Simple Chinese Flower Painting Lesson Poppy on Semi-sized Pre-mounted Paper

This is Ling Chi, brush painting for beginners from Oriental Art Supply. Today we're going to use the subject is poppy on semi-sized pre-mounted board. This one that we don't have to mount it so after you paint it you're ready to present it. The book we are using is ABC of Chinese Painting. The cover is a poppy and I'm going to do a little bit different version of it but the composition the leaves are very similar. The color I'm using is the bright light so I will talk about all different colors how I mix them as I go along. The brush I'm using is our two double happiness the small one and then the large one. The reason we call it double happiness is because you can use it for brush painting as well as calligraphy. So it's a very versatile brush and both have very good tips and then bass bottle ink and the main color I'm doing a purple poppy the main color is black from bright light purple and sakura white so this is my base flower color and then on the palette I have purple with black yellow with a little vermilion and vermilion with a little yellow so they don't they are not too sharp and this is a dark green so more indigo than yellow this is a light green is um more yellow and indigo and then indigo and then this is the center of the leaves I'm going to use which is crimson and rouge so without too much explanation now we're going to do the center of the flower so I also did a sample here which is more close to the cover of ABC is a it's a orange flower and then today we're going to do a purple so first I'm using the small double happiness I load this yellow that I pre-mixed with with vermilion and indigo so first I'm going to do the center of my flower so and then I'm using the same brush tip a little bit light green and then for the base of the center and then on the top I'm you wash off the color on my brush and then I'm going to use the vermilion to accent so the semi-sized paper allowed me to fool around with it after I paint it and then I'm going to use this large double happiness for my flower majority time so I'm going to do the I tip with the sakura white with the dark purple mix and then I'm going to do okay and then I have the now I'm tipping the dark purple I'm going to add a little ink to all right and then the next flower is underneath here looking that way looking to the right so I'm using my small double happiness again and then I'm going to use them to do this the center is going to be it determine how my flower is going to look so this center is toward that way and a little light green and then the orange vermilion all right so the second flower is a little smaller than the first one so you can see them because of the semi-size so the color is going to puddle up a little bit so dark purple all right so then I'm rinsing off my big brush you you can use the small brush for the calyx as well as them but I'm going to use the large one for me so then light green underneath the flower for the flower holder and then I'm going to go and then the other one and then on the other side I'm going to do a light green with dark green and then rinse the tip off with this carmine and crimson I have mixed for my um bud dark green and a little bit blue and a little ink on the top okay and I'm going to do this all right now I'm going to build a leaf for my composition so I'm start with light green and rinse the tip off with a little bit crimson and carmine mixed so light green carmine so light green with a dark green and then light green with a little indigo and I'm going to do dark green little carmine dark green with indigo and a little ink so the bottom of the leaves is a little bit darker because you want to grind ground the plant and then this side okay and then dark green with a little ink so when when the color stop puddling up for because of the semi-size you just smooth it lift to finish it up so then I will use some my little happy uh double happiness and to do some connection with the so then this I finished my composition for this purple iris on semi-sized pre-mounted board and the other one is the orange happy painting see you next time