Chinese Bamboo Painting to Practice Line Strokes in Chinese Painting

Hello, this is Ling Chi, brush painting for beginners from Oriental Art Supply. This month, our virtual office hours theme is line and shape. We're going to do lines to illustrate. Bamboo is the best example. We are using 12-inch practice paper. This paper gives good ink color and also easy to control moisture. We are using best bottle ink. I have two, one straight, intense, one medium shade, and a mixing plate. And the brush we're using is pre-orchid bamboo and pre-happy dove, plus our magic tool for bamboo trunk, biff brush. And then I'm going to illustrate that how to do the lines with the biff brush and pre-orchid bamboo. So first, this pre-practice 12-inch practice will come in rows of 50 feet. It's one of our most budget-friendly paper. So I want to show you how do you cut it. And then the length you want, you just use a clear water with a brush, and then you tear it the shape you want. And then this is how the paper is going to has a bunch tear ahead of time. I guess not. This is going to be our finished composition. So the line illustrated by bamboo trunk and branches, and I will break it down using two different brushes to show you. And then the leaf also is a line, but it starts to tweak a little bit. I will explain to it when we get to it. So the ink, I have intense straight ink from the bottle, and then the medium ink. So to show you how easy this biff brush for bamboo trunk, so we are dipping into the medium ink, and then we kind of smoosh a little bit, and then we dip on both sides into the intense ink and blend a little. And then we do it again, dip into the medium, and then both sides. So the main trunk I'm going to do. So you can see that my side ink, my dark ink is covered too much into the light. So I'm rinsing it off and then stroke it dry on the side of mixing. And then this time I'm going to show it to you that if I only did. So this is a full size of the trunk. And then I'm going to do a smaller one. This time, then I'm making the brush a little bit narrower with my finger. So now I can do a small trunk. If I decide to, you know, traditionally people have one brush, orchid bamboo. So we have a pre-orchid bamboo. So we're going to use just one brush to do the trunk. One more time, use a little bit. So I'm using the side of the brush. So this is how we're going to use orchid bamboo brush. And then I'm also going to show you how do I use the branches. So which is what we call bone stroke, but very narrow. So for beginners, sometimes beginner has hard time to control the moisture. So we use this pre happy to do the branches. All right. And then now the next illustration is bamboo leaf. So bamboo leaf, we also consider as a line. You know, a lot of times people think it looks like a shape, but what it is, as long as you keep your brush in the middle of stroke, then that's a line. But by changing the pressure, you get light pressure, more pressure, light pressure. All right. So I show all the elements of this composition. Now we're going to quickly get to the composition. So I'm going to do the main trunk to cross over with the brush and then I'm going to do the side trunk with the pre orchid bamboo brush. So if you want a wider trunk, then make sure that your brush is split open more and then you dip the side a little bit more, a little bit longer. And then when I wanted to do the smaller trunk, I make the brush narrower and then dip a little bit longer. So then this will reduce the size of the trunk. So then I use the happy, the pre happy dot, make the knot. And then I also use the happy dot, pre happy dot to do the side little baby. And then I have the side trunk. Okay. And then I have a companion trunk on this side. So this time I'm going to show you how I use the pre orchid bamboo brush to do that. Then I use pre happy dot for the knot. All right. And then I'm going to do some bamboos. So this time I just use pre orchid bamboo straight ink. So first I'm doing the little one here and I'm going to do that. I think that I finished my bamboo composition. Hope you can have fun doing your bamboo. See you next time.