Chinese Painting Lesson Camellia 5

So even though I'm holding the brush vertical to do this end, I still try to use the body of the brush as the stroke moves down, rather than brushing the tip. See the tip has dark colors, so if I brush the tip, the color won't be able to fade like this. What happened is this method I call lower the boom, to allow the color instantaneously ease into water. And I don't even know what lower the boom means, but it just sounds nice. White, pink, blend. I rinse the tip to get rid of the white at the tip. I want to touch magenta, touching red, and touching dark red at the tip. And these three reds are the darker red I use for the center and for the shadow. I blend the brush. White tends to make all the dark color muddy. I still like to retain some of the white and pink on the body. I build a wall, and then adjust the tip so the tip now is no longer pointing sideways, it's pointing downward. And I settle the pressure. Settle the pressure. The mystery is solved. By settling down the pressure, you see the dark red is able to fade into the pink and white, because the body has the exact color. But if I just leave the tip up, then the tip will show dark color all the way up. So the brush is used not as a bloom, to sweep, but rather used as a mob. So build a wall, and use the brush like a mob. Move with the body.