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Invented in 9th century China, coveted in 17th century Europe, treasured in 19th century America, and neglected by art schools for more than 100 years, china painting is poised for a revival with new materials, new forms and new imagery. China paint, fired at the lowest end of the ceramic range, offers consistent, durable, predictable color, from the brightest hues to the subtlest gradations. Any effect that paint or ink can achieve, china paint can duplicate. For the ceramic artist interested in exploring this robust medium to the lifelong china painter, China Paint & Overglaze is the essential text. This groundbreaking book is the first to showcase the work of traditional china painters, contemporary potters and clay sculptors together and includes many unique features on every aspect of an exciting and colorful medium. From the Preface to China Paint & Overglaze I came to china painting from the world of studio ceramics, but I was a painter first. I started painting with oils when I was eight, and sold my first painting at ten. Throwing on the wheel seduced me away from painting, but not for long. My pots soon became as much about painting as pottery could be. When I quit throwing to concentrate on tile murals in 1986, china paint attracted me with its brilliant color, fine detail, and quick firings. I have never had any lessons in china painting, so I have always done a lot of things wrong, especially in my commitment to water-soluble mediums. In writing this book, I have tried to cover the traditional methods and materials completely, while also detailing how I do things more unconventionally. I don't pretend to be an expert in the use of the more esoteric overglaze techniques, but I hope I've covered the basics well enough to get you started. I also hope I've encouraged artists to try overglazing and china painting in new ways. I believe the question should never be, Will this work? but rather, How can I make this work? Those readers who are used to decorating with underglazes and glazes will need to embrace several new concepts to use china paints effectively. Once you get these, the medium becomes a real treat to use. First, think of it as paint, not as glaze. Any effect you can achieve with any form of paint (oil, water, acrylic, or latex), or any kind of ink, you can achieve with china paint. You can have any shade, hue, or tone you desire, and you can tell before it's fired exactly what color it's going to be, with very few exceptions. Second, it doesn't have to be finished in one firing. Many effects can only be developed slowly. There's no limit to how many times you can refire a china-painted piece. This medium, and this book, is based on the concept that the glaze firing is only an intermediate step in the creative process. Third, you can wipe it off as easily as you can put it on. Once you get used to painting on a hard, slick surface, you'll find you can do things you can't do with any other medium. This book differs from most books on china painting in that there are no studies to copy, and no lessons on color theory or design. I don't intend to tell anyone how or what to paint. What I have included, in as great a depth as I can manage, is a comprehensive telling of overglazing's long and fascinating history, and a serious study of the ceramic chemistry, with particular emphasis on color development and safety/durability issues. The medium is ripe for another renaissance. It needs the raucous energy and freewheeling experimentation of the typical studio clay artist combined with the discipline, control, and technical mastery of the typical china painter. It needs new imagery, applied to new forms, with new techniques and materials.Paul Lewing, Author of China Paint & Overglaze
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Invented in 9th century China, coveted in 17th century Europe, treasured in 19th century America, and neglected by art schools for more than 100 years, china painting is poised for a revival with new materials, new forms and new imagery. China paint, fired at the lowest end of the ceramic range, offers consistent, durable, predictable color, from the brightest hues to the subtlest gradations. Any effect that paint or ink can achieve, china paint can duplicate. For the ceramic artist interested in exploring this robust medium to the lifelong china painter, China Paint & Overglaze is the essential text. This groundbreaking book is the first to showcase the work of traditional china painters, contemporary potters and clay sculptors together and includes many unique features on every aspect of an exciting and colorful medium. From the Preface to China Paint & Overglaze I came to china painting from the world of studio ceramics, but I was a painter first. I started painting with oils when I was eight, and sold my first painting at ten. Throwing on the wheel seduced me away from painting, but not for long. My pots soon became as much about painting as pottery could be. When I quit throwing to concentrate on tile murals in 1986, china paint attracted me with its brilliant color, fine detail, and quick firings. I have never had any lessons in china painting, so I have always done a lot of things wrong, especially in my commitment to water-soluble mediums. In writing this book, I have tried to cover the traditional methods and materials completely, while also detailing how I do things more unconventionally. I don't pretend to be an expert in the use of the more esoteric overglaze techniques, but I hope I've covered the basics well enough to get you started. I also hope I've encouraged artists to try overglazing and china painting in new ways. I believe the question should never be, Will this work? but rather, How can I make this work? Those readers who are used to decorating with underglazes and glazes will need to embrace several new concepts to use china paints effectively. Once you get these, the medium becomes a real treat to use. First, think of it as paint, not as glaze. Any effect you can achieve with any form of paint (oil, water, acrylic, or latex), or any kind of ink, you can achieve with china paint. You can have any shade, hue, or tone you desire, and you can tell before it's fired exactly what color it's going to be, with very few exceptions. Second, it doesn't have to be finished in one firing. Many effects can only be developed slowly. There's no limit to how many times you can refire a china-painted piece. This medium, and this book, is based on the concept that the glaze firing is only an intermediate step in the creative process. Third, you can wipe it off as easily as you can put it on. Once you get used to painting on a hard, slick surface, you'll find you can do things you can't do with any other medium. This book differs from most books on china painting in that there are no studies to copy, and no lessons on color theory or design. I don't intend to tell anyone how or what to paint. What I have included, in as great a depth as I can manage, is a comprehensive telling of overglazing's long and fascinating history, and a serious study of the ceramic chemistry, with particular emphasis on color development and safety/durability issues. The medium is ripe for another renaissance. It needs the raucous energy and freewheeling experimentation of the typical studio clay artist combined with the discipline, control, and technical mastery of the typical china painter. It needs new imagery, applied to new forms, with new techniques and materials.Paul Lewing, Author of China Paint & Overglaze
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Fascinating insights into the changing supply chain industry in China, from leading international expertsA fascinating look at the enormous changes taking place in China today as it evolves from global manufacturer to global consumer marketplace, The Shipping Point: The Rise of China and the Future of Retail Supply Chain Management explores how China's ascension will have a profound impact on the future of retail supply chain management. Bringing together the knowledge and expertise of leading supply chain and retail professionals from around the world to illuminate opportunities that are likely to develop over the next decade in China, the book is essential reading for anyone working with or looking to better understand how supply chains work.Focusing on cutting edge logistics programs, processes, and technologies that will drive supply chain innovation in the twenty-first century, the book highlights innovative logistics programs that link the Asia Pacific manufacturing base, with international retailers and end consumers. Providing real examples of supply chain innovation in the marketplace to clearly illustrate the ideas in action, the book explores multi-country consolidation in China, strategies for greening the supply chain, supply chain & logistics IT systems, contingency planning strategy, and much more.Explores the programs, processes, and technologies that will drive supply chain innovation in the years ahead, with a particular focus on ChinaIncorporates case studies contributed by retail executives and logistics industry professionals from around the worldHighlights innovative logistics programs that link the Asia Pacific manufacturing base with international retailers and end consumersIn The Shipping Point, international transportation and logistics expert Peter Levesque and a team of contributing authors provide practical expertise and insights into present and future opportunities for consumer retail and supply chain management—and what it will take to turn those opportunities into reality.
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Fascinating insights into the changing supply chain industry in China, from leading international expertsA fascinating look at the enormous changes taking place in China today as it evolves from global manufacturer to global consumer marketplace, The Shipping Point: The Rise of China and the Future of Retail Supply Chain Management explores how China's ascension will have a profound impact on the future of retail supply chain management. Bringing together the knowledge and expertise of leading supply chain and retail professionals from around the world to illuminate opportunities that are likely to develop over the next decade in China, the book is essential reading for anyone working with or looking to better understand how supply chains work.Focusing on cutting edge logistics programs, processes, and technologies that will drive supply chain innovation in the twenty-first century, the book highlights innovative logistics programs that link the Asia Pacific manufacturing base, with international retailers and end consumers. Providing real examples of supply chain innovation in the marketplace to clearly illustrate the ideas in action, the book explores multi-country consolidation in China, strategies for greening the supply chain, supply chain & logistics IT systems, contingency planning strategy, and much more.Explores the programs, processes, and technologies that will drive supply chain innovation in the years ahead, with a particular focus on ChinaIncorporates case studies contributed by retail executives and logistics industry professionals from around the worldHighlights innovative logistics programs that link the Asia Pacific manufacturing base with international retailers and end consumersIn The Shipping Point, international transportation and logistics expert Peter Levesque and a team of contributing authors provide practical expertise and insights into present and future opportunities for consumer retail and supply chain management—and what it will take to turn those opportunities into reality.
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Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers. Combining economic trends with the author’s anthropological background, China’s New Consumers details the livelihoods and lifestyles of China's new and evolving social categories who, divided by wealth, location and generation, have both benefited from and been disadvantaged by the past two decades of reform and rapid economic growth. Given that consumption is about so much more than shopping and spending, this book focuses on the perceptions, priorities and concerns of China's new consumers which are an essential part of any contemporary narrative about China's domestic market. Documenting the social consequences of several decades of rapid economic growth and the new interest in 'all-round' social development, China's New Consumers will be of value to students, entrepreneurs and a wide variety of readers who are interested in social trends and concerns in China today.
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CHINA PAINTING- A Practical Manual For the Use of Amateurs in the Decoration of Hard Porcelain By M, LOUISE MCLAUGHLIN.Originally published in 1877. Contents include: INTRODUCTION, v CHAP, i Preparing the Design, ... 9 2 General Directions for Painting, , , 12 3 Composition of Palettes for various Styles of Painting, .... 20 4 Tinted Grounds, 44 5 Mat Colors, ..... 52 6 Other Pigments and Mediums^ . . 59 7 Burnishing, ..... 64 8 Paste for Raised Gold, ... 68 9 General Remarks on Decoration, . 73 10 The Importance of Drawing, . . 81 ii Technique, . 86 12 Designs, 92 13 Lessons to be derived from Japanese Art, 100 14 Preparing Gold and Silver for the Decora tion of Porcelain, . . . 105 15 Use of Metallic Paints upon Porcelain, 112 1 6 Lettering, 119 17 Use of Relief Colors, . . . 125 18 Firing, ....*. 132. INTRODUCTION: The art of painting on china is certainly a beautiful one, and is, perhaps, peculiarly fitted to be an agreeable pastime for persons of leisure. There is, however, too general a tendency to consider it simply in the light of an amusement, ur worthy of serious study, and an art for the practice of which no special training or knowl edge is necessary. Now, what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and the idea that one can successfully prac tice any branch of art without having previously learned to draw is false. The eye and hand must be trained, and the taste cultivated, before any result worthy of the name can be achieved. The best foundation for any art-work is a thorough knowledge of drawing ; and the time tpcnt in acquiring such knowledge will never be regretted* It is true that there are methods of decorating china with simple designs, which may be accomplished by those unskilled in the use of the pencil or brush ; yet, as the hand of the master is revealed in the most careless sketch, so the want of skill or freedom of touch is apparent in the treatment of the simplest subject. To those who have the time and patience, as well as the natural ability to learn to draw, we would say : Make it your first business to ac quire that knowledge. Cultivate your taste by study of the best models; - educate the eye to perceive beautiful forms in nature or art, and tite hand to transcribe them. Painting on china, may not offer the same fa ditties for the truthful rendering of nature as oil or water-color painting, but it has other com pensating advantages in the beauty of the enamel; tad the enduring qualities of the pigments, when fixed by the fire. With the present greatly increased facilities afforded by the improvements in the manufac ture of colors, china painting should regain something of its former prestige among the arts In other times the greatest artists exercised their art upon this material, which, seemingly so frail, has preserved their work unharmed for ages, A revival of the art, however, can not be ex* pected from a servile copying of the old designs and methods. As well might the artists of the modern school have expected to arrive at their present knowledge of technique by copying the pictures of Durer or Van Eyck. There will be no true revival of any branch of art unless founded upon study of nature and the adaptation of her principles to design, and there will likewise be no advance possible to the individual art student without this study and practice.
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Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers. Combining economic trends with the author’s anthropological background, China’s New Consumers details the livelihoods and lifestyles of China's new and evolving social categories who, divided by wealth, location and generation, have both benefited from and been disadvantaged by the past two decades of reform and rapid economic growth. Given that consumption is about so much more than shopping and spending, this book focuses on the perceptions, priorities and concerns of China's new consumers which are an essential part of any contemporary narrative about China's domestic market. Documenting the social consequences of several decades of rapid economic growth and the new interest in 'all-round' social development, China's New Consumers will be of value to students, entrepreneurs and a wide variety of readers who are interested in social trends and concerns in China today.
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Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, and Hungary. It takes a results-oriented, comparative approach to supply chain management covering structural, strategic, and operational topics.The book first presents how the historical Silk Road supply chains operated and then provides new and interesting examples from different countries the Silk Road passed, from China to Europe. The text demonstrates that the supply chain concept and its related practices are not new, per se, and invented recently in the West. Rather, it was practiced for centuries along the Silk Road and became the foundation for today’s global supply chains. Against this backdrop, the book explores the differences and similarities along the Silk Road in the supply chain management process and what can be learned from them. As supply chains become longer, leaner, and more scattered around the globe, performance and risk become two sides of a coin. Bringing together a diverse team of experts from academia and the business world, the book’s coverage spans not only regions, but industries. This fresh perspective provides insights for assessing performance and hedging risk and opens up new directions for research. … Haksoz, Seshadri, and Iyer have brought together 28 scholars and business executives from different continents to share their perspectives about past and present trading activities along the Silk Road. … [the book] examines a wide range of issues arising from a multicultural perspective. … provides clear insights of the past and the present that will help academics and practitioners to gain a better understanding of the future.-From the foreword by Christopher Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
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These high-quality China Markers by Markal write very very smoothly. These specialized pencils and markers go by many names-- wax pencils, grease pencils, china markers. They provide solutions when you have to write or draw on a smooth surface (surfaces to which many other writing tools don't adhere) such as glass, metal, polished and natural stone, ceramics, plastic, tile and mylar. But unlike indelible markers and pens, you get a firm, clear mark that you can easily clean when you need. The markings rub off easily with a dry tissue or lint-free cotton wiper. To "sharpen", one needs only to unravel the wrapper. Photo shows all available colors-- listing is for one of each color as specified in the title.
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Manufacturer: Corona We select the finest natural black China bristles then process them in-house to ensure extra clean, straight material. This time-consuming practice uses traditional methods of sorting, cleaning, and combing, combined with unique techniques developed by Corona over more than three generations of bristle processing and paintbrush manufacturing. Perfect for alkyd enamels, varnish, lacquers, paints, and other coatings. Natural flagg for superior paint pick-up and smooth application. Wide range of panel, trim, sash, wall, and specialty brushes.
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Manufacturer: Corona We select the finest natural black China bristles then process them in-house to ensure extra clean, straight material. This time-consuming practice uses traditional methods of sorting, cleaning, and combing, combined with unique techniques developed by Corona over more than three generations of bristle processing and paintbrush manufacturing. Perfect for alkyd enamels, varnish, lacquers, paints, and other coatings. Natural flagg for superior paint pick-up and smooth application. Wide range of panel, trim, sash, wall, and specialty brushes.
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