Tiger Year 2010

Next lunar new year is a "Tiger" year. It is same as western Valentine's day on February 14, 2010. Man Luen Choon Tiger 2010 calendar is in progress of printing, once published, you may download here. Please email us which paintings or books that are good for your reference and would like to keep a copy now.
Try two books of Master of Lingnan artwork; Mr. Chao Shao An.

Book of Chinese Paintings for Beginners #11 tells you how to paint Animals including Tiger in Lingnan style in few steps. With English and Chinese description, good for practice.

Book of Lingnan style drawing Tiger techniques, 10 copies left.
20 pages of tiger freestyle paintings, tiger postures and in different size of paintings. Please order now for practice and reference use. Only in Chinese captions.

Guta Chinese Painting Colour Set

Long time no see, Guta Chinese painting colour set (12tubes). Finally got one full set with new look during trip and brought it back; Man Luen Choon's "limited edition" and many artists' favourite.

The Art of Calligraphy

薜平南・書の学び方
The Art of Calligraphy
The DVD collection has 11 chapters about Chinese Calligraphy.
About history, development, 6 scripts and the basic of calligraphy. Includes; The basics, Formal Script, Fast Script, Running Script, Square Script, Seal Script. Each chapter lasts for 48 minutes with subtitles selection in Chinese, English and Japanese.

Sold out.

Recommend: A good instruction for beginners and people who are very interested in Chinese Calligraphy. One of a limited choices that illustrates and explains about subject in English. Artist Bi also demonstrates at end of videos.
Artist Bi has expertise in both carving and calligraphy, and decades of experience in carving since 70s in Taiwan.

年中行事

黃山後海

Chinese calligraphy art materials for beginners?

We suggest you can try below items from Man Luen Choon:

• Small felt
• Chang Yi Brush (4.3x1.1cm)
• Orchid & Bamboo Large - Wolf hair (3.5x0.8cm)
• Chuang Lang Jin Hua Large - Mix Hair (3.1x0.9cm)
• 250ml Bottled Ink
• 2 3/4" Ceramic Dish
• 10"x20" 9 Sq. Small Cell Printed Grass Paper - 100 pcs/pk
• 12"x18" Plain Grass Paper - 200 pcs/pk
• 12" (12"x54") Thin Cotton - 100 pcs/pk

Chinese Art Supplies Forum

Man Luen Choon set up a new corner for visitors and buyers to browse antique and valued items such as ink stones and books. Just opened in July!

茅龍筆 (Mao Long Brush)

白沙茅龍筆
茅筆源於新會，為明代廣東最負盛名的理學家、詩人和書法家陳獻章首創。(http://www.manluenchoon.com/promo.html)
特徵: 茅鋒修長，富有彈性。
書法: 筆劃硬朗、蒼澀，牽絲與飛白相得益彰，帶有剛陽之氣。

茅龍筆多應用于書法，近來已有人研製國畫用筆，並探索茅龍筆國畫技法。只有在社會各界的關注和重視下，茅龍筆及其書法藝術這朵奇葩才能繼續發展。
據悉2009年，江門市近日將把茅龍筆與中國“文房四寶”一同申報世界非物質文化遺產。