Relax With Chinese Painting - Lotus Flower & Kingfisher

Chinese Freehand Painting

What you'll learn
Paint lotus flower and leaf in the Chinese Freehand Painting style
Paint the kingfisher in the Chinese Freehand Painting style
Compose 4 different complete paintings that incorporate the lotus and kingfisher
Requirements
Necessary Painting Materials
Description
The Chinese Freehand painting enjoys a unique popularity in the world thanks to its expressive brush works and free flow of emotions. This is a painting style that allows us to be free from the rules of the physical world and create our own - a truly free space. In the learning of the Freehand painting, we become observant, we begin to intuitively capture the essence of an object and express it. The minimalistic lines also contain life philosophy.This course is dedicated to a key combination in the Chinese painting family - the lotus flower and the kingfisher bird. The lotus flower contains  quite a few cultural codes and the kingfisher brings the entire painting to life with its vivid plumage and actions.In our course, you will first learn about the composition and how to paint each individual object, and then we will put these imageries into 4 complete paintings. In the process of learning about the structure, the growth, and the usage of ink and color, you can get a good grasp of the freehand painting. You are also encouraged to create your own paintings according to the content in our course. Come join us and learn to paint the lotus and kingfisher!

Overview

Section 1: About & Demo

Lecture 1 About Fiona and this course

Lecture 2 Demonstration of a painting

Section 2: Painting Lotus Flower, Leaf & Kingfisher

Lecture 3 Lotus flower & leaf

Lecture 4 Kingfisher

Section 3: Composition of Complete Paintings

Lecture 5 Composition 1

Lecture 6 Composition 2

Lecture 7 Composition 3

Lecture 8 Composition 4

You would like to relax your mind in an artistic way,You enjoy the Chinese or Asian brush and ink painting