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Working with Chinese Wash Techniques

Author: Joe Broome

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This is what we are going to draw. It's called a "wash" when you use mostly water and just a little paint.
You can use a briquette of black tempera paint or the black liquid from a box. For our first projects we start with a simple palette of black and white.
You can use a fan brush if you have one but I'm going to mash a 1-inch brush so you can see that you don't have to have expensive materials.
Here are the three brushes I'm going to use. They are the same as the ones we use in the bamboo painting. The 1-inch flat brush is going to be spread like a fan brush. The size 1 and 7 hair brushes are used to fill and paint lines.

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