Chinese Bamboo Painting

This is a piece of ink bamboo showing amply the wet brush technique of the painter. He added a bit of glue in light ink to paint the bamboo stalk, making it light, full, and strong. The bamboo leaves, thick and thin, are painted with lively ink. The brushes are sharp, bringing out the characteristics of wet brush- one has to know exactly what one wants to paint and paint it in one go. The elegant stone in light ink, moss and grass slope in thick ink are alternately sparse and dense-just right, and showing the consummate skill of the painter. In his Chinese painting, we can somehow see light green in the light ink on the bamboo stalk.