8th: Daoxuan's Hell's Metamorphosis remnants. Mixed ink with temple ash.
11th: Wang Wei's Wangchuan Villa pieces. Used Xuanzhou paper aged underground for three years.
14th: Zhou Fang's Ladies Wielding Fans screen. Tinted silk with crushed cochineal bugs for that Tang Dynasty red.
17th: Juran's Autumn Trees centerpiece. Brushed a base coat of pine soot and soy milk.
20th: Dai Kui's Standing Guanyin. Slapped gold powder over a hollow lacquer frame to fake solid sandalwood.
24th: Guan Tong's Wintry Forest. Dirtied up with northern grit to look weathered.
27th: Gu Kaizhi's Water Lady fake. Used a single-silk brush to copy the spider-web thin lines.
29th: Dong Yuan's Summer Mountains. Left hanging in the rain for a week to get a natural ink-bleed.
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