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From Zhaofan Liu, for About.com

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The Inspiration for the Painting “Shu-Han Ancient Plank Path”

Step-by-step Chinese Painting by Zhaofan Liu

The painting was inspired by this famous Yinchanggou landscape.

Photo: ©2007 Zhaofan Liu www.liuzhaofan.com

The photo above was taken in autumn (August) at the famous landscape Silver-Mine-Valley (Yinchanggou) which is in the Chengdu Sichuan Province of China. At the time, the trees were dense, the colors were strong, the air was clean, the river was gushing. The plank path was hanging like a girdle, studded around the cliff and stretching into distance.

As I was walking on the mountain, I felt touched by this particular scene, took a photo at once, and drew a sketch.

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