Simple Pink Poppy Lesson on Cotton Paper - Chinese Brush Painting for Beginners

I'm Lin Chieh, brush painting for beginners from Oriental Art Supply. Today we're going to do a side view of poppy. Since this channel is primarily aimed at beginners, So we're going to use very simple materials. and also very budget-friendly. And today we'll feature a new batch of cotton paper we just received. It's very versatile and beginner-friendly. because the moisture is easy to control, But it still produces very good colors. And then the color I am using is our Chinese Watercolor, Bright Life family. And then the color I have is red, crimson, rouge. Yellow, medium yellow with indigo, and then white here, These two are the ones I've just been using as a mixing area. So they have a little bit of green and a little bit of red there. So actually it's one, two, three, four, five, This is two colors: mid yellow and indigo. So again, red, carmine, rouge, white, mid-yellow with indigo I'm using one brush for the whole thing. And this is my favorite flower brush right now. For the medium-sized flower, it is a lotus petal brush. you can use the pre-flow, pre-large flow, or Or, um... Your large flow means you don't need two brushes; one brush is enough. because mostly are Um. big strokes, and so this particular one I'm using is lotus petal, so let's get started then An example I did was on the double Xuan paper. so if you don't have the new cotton that is available You can use any of the xuan paper you know how. to control moisture, but if you are beginners struggling with moisture control, give it up Alright, try our newest cotton paper. So I'm rinsing my brush off. and stroke it dry, then I'm loading white with a little bit Um, this mixing color which is carmine with a red and a touch of rouge so but you know, because it's the mixing bowl, so the The color is very, um, light. so the first stroke, so I have this as a guide, so then I have, um, what they what they call an S-shaped stroke I'm going to make it white. I'm rinsing off the tip. And now with the... a little bit red in the mixture and then I have from the middle of here and I had another stroke and then add a small stroke to make the shape more pronounced Interesting, maybe a little bit longer stroke on this side to make this wider and then on the other side I'm having a little stroke to Stretch the entire shape And then... I'm going to use my tip dip into my rouge. So it's pretty strong. So this is the center of my flower a little bit What is left over and then add another stroke okay and then on this side I'm going to Have another darker one color, so I re-dip it Red, okay then I rinse. the tip, so now I want a lighter color So I rinse the brush off. and load with yellow again, oh I'm sorry, white, and rinse the tip off Add a little bit light red So I'm doing this here and then make sure that I have enough on this other side so you can see The top is in and out; I don't have a flat top. So this pretty much finishes my flower, and I'm going to do a but the butt right underneath here So I just used my brush and I didn't even rinse it off. and I'm loading some green so I'm a little bit below So this is my pot. and then this Is the stem supporting the flower? so I'm going from the center of the flower, which is right here and going through the bud and follow it up and then on the and I have another stem following Is the bud stem so I'm Going here is all right. So then this is the poppy. I hope you have fun. And we'll see you next time—we'll use the same paper, uh. Create a landscape to demonstrate versatility.