Basic Traditional Strokes: The Orchid
Video Demonstration By Haiying Yang
The Orchid is one of "The Four Gentlemen" of Chinese Brush Painting and Sumi-e, the strokes that serve as the basic building blocks of your painting and calligraphy. They say that that artists who have been painting for years sometimes use these strokes to warm up, just like musicians practice their scales.
Unlike the modern orchids with showy flowers, the traditional Asian orchid is simple yet elegant, with one small, perfect, fragrant flower at the end of each stalk with graceful leaves swaying in the wind.
The Orchid is the symbol of spring, which is when it blooms. And it is said that because this orchid blooms in hard-to-reach places such as mountains, forests and cliffs, this represents the modest gentleman of purity and refinement.
I suppose, it is a lot like spring: easy, breezy and undemanding.
More of dear Haiying's Orchid demonstrations in these previous posts.
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