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| Recent award winning artist in Chinese Brush Painting; Darlene Kaplan specializing in Oriental Brush Paintings on rice paper. Kaplan's art is for sale to private, business, and corporate art collectors world wide. Visit her On-Line Gallery by clicking on the links to view Chinese Brush Paintings and oils of animals, waterfalls, flowers and birds, landscapes and still life. Kaplan teaches Chinese Brush Painting Lessons at two different locations for beginners to advanced students who wants to learn this wonderful relaxing art often referred to as Chinese watercolor paintings using a step-by-step method. First location: Pink Lotus Art Studio, Alexandria, VA. For information please phone at 702-922-4175 or email her at chineseart@darlenekaplan.com Second location for classes is Workhouse Arts Center, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton VA. She Is an instructor in Building W-5 teaching Oriental Brush Painting classes on Fridays from 12:30-2:30 PM. Kaplan's Chinese/Oriental Brush Paintings may be viewed on a permanent basis at Gallery West, Pink Lotus Studio both in Alexandria, VA & at Workhouse Arts Center, Building 16 in Lorton, VA. Associate Member of the Lorton Arts Foundation at Lorton, VA www.lortonarts.org Former Lorton Prison Site. She also teaches T'ai Chi classes In building W-11 on Fridays 10-11 am, 11-12 pm and Tuesdays from 9-10 am in Studio A. For more information about the classes at the Lorton site go to www.workhousearts.org or phone 703-584-2900 Current President of www.gallery-west.com Located at 1213 King Street, Alexandria, VA 703-549-6006 |
| For many years I painted realism in oils before making the change to oriental brush painting. Studying martial arts for years inspired me to try this medium, which I fell in love with right away. The calming effect of grinding the ink before painting, the energy that is put into throwing ink on paper is just the greatest of pleasures that only this style of art allows me to feel. I grew up in the country in Tennessee where all of my spare time was spent walking in the woods searching out bugs, plants and anything else that was alive. Those childhood days spent with nature is brought alive every time I put a brush stroke down on paper. All of my paintings are derived from nature. The paintings are from the very simple, elegant brush stroke of the bamboo orchid to the complicated soothing landscapes that your eyes can take a journey up into the mountains and off into the mist before returning home. Subtlety of a good painting lies in its being alike and yet unlike the subject where the absence of content can itself create rhythm and variety. I believe that an artist is a person who can see something within the mind that can be brought into reality where it can be seen, felt, touched, heard, and even sometimes smelled. |
| Original Chinese Brush Paintings by Darlene Kaplan; owner, artist, and instructor at Pink Lotus Art Studio, Alexandria, VA. 703-922-4175 |
| "Seeking Shelter" Chinese Brush Painting by Darlene Kaplan |
| Welcome to my on-line art gallery featuring Traditional Chinese Brush Painting |
My Thoughts as an Artist
| Original Chinese Brush Paintings on Rice Paper by Darlene Kaplan Pink Lotus (Art) Studio, Alexandria, VA |
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