20180909 Goddess of Mercy Temple, Pitt Street, Penang

Sep 9, 2018

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in Architecture, Chinese Ink & Watercolour, Tools

Tags — 2018, Goddess of Mercy Temple, half imperial long, Penang, Pitt Street

This sketch was done with bamboo pen instead of twig pen with Chinese ink on watercolour paper. The bamboo pen is bought from art material shop but i sharpened one side of the nib to very thin like a mini size oil painting knife. It’s the same method as how i sharpen my twig pen (like i always show in the workshop). Bamboo pen is harder compare to twig pen and produced thinner and more solid lines. I love to work with more details recently and this bamboo pen is ideal to work with. I also DIY some bamboo pens using old broken Chinese painting brushes.

The Chinese ink used for the sketch also not the brand which i normally use. The type i tried this time is “Sumi Drawing Ink” that i get from DAISO, it’s also water proof after completely dry on paper. I added watercolour wash as you can see in the final sketch.

Size: 28 x 76 cm
Media: Chinese ink & watercolour on paper

2 responses to “20180909 Goddess of Mercy Temple, Pitt Street, Penang”

Rolf Hofmann

2018-09-17

Hello Kiah, first of all I would like to thank you for your inspiration. Because I liked your pictures so much, I dealt intensively with the technology. It took a long time before I got a reasonably easy stroke. Even today, my “European accuracy” often bothers me. But I can say that the confrontation with your art has brought me much further. Unfortunately, the Chinese ink that I use is never completely waterproof, so that the black of watercolor always dissolves too much. I have now ordered the ink you use and hope that it is better suited. For drawing, I use the branches of hazelnut, which are pretty hard. But I know bamboo feathers and coil springs from earlier works.
Kind regards from Rolf Hofmann from Weimar in Thuringia, Germany.
Please excuse the bad english, i use the google translator …

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Ch’ng Kiah Kiean

2018-09-17

Hi Rolf, maybe you can try to work on different type of paper, preferably with more cotton type of paper. I used Saunders Waterford most of the time.

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Ch'ng Kiah Kiean