Saturday, October 6, 2018

Class Notes 10-5-2018

Bamboo
Leaves: 
shape, proportion, relative lengths and widths, orientation, curvature,

Think in term of groupings, clusters.

Groupings and clusters: distinguish between major and minor components.

Mindful of leaves that "fly" out;  these give flair and spirit to the grouping.

Stems: avoid parallelism and alignment;  they unite the leaf clusters to form a balanced whole.

Video:
https://youtu.be/XES07nzIj8E

LANDSCAPE
Use medium ink to start.
Mainly lines and angular shapes.  Pay attention to the quality of the lines.
To build space, to separate land-form "in-front" from "behind",  strengthen the lines with dark ink, and adding dots (distant trees).
Texture with lighter ink to show "lay of the land-form" -- sheer? rounded? flat? smooth? rugged?
Use larger strokes (brush at a shallow angle) to do the distant mountains and waterfall.  White gaps left behind is the waterfall -- use a dry brush to draw in the flowing water  (just a short stroke, rounded at top and sharp at bottom).
[Adding color will be subject of the next class.]

Video:
https://youtu.be/mCVes5fSjOk

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Class notes of May 18, 2018 -- Adding color

A belated posting of the coloring process for the ink painting of the previous blog. The class video, in two parts, are viewable below.
https://youtu.be/Md6JCx7Nkdk
https://youtu.be/hjryJ1x3ms0

The final product is: