Plum Blossom on Pre-Mounted Papers - Chinese Brush Painting for Beginners

Hello, this is Ling Chi, brush painting for beginner. The winter is coming on the corner and plum blossom season and also is one of the iconic subject, the last subject of for gentlemen, which is orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and plum blossom. And today we're going to do plum blossom on pre-mounted paper. I'm going to do on both plain white and then also mulberry. And we had somebody ask question about what the moisture control. It's very similar to double shone. So it's not a difficult paper to work with. And then the color I'm going to use is our companion set. I only need a red and a darker red, two shades of red. And then keep everything simple. The other thing I'm using is the best bottle ink. The brushes I'm going to use is the lotus petal flow brush. The lotus petal is going to do for the trunk and then the happy tail for the stem, the inside of flower. And the reason I choose lotus petal is a little bit has more body than the large flow. You can use large flow. This will give you more stability for the trunk. And flow is an all-time favorite for small blossom. And then a line brush. You can use happy dot or any of the small line brush. I'm doing on a mulberry paper and I will take my time to explain a little slower. And then the second one I'm going to do it real fast on plain white pre-mounted paper. So this is a good way of doing quick subject for holiday gifts. And this one I cut the square one in half. This one I cut the rectangular in fourth. So I will have rectangular size. So on the right this is the pre-mounted mulberry paper. Yes. And then on the left is pre-mounted shrimp paper. This bottle ink which is from Japan. It's one of the good smooth no grittiness and give you good variation. So I have wet my brush and then I the first layer I use a little ink. Make a lighter ink and then tip the tip with a dark ink. And then I will have bone stroke. A short one. A long one. A little short one. I'm going to put some happy dot here to connect this. So the first flower I'm going to use a full. I have two full flowers. One on the bottom. One on the top. This is my blending brush. I'm going to load red. Tip with carmine and a little brown to make it darker. And then carmine a little bit black here. So I'm going to repeat the same flower down below. So I'm carmine with a little brown. A little bit black. So give it a darker center. And then I'm going to have a little small flower on the top. And here a little bud. And then on here I have a half open. And then I'm going to use the same lotus petal brush. Okay. I'm going to use the ink to hold the flower. Okay. I'm going to add some happy dot here. Like a knot for the branches. All right. I'm going to do another one on just clean pre-mounted shampoo paper. I wash my brushes clean so I won't be too deep. So I can have some variation. On the side of dish I have lighter ink. Then I'm going to do shorter this one. And then from here red. A little bit brown. This is a smaller bud here. Here. Okay. So I'm going to use the lotus petal brush to kind of add some knot where I think I need to soften it up. All right. And then now I'm going to use my line brush. Go back to original Mulberry and tip doing the ink to do the center of the flower. Only the two big ones. And then here is another one. The reason I waited until the last minute because I want to make sure that the flower already semi-dry but not completely dry. Then I'm doing the new one with the plain mounted paper. So I just suggested a little bit. Doesn't have to be really in detail. Then the top. All right. So this is an easy plum blossom on pre-mounted Mulberry paper and shampoo paper. And happy painting. I hope you enjoyed this subject. I'll see you next week.