Includes index

Introduction & foreword -- A brief history of Chinese landscape painting -- Five Chinese landscape styles -- Western painting vs. Chinese traditional painting -- 1.Tools and techniques for Chinese painting -- 2. Tools and techniques for watercolor painting -- 3.Composition & perspective -- 4. Depict the four seasons in Chinese painting style -- 5. Capture the moods of landscapes in watercolor -- 6. Plein air painting -- Conclusion

Learn how to make each brushstroke count when painting classically beautiful landscapes using a combination of traditional and modern watercolor techniques. Master artist and teacher Lian Quan Zhen shows how to blend Eastern and Western art theories, materials and techniques to create landscapes with graceful simplicity. Chinese Landscape Painting Techniques for Watercolor includes 27 start to finish demonstrations, which show how to capture the spirit and mood of the landscape in all types of weather and in all four seasons. It also features a wide variety of landscape subjects from America and around the world