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Chinese Brush Painting Four Seasons: Paint Flowers, Birds, Fruits & More with 24 Step-by-Step Projects
In traditional Chinese painting, a dipped brush is used to apply water, ink, and color to silk or paper. The form has a long history and is still widely enjoyed by painting enthusiasts. Chinese painting is not limited to precise similarity in the appearance of objects, but rather emphasizes expressing the author’s subjective taste. This allows even total beginners to quickly get started in the art through self-study.This book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink paintings. Following the tutorials in this book, you can complete beautiful ink and wash paintings in just a few strokes. You will also learn about the culture surrounding solar terms that has been passed down for thousands of years and taste the beauty of the changing seasons. In this book:•Starting with the most basic knowledge, you will gain an understanding of the classification and characteristics of the brush, ink, paper, inkstone, and pigment, laying a solid foundation for painting.•You can gradually move from superficial to deeper techniques as they are integrated into the tutorials, including a total of more than 30 painting techniques that can be easily learned through practice.•Follow meticulous graphic steps and intimate key tips to complete 24 fine ink paintings with rich themes centered around flowers, birds, vegetables and fruits, fish and insects, and landscapes.•Gain insight into China’s twenty-four solar terms culture and the wisdom of life it contains, broaden your creative vision, and expand the horizons of your aesthetic taste.•Gain inspiration to integrate these paintings into life and turn them into practical items which can be used to decorate your home or as gifts to relatives and friends.•The easily copied images, along with the spine binding design, make it easy to spread the book evenly as you practice the techniques in it.Follow this book to experience the beauty of freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting!
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- Изобразительное искусство
- Ремесла и хобби
Язык English
Издатель Shanghai Press
Дата выпуска 20 апр. 2023 г.
ISBN 9781938368998
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Chinese Brush Painting Four Seasons – Fei Le Niao
The lily in the painting symbolizes good wishes. Painted on a postcard, it is a special gift to be given to friends.
For thousands of years, the Chinese have divided a year into 24 solar terms, with six solar terms for each season. Mirroring the changes in climate and phenology, solar terms play a key role in daily life. For example, they guide farming activities and impact people’s diet, clothing, housing, and transportation. Many customs and habits related to solar terms have been preserved to this day, and a large number of literary and artistic works with solar terms as the theme have been generated, constituting an essential part of traditional Chinese culture. The 24 solar terms constitute a knowledge system of laws summarized by the ancients in their age-old contacts with nature, which perfectly integrates astronomy, farming, phenology, folk customs, and philosophical ideas, suggesting good wishes and wisdom for people to live in harmony with nature. In 2016, the solar terms were placed on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list.
In the form of traditional Chinese painting, this book presents the various climatic characteristics of the 24 solar terms and their representative flowers, birds, fish, insects, fruits, vegetables, figures, and landscapes in separate and individual terms, along with an introduction to the solar terms.
The book presents the paintings associated with the 24 solar terms in the order of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. With each painting there is an introduction to a new painting technique. Plenty of blank space is left to encourage readers who love Chinese painting but dare not try it to create poetic pictures.
As well as painting on traditional paper, you can paint directly onto bookmarks, postcards, envelopes, or paper bags to give them to your friends as gifts. You can also put your artistic creations on everything from cups and penholders to notebooks, enhancing ordinary stationery.
Now, let’s start our journey through the traditional beauty of the 24 solar terms.
Fig. 9 Chinese Trumpet Flower
The Chinese trumpet flower is bright in color and rich in fragrance. Its tenacious vitality has caused it to be associated with lofty aspirations. In the painting, a young flower protrudes from the wall, drawing two bees to come and observe.
CHAPTER ONE
Tools and Materials
The tools of traditional Chinese painting are collectively referred to as the four treasures —brush, ink, paper, and inkstone. The paintbrush is a traditional writing and painting tool originating in China, and is made of animal hair or bird feathers. Although ink has a single color, it is indispensable in traditional writing and painting. With this ingenious material, the exquisite artistic conception of Chinese calligraphy and painting can be fulfilled. Paper is one of the four great inventions of ancient China, and the types of Chinese painting paper are quite specific. The inkstone—one of the four treasures of the study—has been gradually replaced by ink and ink plates as a result of social progress, and is now more for collectors. Besides, painting cannot be done without pigments. In The Record of the Classification of Old Painters , a work of Chinese painting theory from the Southern dynasties (420–589), the method of coloring according to categories was proposed, whereby the objects in the painting were divided into categories, with one color applied to each. This chapter briefly explains the basics of the four treasures and the fundamental blending of pigments.
There are a variety of ink brushes, including weasel-hair, goat-hair, and mixed-hair. Weasel-hair brushes are elastic, and are generally used to outline tree branches or trunks. Goat-hair brushes are highly absorbent, and are used for coloring and broad strokes. Mixed-hair brushes are moderately elastic and absorbent, and are good for outlining and coloring.
The basic standards for a good ink brush are that it should be sharp, round, strong, and neat. Sharp means that the tip of the brush must be pointed; round means that the belly of the brush becomes round and full when absorbing water; strong means that the brush must have some elasticity; and neat means that the hair of the brush is of the same length when splayed.
Mixed-hair brush for painting.
Weasel-hair brush for outlining.
Goat-hair brush for painting.
Detail painting brush for outlining.
In this book, a mixed-hair brush is used for coloring a small area, a weasel-hair brush for outlining branches and stems, and a goat-hair brush for rendering pictures and coloring a large area. The fine strokes mentioned, such as for leaf veins and stamens, are achieved with a detail painting brush of any model. In painting, the direction of the brush generally changes according to the shape of the object.
Birds Drawing and Painting Class
Andy Gray
 
Bristol Folk House 5.0 (6)
6k followers
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6 hours 1 to 3     label £64
What you’ll do
Capture the beauty of British birds in watercolour in this painting and drawing class. Both fun and inspiring, this Bristol activity will help you unleash your creativity and imagination.
Through studying and drawing British birds from photographs provided, you’ll develop a basic understanding of form and learn to produce anatomically and proportionally correct artwork. You’ll then add life and character to your drawings with the colour and texture of the plumage.
Explore top techniques for making your watercolour art studies with demonstrations and support from your talented teacher. You’ll then get to give it a go yourself with hands-on exercises. This bird painting and drawing class is suitable for everyone, even beginners!
As part of the class, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore the work of key wildlife artists and their methods and materials. You’ll then come away full of new knowledge and your beautiful bird artwork to cherish.
- The Folk House has no level access or accessible facilities.
- You must be aged 18 or over.
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly.
 
What you’ll get
- Derwent water-soluble sketching pencils and standard grey water-soluble graphite to borrow.
- Your artwork to take home.
What to bring
- Set of watercolours.
- Watercolour brushes.
- Watercolour palette (or an old plate to mix colours on).
- Pad of watercolour paper (cold pressed 300 gsm is recommended).
- 30cm see-through ruler.
- Rubber.
- Watercolour pot / old jar.
- Pencil sharpener.
- Lemon Yellow hue.
- Cadmium Yellow hue.
- Cadmium Red hue.
- Permanent Rose.
- Cerulean Blue hue.
- Ultramarine.
- Raw Sienna.
- Burnt Sienna.
- Viridian.
Location
Bristol Folk House – 40a Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JG
Your teacher
Andy is passionate about observational drawing and painting. Previously teaching drawing at UWE and the City of Bristol College he now works with a variety of clients on both corporate and private commissions and educational projects.
Helping people to develop their own individual styles of expression and tell their own stories, through the exploration and documentation of the visual world, he encourages and guides the way with new techniques and skills.
Referencing the history of art and design to provide context for the experimental use of materials and composition, the sessions are invariably both fascinating and fun.
Your host
5.0 (6)
6k followers
Contact
The Bristol Folk House is an adult education centre providing a variety of part-time day and evening courses and workshops for over 18’s. The Folk House provides a welcoming environment in which to explore your creativity and learn new skills.
We provide courses and workshops that engage the local community. The cafe provides fantastic organic food and a space to get together before and after classes. It is also open to the public and is the perfect place for those seeking a relaxed and friendly place in Bristol city centre. Live music and festivals happen throughout the year, as well as markets, events and exhibitions.
The Bristol Folk House is part of a charity and we receive no funding from the government, the city council or any other institution and our income is wholly derived from course fees, venue hire, members and fundraising events.
The centre began in the 1870’s with the aim of supporting access to education in the community. The first programme of activities was produced for the academic year in 1920-1921.
More about this class
This teacher has 6 reviews for their other experiences – which you can see here.
This class is also covered by ClassBento’s money-back guarantee.
