Sorry your comment did not appear in WP, I only found this out in email. I use rice paper (xuen paper) for all the paintings I did. The colour is Chinese painting colour. You can not use ordinary watercolour to paint which will bleed. The ink is also Chinese painting black ink. I prefer to use ink stick and grind the ink on ink stone as I use it.
Try using Chinese rice paper (raw xuen paper) not the Japanese rice paper you will get that dark/light (3D) effect in one stroke of brush. The ink and color texture should be the same. They will not bleed once dried on xuen paper.
So we use same kind of colurs, it serms. I use water colour paper, though. I’ll look out for the Chinese rice paper, would be fun to try. Thanks a lot!
Do you know any Chinese or someone who is able? You can try to browse this http://www.taobao.com there are tons of rice papers even colour one. The best one is from anhui – red star brand. Good luck.
brushes and papers
brushes and papers 
October 14, 2017 at 00:13
Love it. Great shadows on the branches. May I ask what kind of paper/canvas you use?
October 15, 2017 at 10:13
Sorry your comment did not appear in WP, I only found this out in email. I use rice paper (xuen paper) for all the paintings I did. The colour is Chinese painting colour. You can not use ordinary watercolour to paint which will bleed. The ink is also Chinese painting black ink. I prefer to use ink stick and grind the ink on ink stone as I use it.
October 15, 2017 at 16:54
Thanks! I use Chinese ink myself for my illustrations, I love it. Is the texture of the Chinese painting colour different frm the ink?
October 15, 2017 at 18:18
Try using Chinese rice paper (raw xuen paper) not the Japanese rice paper you will get that dark/light (3D) effect in one stroke of brush. The ink and color texture should be the same. They will not bleed once dried on xuen paper.
October 15, 2017 at 18:22
So we use same kind of colurs, it serms. I use water colour paper, though. I’ll look out for the Chinese rice paper, would be fun to try. Thanks a lot!
October 15, 2017 at 18:36
Do you know any Chinese or someone who is able? You can try to browse this http://www.taobao.com there are tons of rice papers even colour one. The best one is from anhui – red star brand. Good luck.
October 15, 2017 at 19:30
Thanks! I do not know any Chinese, though, but I guess it should be possible to find in English as well 🙂
October 15, 2017 at 19:41
I guess. 😊 Amazon has it but it has been cut to smaller size. It usually comes in 3/4/6..feet by 1.5/2/3 feet a cut of 100 pieces.
October 15, 2017 at 19:50
I just want to let you know that ebay has it even more cheaper than amazon. 😊