Book: Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Chinese sumi-e water color painting (芥子园画谱)

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Note 1. This book includes both colorful pages and black and white pages. You can check the photos for more details.2. This book is in Chinese. But it does contains a lot of step-by-step illustrations. So it is easy for a non-Chinese reader to learn painting with it. Introduction Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (芥子园画谱) is no doubt the most popular sumi-e water color painting manual in Chinese history. It was firstly published at Qing Dynasty 300+ years ago and being re-published again and again till today. It guided and inspired tremendous Chinese painting masters during the 300 years. It is a comprehensive manual which covers every subjects Chinese sumi-e painting: Figures, Birds, Animals, Insects, Rocks, Trees, Rivers, Mountains, Buildings, Flowers and etc.Specifications Volume 1: Trees, RocksVolume 2: Human, Animals, Buildings, Landscape, Painting examplesVolume 3: Orchid, Bamboo and PlumVolume 4: Chrysanthemum, Birds, Flowers and Insects, Painting examples Size: 8.5" x 10.5" x 2" Total pages: 512