Qinghua without understanding the most important part and that is the brush. Every painter knows their brushes but in Jingdezhen brushes are still made the old way by hand and this gentleman came in during our demos to help us understand the fundamentals of brush making. Here we were able to understand what went into the brush and why certain brushes were used for specific applications. This was and incredible demonstration.