Learn the fundamentals of Chinese painting brush strokes with Ashley Liu from YangTravelArt. This comprehensive class covers an explanation of the basic brush strokes, and how to best use them to produce beautiful art in a Chinese painting style. Let this serve as your guide and reference to Chinese brush painting basic strokes.

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Techniques covered in this class:

- Upright Vertical Stroke

- Oblique Stroke

- Reverse Stroke

- Hidden Stroke

- Exposed Stroke

- Scatter Stroke

- Drag Stroke

- Rub Stroke

- Dot Stroke

After this class, you have four exercises:

1.Exercise one ：飞白 Feibai practice. Keep the brush dry then press, lift a little bit as you sweep the brush.

2.Exercise two: changing direction. In this exercise you practice changing directions by making loops with the brush. Notice how my thumb moves up and down the handle.

3.Exercise Three: wavy lines. To paint this line, first you should hold the handle high up, then relax your hand and arm. Lift the wrist up and down to practice varying your pressure. If you’ll paint a long line you should move your arm as the line is drawn out.

4.Exercise four: rotating lines. The key to this exercise is to keep using the tip of the brush. move the thumb upward When you paint the left side and move it downwards when you paint the right side.