Simple Chinese Summer Landscape Painting Lesson Featuring Mineral Blue & Green & Antique Hemp Paper

This is Ling Chi, brush painting for beginners from Oriental Art Supply. Today we're going to demonstrate a landscape using stone green and stone blue, and both in one composition. We find a couple paintings in the book of Landscape in Four Seasons. So you can find them in the pages of there. Here is one, and we based on this one, but we simplified it. And so you can use this book to add on what we do today, but basically we were basing on this one. And then there's another one on page 61, which is next to it. And then you can also try to do this. But mostly techniques, we want to show you how to use them. And because very few books actually talk about it. There's samples of they using stone green and stone blue, but very rarely they talk about how to use it. So today we're going to do that. And we're going to use two brushes, three brushes. Medium mountain horse for light and some of the shade. And then small breeze and for some of the shade. And then, and then washes. We use, we're using a three inch wash brush. And the color I'm using here is the jar of stone green and stone blue. And then majority are chip color, plus orchid, plus Sakura white. And ink is Best Bottle Ink. Oh, the other thing I have using is for the shape, for the washes, I'm using Chinese watercolor, black tube and emerald green. So you can either use Bright Light brand or Marie's brand, but make sure they are not mixing two different brands together. So make sure that they are one brand. They are black and emerald green. So now we're going to start with our line work. We are using the medium mountain horse brush and medium ink for the initial line work. The outer line work is shorter. As we go along each layer, the center line becomes longer. And there's like a Y shape of crevices of the mountain. This is first group of mountain, the second group. So one long, one short. They are never the same length. So now I finished my line work. And then I'm going to accent some parts of the line work with straight ink. So this is just ink directly out of the bottle. So it's darker. So the area I wanted to do the darker ink is on the top of the mountain and then the crevices. All right. And then we're going to use the mountain horse medium brush. This time I'm going to make it, make sure that it's very wet. So I'm loading the intense black ink, blend the tip. So, and then this is the crevices. So now this is the things that you should often to do. If the ink push it too much to the, to upper the body of the brush, then I lose all the transparency. So then I wash it. So on here, so you can see that I wanted to have that transparency. And then this part, and this is the crevices. All right. And then I'm going to do some, fill the mountain with some green and orchid. So how do I make the orchid? This is a chip burnt sienna add with yellow, and then that makes my orchid. And then here is the green, which is a chunk yellow with indigo. So now I'm going to use our new little breeze brush. So it's, so it's, has enough body to show the transparency, but it's still small enough to cover the area. Okay. And then we're going to do some orchid here. So this is host, and I have a small orchid area and here is the guest. So one large area, one small area that I'm going back on the green. So I'm using a little bit medium ink in the tip. All right. This is finished my initial top of the mountain. Now I'm going to do a little bit tip of the ink in the middle. So this is my initial mountain, and you need to wait it completely dry before you do the washes. And now I'm going to change to the paper that I had before I initially already painted. And then there's a dryer. So now I'm going to use my three inch wash. Oh, first I'm going to spray the painting wet. All right. And then now it's time. We're going to use the stone blue. Okay. The stone blue, I use our jar of stone blue, and then I add sky blue to it to make it brighter. So then I'm using breeze brush, little breeze brush, and then make sure that my brush is pretty dry. So I want to have this intense stone blue. So the second of this layer is here. So then the third is this tip. Okay. Then we're going to use some stone green. So this stone green is right up from the jar. Make it thick. So you can see this area is bigger and this area is smaller. And then a little tiny bit here. All right. And then we're going to do the sky. Evan, I'm going to take a break here. On the sky, I'm wetting my three inch wash brush. And I load the purple first. The purple is indigo chip red and sakura white. So I load about one third. And then I blend. And then I kind of wash off the tip a little bit. And then I'm going to tip the vanilla and then blend. So I'm going to do, so the two side is a little bit deeper than the middle. And then I'm reloading the purple one third and stroke it off and wash and vanilla. And then I'm going to do, then I will turn my brushes upside down and then a little bit here. Okay. And then I'm going to finish my shade color. So this is, I talk about it, is Chinese tube color black and emerald green. So I'm going to load my wash brush about one third again and then the tip with the black. This is my shade color. So I'm going to, so this is my shade color. It started from the bottom. One third of green and tip with black, tip with the black. And then I'm going to do some mix on the foothill of the, on the foothill of the mountain. So roll your brush so you'll have a tip. I have some dry area. Oh, and then here. So what I'm going to do quickly, I'm going to use my little grease brush with some purple and to soften some of the area. Okay. This is my landscape with stone green and stone blue. Happy painting. We'll see you next time. Bye.