Hello Friends, I am sorry I have been missing from this little space! The last month got away from me with travel, teaching and family priorities. You know how life is? It can be a juggling act right? Anyways, I...

I've recently become a big fan of gouache paintings, and have been on the search for beautiful gouache painting tutorials and references.

A beautiful 18th Century style hand-fan completely hand painted with gouache and hand-applied with antique French sequins. Actual fan is made of heavy stock archival paper, with wooden sticks. It is completely hand constructed as well. This is just one example, I take commissions, so any references or any styles are welcome! -Includes its own beautiful box with colorful tissue for safe keeping. -accurate 18th century, Victorian, or Edwardian design. Whichever you prefer! -you can even send…

The term "Chinoiserie" is french for "chinese-like". This type of asian/chinese design style entered Europe in the mid-to-late 17th century, when explorers were importing chinese artifacts into Europe and were astounded by the beauty of these hors-d'oeuvres and their design/style. The construction and fabrication of many things and merchandise in Europe would be shortly after influenced by Chinoiserie Obviously, you can see why I decided to create my blog on chinoiserie. I'm deeply…

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I've recently been looking into making more Chinese New Year crafts together as a way to celebrate the upcoming holiday. With my current infatuation with watercolor crafts, we recently made these watercolor painted paper fans together. Watercolor Painted Paper Fans This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Our Favorite Chinese New Year Books Prior to making the craft, we had already been reading books explaining the holiday. Here are some of our favorites! The Runaway…

About this item Hand painted on Korean mulberry paper Beautiful lines made by the wide breadth of the unfolded fan's outline Attractive three-dimensional creases of the paper arranged neatly Size: Unfolded 21"Wide x Folded 11.8"Lenth (53 x 30cm) Notice: This item doesn't include the wood stand in the picture. Since it is handpainted, it can't be exactly same as the picture.