Everybody was Gong-Fu Painting

 Kung Fu painting?

Kung Fu painting? What the heck is that, and how does that work? Are you kicking the paints onto the miniatures? Well, no, not exactly.

Lets start with the word Kung-Fu, or more correctly Gong-Fu.  You likely know Kung Fu from the movies, with Shaolin monks flying around on wires spin kicking Manchu soldiers, but that is only one type of Kung-Fu. We really need to expand your definition of the term, so let’s start there.
These days you hear this term Gong-fu mostly associated with Chinese tea ceremonies (google it!) 

Traditionally the word Gong-Fu means any practice, discipline or activity that you engage in that requires time, patience, and energy to complete. When you take the two parts of the word, Kung-Fu, the Kung/Gong part can be translated to hard training, or skillful work and Fu means spent time. Time spent on hard or skillful work!

These days you hear this term Gong-fu mostly associated with Chinese tea ceremonies. This is essentially a very complex way to make and serve tea that ensures each cup for each person is the same, steeped correctly for the best flavor, controlling and maintaining the temperature etc.

 It’s a very exacting and precise – and rewarding- process. So is painting miniatures!