IAMA Art Museum in San Francisco Artist: H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III A FEW PLUM BRANCHES OVER THE PORTICO (SECTION) This is a painting in the “Pomo Xiantiao Xiezhen” style. The center brush-tip technique and the side brush-edge technique were both applied in this painting in addition to large-scale freehand brushwork using the splash-ink technique. The mountain scenery was painted with black ink and heavy hues of green. This artwork not only preserves traditional painting skills but also manifests the realistic effect of modern Western oil paintings. In Chinese paintings, it is very difficult to apply the perspective technique, with its three-dimensional look, to paintings in which the center brush-tip technique is used to express scholarly charm. However, this painting combines four different elements: the three-dimensional perspective technique together ...