Red Hong Yi makes art from everyday objects-including cracked eggshells, tea bags, matchsticks, flower petals, and soil-to help us see things anew. Through a mix of meticulous planning and improvisational "painting" with various materials, Red tells visual stories that inspire, delight, and provoke, often exploring themes of Asian cultural identity along the way. Part art book and part do-it-yourself guide, How to Paint Without a Brush encapsulates the joys of using nontraditional art-making methods and shows how anyone, from the casual hobbyist to the emerging artist, can create art from common objects. Spend a bit of time immersed in this book and you will look at the things around you-and the world-a little bit differently. Read Hong Yi is a Chinese Malaysian contemporary artist who makes work expressing her heritage and Chinese diasporic perspective. Red studied at the University of Melbourne, and her work has been exhibited at H Queens in Hong Kong, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. Collectors of her work include JPMorgan Chase Bank and actor Jackie Chan. Her art has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time, and the New York Times.

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