Peonies in traditional Chinese technique + step by step process

in #art6 years ago (edited)

Hello friends! Now the summer and the peonies are in bloom. At least in my city :) I'll show you how to paint peonies in the technique of traditional Chinese painting.

Materials:

  • rice paper;
  • Chinese black ink;
  • brushes;
  • Chinese mineral paints;
  • felt mat;
  • napkin for blurring the brush.

To paint buds I will be an elastic dark brush. For the leaves I will use a softer white brush.

Tone color transition on the petals is created at the time of painting. I fill the brush with the primary color, and I lower the tip of the brush into a darker paint.

I do not sketch. I start to paint from the petals. Apply the darker tip of the brush to where the base of the petal will be.

I paint the flower in separate strokes, step by step. Look at the flower. Each petal I begin to paint next to the other, but do not leave large free places. I left the middle of the flower empty. There will be a core and stamens.

I paint the next flower in yellow color. This is how the paint brush looks. The entire brush is filled in yellow, the orange color on the end.

I paint the yellow peony in the same way. Next to me I paint an unopened bud. For a closed bud, the dark tip of the brush is applied not to the base, but to the beginning of the petals.

Then I paint the leaves. Leaves for pions are painted with free strokes. The color of the leaves in Chinese painting is often black, gray or gray-green, so as not to distract viewers from bright beautiful flowers.

By the way, there are no green colors in the Chinese palettes of colors. There is only a color that is now called "mint". To get green shades of colors I mix yellow, black and blue colors.

The most intense and dark leaves are near peonies. It brightens to the bud. I painted a few dark leaves in the upper left corner, and lighter leaves in the background.

Chinese painting depicts nature. Peony flowers are always depicted growing on a bush. Therefore, we finish the branches, buds and veins on the leaves. Draw a heart of flowers and stamens.

Butterflies or bees give the picture dynamism. I put on a butterfly that flies to the flowers.

To smooth the work, I moistened it with water.

And smoothed the picture, pasting an additional layer of paper on the back.

The picture is ready!

Cheers

@veta-less

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Wow congrats with the curie vote! Definitely well deserving! :)

Thank you @zord189 ! Yeah, I'm glad you liked it )

beautyful flower

I'm glad you liked my painting :)

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Hi @curie, thanks for your support!

I love this kind of painting! Great work!

I'm glad you liked my peonies )

Очень красивый рисунок! :)

@sweettais я рада, что понравился :)

Красота! Особенно красный мне понравится цветок!
Бумага рисовая насквозь промокает, как она не разваливается? и еще у меня вопрос чем её выпрямляют посте высыхания? )

Спасибо, мне красный, кстати, тоже больше нравится)
Бумага промокает, и с ней нужно очень аккуратно. От малейшего движения порвется...

Там целая процедура про подклейку. Самый современный способ - это второй слой бумаги с силиконовым слоем приложить с обратной стороны и утюгом прогладить. Я когда училась - мы приклеивали вторым слоем такую же рисовую бумагу с помощью клейстера и разглаживали специальными широкими кистями.

сложная технология, да... а не пробовали по обычной акварельной бумаге в этой технике работать?

Пробовала, я открытки рисую на акварельной бумаге, но на ней не все эффекты можно применить, особенно всякие размытия, которые на рисовой часто используются

Интересно... а открытки для себя, или продать удаётся?

This is a gorgeous painting! The bright reds and yellows really make it pop!

Thank you @rwedegis You're right! I was choosing colors for my work, and I thought red and yellow would make it popular.

You made the right choice!

You're really talented! Thank you for sharing this, it makes painting seem a little less frightening 😁

@tripswithtam Thank you! It's actually easy to paint)

Wooow, this painting is really superb.
You also took a step by step tutorial.
I'd make one for my self 😀

Also get a deserved curie 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Thank you @stevenson7 ! It's easy. This is the first thing I started to get when I was studying Chinese painting ))