Chinese Artist painting outdoors

This is a great example of watercolour at its ‘purest’. The artist - Chiu Man Kum, a Hongkong based water colourist is in deep concentration here. When you study him, you can see he is really working quickly, but more to the point - accurately. Watercolour IS a very skilled medium, lets not ‘beat round the bush’  here. For it to be transparent, fresh and  clear, you need patients and lots of hours behind the brush. When fine tuned - the results are outstanding. I love the Chinese artists. I have never mentioned them in my blogs, but, i really have admired them along time ago. Their dedication and purity are honed to almost perfection. When i say purity - i mean, they DON’T use masking fluid, agents, an array of different ‘in fashion brushes’ and the latest easels. What they use is a very limited colour,brushes, or A brush and sometimes an easel…depending. Take a long hard look at this guy working - its so simple to look at - but doing this is really a labour of love.

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