Video Demonstration By Haiying Yang
Basic Traditional Strokes: The Plum Tree, Branch and Blossoms
The third gentleman of Chinese brush painting and Sumi-e is the Plum. It blooms in late winter, thus symbolizing hope and hardiness, someone who can create beauty in the midst of hardship. It is interesting to note that the gnarled and rugged branches are rigid, sharp, even rough, while the blossoms themselves are rounded and soft.
And the books I'm reading say it's really an apricot.Hehe.
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Showing posts with label four gentlemen. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Beginning Chinese Brush Painting: The Chrysanthemum
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.
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.
Beginning Chinese Brush Painting: Bamboo
Basic Traditional Strokes: The Bamboo
Video Demonstration by Haiying Yang
The second of The Four Gentlemen is the graceful and resilient bamboo. It bends, it sways, but does not break. Instead, it springs back. It is the symbol of summer, and represents strength, integrity, vitality, and the spirit that endures in adversity.
Kind of hard to believe it's really a grass. Me, I just really like bamboos. Except for the thorns.
More ways to paint bamboo, from Haiying in this previous entry.
Video Demonstration by Haiying Yang
The second of The Four Gentlemen is the graceful and resilient bamboo. It bends, it sways, but does not break. Instead, it springs back. It is the symbol of summer, and represents strength, integrity, vitality, and the spirit that endures in adversity.
Kind of hard to believe it's really a grass. Me, I just really like bamboos. Except for the thorns.
More ways to paint bamboo, from Haiying in this previous entry.
Beginning Chinese Brush Painting: Orchid
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Orchid
How to paint orchids, demonstrations by Haiying Yang.
Orchid
Orchid 2
Orchid Flowers, Ink
Orchid Flower, Colour
Orchid, Chrysanthemums, and Tulips
Orchid
Orchid 2
Orchid Flowers, Ink
Orchid Flower, Colour
Orchid, Chrysanthemums, and Tulips
Bamboo
Various ways to paint bamboo by Haiying Yang.
Bamboo, Ink
Bamboo, in Colour
Bamboo, Colour with a Flathead Brush
Bamboo, Ink
Bamboo, in Colour
Bamboo, Colour with a Flathead Brush
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