Painting Tutorial in English | Peony
Peony is one of the most beautiful flowers with multiple rows of petals and gorgeous color. The famous one featured in Chinese painting is the Luo Yang type. It was a hybrid flower cultivated in Luo Yang, central China.
There are different species, different color and different ways to paint this large flowers. The only thing you need is a larger brush with mixed hair that contains more water.
Material used:
Paper: half-ripe Rice paper 38cm x 38cm (半生熟宣卡紙 )
Yellow color 藤黃
Indigo 花青
China red 大紅
Crimson red 曙紅
Rouge 胭脂
If you are looking up the exact color, please refer to the Chinese characters. The English names are the names that I use.
Happy painting!
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Hi everyone, I'm Kate. Welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to start painting peony,
one of the most popular Chinese watercolor subjects. Let's get started. I'm using this
mixed hair brush that I introduced in my last video. In fact, I bought this brush for painting
peony because it carries more water than the wolf hair. See this mixed hair is white hair on the
For the flower, I'm gonna use this red color. This is the China red that I always use.
This is the crimson red that is a little deeper than this one. And this is something that I call
rouge, which is even deeper than the crimson red, but it has a slightly different shade.
It has a bit of blue tone in it. To get the gradient of red shade, we'll start from
the lightest color. You may start with the white base, but in this painting, I'm using only water
to wet my brush and then take the China red, which is the lightest shades in this palette,
and then the crimson red. Let me show you what it looks like. When I'm taking some darker color,
the rouge color, then you can get this shade. I hope you can see the difference.
We're going to start with the petals in the middle. In Chinese painting, we are all painting
the luoyang peony, which is a type of semi-double peony with multiple rows of petals and yellow
statements when it's in full bloom. The reason why I specify this is because there are many species
of peonies. They look a little different. There are single, semi-double, full-double, and bloom.
You may look it up online. If you google luoyang peony, you'll see what I'm talking about.
They are the typical peony flowers in traditional Chinese painting.
Even though all the peonies look very similar, they are painted differently. Some artists start
with the white color, which is the edge of the petals, and some artists just pre-mix different
shades of pink. Some, just like me, use different shades of red. You just have to try and see which
method works for you and which shades work for you. As I build up the flower, I'm leaving a bit
of white space between each petal. For the leaves, take some yellow. You might want to take more if
you want to paint a broader strip. And then the blue, this is indigo blue.
If you want to get this plant's leaf color, indigo blue is more ideal.
It doesn't really matter if you see this residual because this color is a bit old.
Okay, this is the green, and then take a little bit of red and show you what it looks like.
When it comes to the stem, the luoyang peonies are stripes, not herbaceous, so the lower stems
are woody. Only the top part is green, and that's how we paint these Chinese peonies in traditional
Chinese watercolor. But I want this painting to be more modern and western, so I'm not painting
the bottom part of the stems. I'm gonna use yellow for the statement. If you want to make it more
prominent, you can leave more space in the middle of the flowers, paint more details, and use
poster color for the stem. As I said before, there are many species, different colors, and different
ways of mixing color and paints. I'll be exploring other color composition and technique as well.
Please stay tuned. Thanks for watching. I hope you like this video. I'll see you next time.