Discovering Beijing’s Love for Paintings with the Help of Shopping Assistants from Beijing Hotels

After a cozy and homely rest at your Beijing hotel’s room, its ripe time for you to discover and appreciate China’s vibrant past.

Shopping around Beijing can be very hectic for most people, especially if there is a big possibility of getting misguided by maps, getting lost in traffic, and experiencing communication barriers between the locals. Lucky for us, most Beijing hotels nowadays offer services such as shopping assistants to help us out in our itinerary.

If you an art aficionado and is in quest for something nice and interesting then, Beijing is the perfect place to be.

Painting and calligraphy is a very popular expression of art in China. There is a shop, near most Beijing hotels, that sells the widest variety of brush pens. These brush pens are used by experts and student artists in making their masterpieces.

Chinese brush pens are said to be unique because they come in a variety of sizes and textures that are tailor made to suit your individual preference.

For example, a large soft weasel hair brush is used for applying color on a painting that has water lily or lotus leaves on it, while medium sized brushes made from goat or sheep hair is used for controlling difficult outlining stokes. Small brushes on the other hand are best used for very fine outlining. For a variety of effects, hairs from squirrels, rabbits, horses, and chickens are also used.

Mr. Zhang, An owner of a famous brush pen shop and with 50 years of experience in the industry guarantees his customers dependable and good quality brushes. He also engraves special Chinese characters to personalize the brush you want. Your shopping assistant would help you communicate with Mr. Zhang If you wish to have your brushes encrypted with classical Chinese characters.

If you’re not the “brush” type of artist, there are other shops located near most Beijing hotels that specialize on oil paintings.

Strategically located at the heart of Beijing’s buzzing streets, the first floor of Beijing’s largest art market, houses Ms. Chen’s art studio. Ms. Chen is a contemporary artist, she makes amazing oil paintings that awes tourists and locals alike. Ms. Chen uses two unique types of style in her paintings: The Western-style of oil painting and the combined Western-Chinese Style. Most of her paintings are about landscapes, still objects, and figures.

Shopping in Beijing has never been this fun and easy, with your shopping assistant around, you will be assured of getting the outmost value of your money since she also bargains for you. Also, she will try to find shops that are near your Beijing hotel so you can save not just your money to be used for riding a taxi, but more specially your time.

To know more about these personal shopping assistants, you can inquire from your Beijing hotel’s help desk or you can also visit myshoppingbeijing.com for your convenience.

Author E. Larson is a long-time expatriate in Beijing, China. He works with the Sariz International Beijing Hotel and many other hotels in Beijing. Go to his website on the Sariz International Beijing Hotel here.