Willow & Plum Flower Picture -- preliminaries

Demonstration of the first stage of painting "pussy willow branches and plum branches in a vase".  This is done at Chinese New Year 2018.

Class Notes of March 30, 2018

Class Notes at Somerset Run 3/30/18
-Practice on five different rock combinations
-Assemble them into a landscape picture
-The target picture, with color added, is shown below.

The demo are shown in the following videos:

How to do rocks
https://youtu.be/I4pAOdkMnus

Adding color to the rocks
https://youtu.be/i0r9l2KTvMU
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River Gorge

A small work depicting the Yangtse River Gorge   The brushwork emulates that of Fu Baoshi, famous for his "splayed bristle" 散鋒 technique in his brushwork. 乱麻皴。

Towering cliffs,  boat traffic, temples, villages... are characteristic features of the traditional gorge.

(A better copy of the painting is in Google+ as follows)
https://plus.google.com/104810833786391031500/posts/FoNgFhf8Rdu

Another village modeled after village of France

Here's another village inspired by villages of France, set alongside a river.

Special places

Monastery perched on top of an impossible precipice -- Meteora in Greece.

Beautiful French villages 2

In painting a village,  it is not easy to come up with a natural and esthetic arrangement of houses.   It helps to have a real village as a reference.   The beautiful villages of France provide such a model.  The village houses can then be set in an even more imposing landscape...

Beautiful French villages 1

France has the most beautiful villages.  The traditional houses in a natural setting inspires painterly expression and a feeling of harmony between humans and Nature.