Video Demonstration By Haiying Yang
Basic Traditional Strokes: Chrysanthemum
The last of the four gentlemne of Chinese brush painting and Sumi-e is the chrysanthemum. It blooms in early fall, and to uses the strokes learned while painting the bamboo, the orchid and the plum. In Chinese painting, it is supposed the symbolize the common man, good and unpretentious, while in Japan, it is the crest of the Imperial Family. Hm.
And the flowers shoo away bugs, especially mosquitoes.
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