Chinese Painting Cherry Blossoms on Khaki Xuan

This is Ling Chi, Brush Painting for Beginners, and today's subject is going to be cherry blossom on colored shrimp paper. First, let's talk about the difference between cherry blossom and plum blossom. When cherry bloom, there is a lot of green leaves and also has stem connected to the tree trunk. Eventually, they develop into cherry, so cherry is like plums, and plum is individual fruit, so that's the major difference. The trunk and the flower shape are very similar. That's the talk about in the newsletter about zoom in. We are not doing a big tree with lots of flowers and lots of leaves and lots of branches. We are just zooming this part of it, so our major subject is the trunk and then the flower, so this is going to be the finished work. The brushes I'm going to use is for the flower and then the holder is going to be the flow brush. I tried the pre-flow, it works very well too, and then we have the happy dot for the smaller line work. The trunk, it's a very interesting way of doing it. The combination brush like flow, large flow, super flow, full lotus, it will work if you know how to paint it dry because it should have a textured look. I just lately taught a lesson online, and then the gentleman had a dragon brush forever, and he doesn't know how to use it, so I'm going to demo with the dragon brush. If you have large mountain horse, it would work, or large full moon will work, so what I'm looking for is a stiffer brush that doesn't hold longer brush. It doesn't hold as much liquid as the combination brush like flow line or full lotus, but like I said, it will work if you know how to keep your brush really dry. The paper I'm going to paint today on the khaki, and the original was done on light gray paper. You can use any color paper as long as it's not too dark, will show up the ink and color. The star of the color is two whites. The reason I choose the white flower is that lately I saw some work online that the white was very pasty, so I wanted to show you how not to get the white so pasty, still give the transparency. So I have a two division dish. The first part I'm going to use the sakura white, which is a gouache white. You can also use da Vinci white. So this white is going to be a little looser. So this will show the transparency of the white, and then later on I will tell you another trick about white to keep it transparent as I'm going along with it. So you can see it's on the watery side. On the other division, I'm using blipu white. People, that's the most question we ask, what's the difference? Blipu white does not melt into the paper, so will stand out. So we keep it very thick. Okay, in this corner I'm going to use what I have on here in the little section plum blossom dish, and then I'm going to use some yellow from the, everyone help me, what's the name of it? Kuretake palette. I'm going to use mostly this palette. If you don't have it, companion set would work too, but I like this because the color it seems much softer than any other color. Like you can use bright light or companion set, but then you're going to take a little bit effort, try to marry the set together. The other section I will use some is the green. Another reason I take the green out of the palette is because I don't like to use a green straight. I mix the green with ochre. So this is my green. So you can see that kind of make into more a yellow green. And on the another section, I'm using some red with my rouge. And then on this one, that's my mixing, and I'm going to use some two purples, which will be my center. One kind of blue purple, the other is the red purple with whatever I have left it on the red. And then the best bottle ink. Oh, there is another thing is I mix the two brown. One is a light burnt sienna brown. The other is the dark brown right next to the burnt sienna. So these color I'm going to use it for my trunk. Okay, I'm going to start with my flower now. I dampen my brush and I dry it. But then I dip the make the tip moisture. And then I will load a little bit of my green. And then the gouache white, Sakura white or DaVinci white. And then the tip with the bleed proof white. Now I have a palette here to mix. So this is my center of my flower. So you can see that I'm not pasty. So when I saw some of the work online that use white flower, it's too pasty. So you can see the water and the white is that's where the Sakura white play a role. And then I used I changed, I clean my center, the tip of my brush. Now I dry it. And then I load the purple. Wasn't purple enough. So this is my center of the flower. And I go lower the bloom, lower the bloom. And then I rinse the tip. And I lower I forgot the green. So I'm going to load some green onto my brush. And then I will load the Sakura white and then bleed proof white and blend. And then I'm going to do another flower on this side facing. Then I clean my tip and then go back to the purple. Then I finish my flower. So in your case, you don't need another flow brush. But since I don't want to risk having my flower color got into my stem, so I just use another flow. And then I will tip with some red. Okay, so I'm painting the calyx to hold the flower. So this is going to be a bud later on. And then there'll be another bud on this side. And then there's a cluster of bud underneath this first first flower. And then there's two bud a little bit. So one of the things you want, make sure that you have enough space so they don't stay together. All right, and then I'm going back to my flower flow brush. So now I'm painting two buds, just two dots. And this one a little bit bigger. You can see from the tip of my bud versus, you know, it's not complete all pasting. So there's intense white. All right, and then now is the drama of this painting, which is the trunk. So I wet my dragon brush. Like I said, you can use the large fumu or large mountain horse, both will work. And then I make sure my tip is wet. And then I'm going to load some green. The second color I'm going to load is the brown. Then I tip a little bit ink. All right, and then we're going to connect the stem with so I have a green, a little brown, with a little red, and then with a little ink. Green, brown, a little red, with a little ink. All right, and then we have mixed them. Then we're going to use the bleed proof white as the center of my flower. Now I mixed the bleed proof white with yellow before to make the center more stronger. Then I used the purple I had done before, add a little ink to accent the yellow. Then I finished my composition. I hope you have will have fun to do this white cherry blossom. And if you have the any of these color paper, have fun with it. If you don't, you can always dye your white paper with dark tea or coffee. And then I also have another sample, which I did a pink cherry blossom on white shampoo paper.