Chinese Brush Painting

Chinese Brush Painting Supplies

"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." Van Gough

Chinese brush painting supplies can be a bit tricky to find, particularly if you don't live in a large city. Here are some excellent sources for brush painting supplies.

Brush painting must be done with the Chinese color and specific brushes for brush painting. If you try to substitute Western watercolor brushes and paints you will not get the same results. Western brushes are just not cut in a way that will produce the desired results when used with brush painting techniques.

I've actually scoured art stores in a very large city in my area without a lot of luck. One of the best sources for Chinese color and other brush painting supplies that I have found is Blick Art Materials . From their home page, click on the letter S in the alphabet at the top of the site, scroll down to the Sumi Painting link and click; you'll find plenty of brush painting supplies there.

You can also find a handful of people selling Chinese color and brushes for Chinese painting on Ebay. The links below will take you directly to eBay sellers who supply Chinese color, brushes, paper and other brush painting supplies.