Chinese Loquat Brush Painting on Everyday Xuan

This is Ling-Chi Ye, Brush Painting for Beginners from Oriental Art Supply. Today's subject we want to show how to use one of our biggest brush, Lai-Ming, to do one subject, and it's a lead off or to our next virtual session on how to use big brush. So I'm going to use everyday shrimp paper. You can use any unsized shrimp paper, and then the color I'm using chip color. Indigo with chunk yellow to get green, and then I'm using vermilion. Mix a little bit with the ink to get my brown. The reason I don't use burnt sienna is then I can control the brown, the shade I want, and also it's smoother than burnt sienna. So burnt sienna is a mineral color. Sometimes it's not as smooth as when you mix the vermilion with ink. So I have shown you how to do this stroke on the left side of the leaf, so which is a little bit more challenging. So I'm first I'm loading the green, and then indigo. The great thing about the big brush is that you can make big strokes, and then it's still long enough so you can show the transparency of a stroke. So I'm going to do the first stroke. So you can see a little bit awkward for our so the right hand side leaves. It's a lot easier. Okay then I'm and then I want to show the versatile of this particular brush. So I'm getting rid of all my ink. Now I'm going to use the tip of the brush to make the loquat. So I'm loading a little yellow and a little bit of vermilion. So the big brush is make sure when you want to do the small things, then you want to make sure that you are not too wet. All right and then I'm going to connect these with the brown. Okay I finished my big loquat.