In the places where, in nature, there are many branches, add more and elaborate; where few, simplify. That is how the ancients painted their landscapes of a thousand crags and ten thousand gullies; it is actually not difficult to do in one sitting.
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Chieh Tzu Yuan, 1679
This is the eighth drawing in a series of studies of Chinese landscape painting technique-- the eighth drawing to survive, anyway! Most seem to end up in the recycling.
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