Description
The vivid and varied calligraphic style of Chinese brush work comes from the combination of three things: a soft absorbent brush, soaked in strong Chinese or Indian ink, and the permeability of Chinese (rice) paper. The Chinese do not differentiate between brushes that are used for calligraphy and those used for painting. Besides brush handling another important skill that comes with practice is knowing how much to dilute the ink and how wet your brush should be. A variation of Chinese Brush Painting can be painted on watercolour paper. You will use a lot more water, because the surface isn’t soaked the same way as rice paper.
Chinese brushes are heavily starched to protect the hairs until they are purchased, so when they arrive the brush head is very rigid. Before use, the starch should be removed by soaking the brush head for a few minutes in room-temperature water and then washing the brush until the entire length of the brush hairs are fully loosened.
The white hair brush is the widest one in this set with the fullest belly; it is a soft pure Horse hair brush. brushes are popular in China. Horsehair is long, at least 2 inches in length. It is very absorbent and can be shaped into a fine point when wet. Goat hair has a natural inclination to stay together when wet and will, therefore, make it possible to maintain excellent control (after some practice). Few types of hair will hold up well or make good control possible when the direction of a brush stroke is changed 180 degrees without stopping, or without lifting the tip of the brush off the working surface. hair is very elastic and is one of the few hairs that will survive this type of treatment. They can be difficult for beginners to control but Horsehair soft brushes used skillfully will deliver very interesting and unpredictable lines.
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