What You Will Learn!
- Paint magnolia flowers in the Chinese Gongbi painting style
- Paint tree branches and add fine details in a Gongbi painting
- Adding a partial background
Description
Course Description
This refined painting is perfect for releasing mental stress and restoring your energy. Over 2,000 years ago this art originated from China, and this art form still enjoys its solid status in the art world until today. Like a bottle of good wine, this painting requires patience and care, which you will cultivate along the painting process, and you will slow down automatically, as will the world around you - enjoy this excellent time of peace and quiet.
Course Objective
In this course, we will start from using a brush to outline the flowers and branches, and then move on to coloring these beautiful blossoms. We will also discuss relevant Chinese cultural aspects during our classes.
In this course we will paint the magnolia flower, and in the process, we shall refine our coloring skills and learn to outline and color the branches and add the background in one way. This course will not require you to make the illustrations of the outline, instead for our beginner course, the outline will be already made and ready to download. Did you know that the magnolia flowers can be called "mu lan" in Chinese? Just like the brave girl who fought on behalf of her father in the well-known movie. Did you also notice the existence of these blossoms as a thread throughout the movie too?
Course Materials
1 small outline brush; 2 medium sized brushes; ripe rice paper; other
"Dans chaque fleur des champs le paradis."
There is a heaven in each flower, isn't that true?
Who Should Attend!
- You are looking for an artistic way to relax
- You are fascinated by the Chinese / Asian art
