Painting the Bamboo

Painting bamboo is arguably one of the most empowering subjects one could paint, and it can enchant you or it can frustrate you no end. Sometimes it does both. It takes a while to get the rhythm of painting the stems and quite possibly of painting the entire subject. One learns patience in painting bamboo, and I would say that a steady hand is also required. So no wine drinking until you finish. No, there really is a striped bamboo. Okay, I think that this will certainly give me enough structure for my leaves, and painting bamboo leaves are the most relaxing part of a subject, but also very deliberate. Land and take off, just land and take off, and this is a little tricky going up and back down and you want all your leaves, oops, to not look like that. We'll just say that was captured by the wind, but in the main you want them all to be nice and straight, but I've noticed that in every painting there seems to be a whoops. There seems to be a why did I do that when I meant to do that? So there you have it, my almost perfect bamboo painting. Thank you for watching. If you've enjoyed and learned from this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel so that way you don't miss any of the videos when they come out. So comment below if there's a subject you'd like to see me paint, and if you want to start your own brush painting journey, click on the join Nan Ray's online class button to learn more about my live online classes. It's so much fun and you'll learn so much, I guarantee. So thank you again for watching and I wish you so much joy.