Chinese Brush Painting

I dedicated about 2 years of my life and art practices to learn how to paint in the traditional Chinese style. With ink, inkstone, brush, water, and paper, I started to paint and draw calligraphy. At the same time I was learning to speak Mandarin by taking courses in school. Later in life, I would go on to travel to Beijing regularly with my wife. These are a small collection of works I did as a white, western, American embodying the teachings and methods of master painters from the oldest and longest surviving culture thriving today.