The tools used in traditional Chinese painting are paintbrush, ink, traditional paint and special paper or silk.

中国传统绘画的工具是画笔、油墨、传统颜料和特种纸或丝绸。

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The paint goes through the open areas of the stencil cut out onto the paper.

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The paint is thin. Sometimes you can see through the paint to the paper underneath.

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Elephant dung is one of many materials the artist uses in his works, which draw on collage techniques and employ acrylic paint, paper collage, glitter and map pins on canvas.

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Both our art and our literature go to great pains to destroy our illusions and remind us that they are merely ink on paper or oil paint on canvas.

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"Japanese traditional houses have paper screens with mica paint which is a very subtle medium, giving a shiny appearance to recreate the pattern of the water, " she said.

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