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                                                   Make your own brush with Ying! 
                                                                             A one day brush making workshop 
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                                                                                              Brush painting demonstration.....

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                                     About brushes

 When I was three my mom taught me calligraphy and painting. The brush was always with me  growing up; I  thought I was born from brushes. After four years at the Art Institute (China),
  I was inspired to create "New" designs by using different materials for making brushes.
  Believe it doesn't matter where the materials come from, the beach, forest, farm, or even road kill. I like to read  them first until I get inspiration from them. My creative ideas come from nature, the trees, and the mountains,  waves of water, the earth and you.
 Some people tell me "I always use the brushes you made," and others say "I haven't used your brushes yet because  they are too beautiful to use."
                                        
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#1, Cleaning the hair
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#4, wrapping up
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#7, Tie them up
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#2, Combing short hairs and furs out
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#5, Reform the shape
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#8, Make a hole for the bristles
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# 3, Put in the order
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#6, Dry extra water out
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#9, !!!!!!!!!!!
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                                                                                 The ancient soul in each of my brush
 Most people are not aware that the brush has been a key part of Asian culture for over five thousand  years. Over  those many years the brush has been the principal tool through which the mind, thoughts  and passions are  expressed.
 The form of the brush is simple. However, Found in that simplicity is a great tension cultivated through  careful skill  and training. You can see that tension in the softness of the bristles and how they contrast  with the hard handle.
 The bristled of the brush can be made from a wide variety of materials. When bound together to from  the tip of the  brush they becoming a piece of sculpture that is fine as found in the best expressions of  any culture in the world. Truly the brush can become a one of kind object, each with its own voice through which my soul can  speak and tell  the world of many things that are deeply rooted in my culture. As the Asian philosophers say about the essence of the tip of the brush:   Soft is soft.  Soft is not soft, Soft is soft.
 To truly understand that poem you must use one of my brushes with love in your heart and mine for  the idea or  feeling you wish to express. Once you have finished expressing yourself in this way, you  will fully understand the  depths of the philosophy found in the words.




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YIXING TEAPOT 
A one day hand-building workshop
Tea ceremony
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Tea's benefit.
Lots of fun!

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                                                Pottery
 About PotteryI am always looking for kind of beauty; taste in my  ceramic work related my strong Chinese ceramic tradition. Using    white porcelain clay, cleat glaze, spontaneous brush strokes,  decorated blue, green and red surface of the pots  merging with  contemporary expression taste to our daily life.  


Sanbao studio-Yingzart      2019