Chrysanthemum on Olive Xuan Paper

This is Ling Chi. Push painting for beginners. During our virtual hours last month and someone request to do a chrysanthemum which is one of the four gentlemen the third one and also representing autumn that's when the flower bloom so I thought that would be a good time for us to to do that subject. There are all different kind of chrysanthemum and we have one book that is probably the most well-covered complete chrysanthemum book of the chrysanthemum by Jiangshan Qiao and in the book covers all different variety of chrysanthemum. In this page you can see and then the leaves and then this is what they call mum chrysanthemum. That's the most popular and challenging one to do so that's what we are going to do today to this one. The reason is challenging is like for instance our paperweight that is chrysanthemum you can see all these individual petals make it very confusing and difficult to bring it back to home and and then here is a sample that of the completely you can see to bring all the stroke back to the center is very confusing and since this is the class that we are doing for beginners so we're going to show you a simpler version the starting of that particular flower. It's still the same flower but it has a lot less petals and actually this petal is just consist of four grass orchid petals and in Ning Ye's brush painting instructional guide the newest edition which we call gold edition the second chapter of grass orchid has this page on page 28 will show you this four strokes which is a parenthesis from the left parenthesis from the right and then S shape from the left S shape from the right the whole flower is consist of these four stroke so it's good for you to practice this stroke over and over again so you know how to control it to bring it back to the center of the flower and it's not difficult so so but very crucial to learn how to do those strokes today we're going to use two brushes happy dog for the flower petal and orchid bamboo for the leaves and then stain. As far as the color for the flower we have a bleed proof white and the transparent white whether it was Sakura or Da Vinci white which is a gouache white this is the the transparent white and then I'm going to help you to use this Mecca color the silver as a base to add that additional shininess dimension of the flower as we go along we'll talk about it for the leaves we have green which is make our indigo and yellow chunk and then indigo tips and then we have our brass bottle ink so we will at the beginning we'll use bring the bleed proof white which is the strong white for the tip Sakura white which is the transparent and then the third color is this in the Mecca color the silver you can either use the Mecca color the silver I have it here or pearlescent silver which is this set either one will work just add a little dimension to it and today we're going to do the olive color shin and you can do it on the any shin color shin as long as it will show up the leaves so the black and navy then you have to use white for the or silver or gray for the leaves but in this case any color shin that will show up the green then that would be what you would use so we're going to use the happy dot first with low the first color is the silver that we have and then the white which is the Sakura white or DaVinci white is a gouache white and then the bleed proof what is the tip then I mix and then I add more bleed proof white so make sure this intense enough that will show up so I'm going to do the center of the flower six just stroke one two make sure they are not the even height so and then a little bit pointed and curved as you go along three four so total about five to six stroke so look like a pumpkin shape so this is them then we're going to do the outside outside the petal so the first one going to do this so the next stroke is a lot taller so you can see that is now is a s-shaped stroke coming home to the to the center again and then the third stroke I'm looking at this point everything has to come back to here all right and then I'm going to add another one little bit taller and I have another one they're hugging this one see everything is coming back to the center if you get away from that then you're in trouble so that's the whole this one way out here and this one is below this one this is outside petal now I'm going to add some cross strokes it's also important has to come back here all right so this is my flower and then I'm going to use the orchid bamboo for the calyx to hold the flower I want to add a little green so I'm using the companion set yellow with my premixed green so now I'm this is my center of the flowers on so now this calyx is holding this flower so this is what we call them all the lower the boom stroke and this connected with this one on the other side and then so this is long and then there is a waist here is shorter and then I have a third layer of this okay so now I'm going to use a little yellow with the green that I have here and make the stem to connect everything so this is what they call bone stroke this hold here this whole connected with here and then here all right and then we're going to accent some ink here we already have the best bottle ink tip here now we finish our chrysanthemum for the day so happy painting if you wanted to do much more glamorous flower you can follow the paper weight we have or through the chrysanthemum books so happy painting see you next time