Spring Flowers in Chinese Painting
Learn the main principles of drawing and color tone in flower painting. Discover techniques to paint delicate primroses using Chinese ink. Choose the right brushes, ink, and paper for the best results. Master color mixing and create expressive images. Develop skills to paint personal pictures with various flowers. This comprehensive course covers techniques for painting Crocus, Muscari, and Forsythia. Gain new skills, perfect your mood, and create charming pictures. Explore basic techniques, learn to draw different flowers, and work with leaves and inflorescences. Understand tonal relationships, monochrome painting, and composition. Suitable for beginners and advanced artists in Chinese painting.
What you’ll learn
- Main principles of drawing and color tone of flower painting
- Painting petals and the whole primroses in Chinese technique
- How to choose brushes, ink and paper to get the best result
- To mix colors and ink to make first black and white image of primrose and repeat something similar in color
- After finishing each part of the course will be easy to paint a personal picture with Crocus, Muscari or Forsythia flowers
Here is the complete course devoted to the different primroses – the most delicate and fragile early spring flowers – Crocus, Muscari and Forsythia
You will study and learn:
-how to mix beautiful colors and create effects that makes paintings in ink ( xe-i) technique so expressive!
-after finishing the course you will have a ready-made charming picture with the image of a flower you’d like, new skills and perfect mood!
In different stages of this class are many interesting:
Let’s master the basic techniques of the image: stretch marks, dry / wet brush, dark to light tricks.
Let’s get acquainted with the “orchid touch” and learn how to draw different flowers with it.
We work out the basic techniques for the image of leaves, twigs, flowers and inflorescences.
We will master the various techniques of image of flowers: the contour technique, the technique of “from the spot”, learn how to combine them and not be afraid to create complex combinations.
Let’s consider how to build tonal relationships inside inflorescences of complexly picked flowers.
We will learn to work in monochrome, using only ink, with the help of which we will reveal all the charm and depth of a monochrome image.
Let’s work with Chinese mineral paints, talk about the harmony of color and ink in different flower images.
We will get acquainted with the basics of composition, learn how to create your own spring impressive pictures and greeting cards.
The materials you will need ( and if you are in doubts what to chose I can help to find better decision):
-Brush for xe-i and elastic one or a universal small brush.
-Wolf hair brush for contour No. 2 or brush for landscape No. 1
-Chinese ink for painting and calligraphy
-Felt mat
-Set of mineral paints MARIES palette of 12 colors
-Paper for xe-i.
Recommended paper for this course
– paper for sumie “Plum”
– paper for xe-i and sumie 35×136 mm
– universal paper for xe-i, xiao xe-i and sumie art.
Who this course is for:
- The beginners of Chinese painting and more advanced artists as well are welcome to join this class.
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