[Repost] Ink Painting Lesson 4 – Sketching

I’ve been so busy late­ly that I haven’t even had time to look at my daugh­ter’s paint­ings. Thanks to a friend’s reminder, I final­ly took a clos­er look. Wow, these kids draw real­ly well! Alas, when we were lit­tle… 🙁Orig­i­nal address:Ink Paint­ing Les­son 4 – Sketch­ingauthor:Han and Miao
Today we also had a sketch­ing class, draw­ing small branch­es. Mr. Bird had col­lect­ed a lot of beau­ti­ful branch­es, so it was a good time to learn how to draw them.

Start by going out­side and look­ing at the grass. The grass is long, bunched up at the bot­tom, and then spreads out.

The branch­es are so long that they become thin­ner and more numer­ous as they go up.

The leaves are like this, exact­ly as we learned. This is because the paint­ings of the ancients were inspired by life.
Why is there no tech­nique for paint­ing paulow­n­ia trees?
Because the paulow­n­ia tree came from abroad lat­er and the ancients had nev­er seen it, they did not leave behind any method of paint­ing it.
Chil­dren can work hard to cre­ate how to draw sycamore leaves.

There must be den­si­ty in paint­ing. Let’s observe how den­si­ty is dis­trib­uted in nature.

Nono Paint­ing All the col­ors today were mixed by the chil­dren them­selves.

Next to it is the real thing

Step by Step Paint­ing

Xiao Yin­hua

The last class talked about “Chaoyuan Xianzhang”. Today, Mas­ter Wang Jian brought a paint­ing that Shi­tou copied when he was 10 years old.
Shi­tou is the son of Mas­ter Wang Jian, and he will also learn paint­ing with us in the future.

Very long

The expres­sion is so vivid!

After fin­ish­ing the paint­ing, Bubu dis­cov­ered a maze of wires out­side the door, and he and his sis­ter Xiaoyin start­ed play­ing with the maze.

We also found a lit­tle black dog. I asked Bubu to observe it care­ful­ly and draw it lat­er.
He took a look and said, it’s so black, how much ink does it take?
 
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There are still many draw­ing exer­cis­es to be done, but chil­dren nowa­days are too busy, so we don’t require them to prac­tice at home.
You can just calm down and paint for three hours every week. As long as you per­sist, you will see results over time.

This paint­ing by nono has a lot of Feng Zikai’s style

Prac­tice var­i­ous leaf paint­ing tech­niques. Prac­tice is always the most impor­tant thing.

nono 
He’s made great progress. Now his brush­strokes are grad­u­al­ly tak­ing on the fla­vor of ink paint­ing. When he first start­ed learn­ing ink paint­ing, he just used a brush to paint water­col­ors. It looked like brush­work, but it had noth­ing to do with ink paint­ing. I told his moth­er he had to stop so he could study with Mas­ter Wang Jian, but they had just paid a lot of mon­ey, so they stopped imme­di­ate­ly. Now he’s grad­u­al­ly get­ting into ink paint­ing.
Why should we learn ink paint­ing in the cor­rect way? Isn’t paint­ing with a brush com­bined with water­col­or tech­niques also ink paint­ing?
Yes, it looks good too.
But no mat­ter how long you have been paint­ing, you will not be able to under­stand the famous paint­ings of Chi­na through­out the ages.
If you learn ink paint­ing in the right way, you will feel that the famous paint­ings and your paint­ings have a her­itage and blood­line.
What will Xiaoyin think of Gong Xian in the future? She start­ed learn­ing ink paint­ing from Gong Xian when she was young.
This kind of ink paint­ing emo­tion is shared with mas­ters from hun­dreds of years ago, and one can have a deep under­stand­ing of it.

Step-by-step tech­nique prac­tice

All the chil­dren paint­ed for three hours today. They are grad­u­al­ly falling in love with ink paint­ing.

Today, Mas­ter Wang Jian demon­strat­ed how to draw lines.

So thin, like hair.