chinese painting

A free workshop on chinese painting was sponsored by the Enterprise Center last June 24, 2009. We were made to do some paintings using chinese brush and the black chinese ink. The picture you see above is a painting of a bunch of chrysanthemum flowers. Nope it was not done by me, but by the teacher who was guiding us in our painting.


This second painting they say is much easier to do....but i find it hard to paint the leaves. The technique to painting bamboos per my teacher is that the stems below should be shorter and rounder, after every joint the diameter of the stems should be longer and leaner. Oh i got the stem part....its the leaves that is much harder to do.

The ink is too light I guess I put too much water.

Another painting by the teacher is the young bamboo, notice that the stem is smaller and the leaves are still standing. Older leaves tend to fall.