While the traditional orchid is a gentleman, I tend to think of Phales as elegant ladies, sitting at a drawing room--who are, maybe, painting. I have four of them outside my window, though. Two are purple, two are white. Not that I'm really an orchid person.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
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
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