How to draw a peony well? Analysis of steps and techniques?
Art comes from life and is higher than life. It is the author’s knowledge and understanding of the natural environment and social life. I like nature, especially peonies. Peony is one of the favorite flower varieties of the Chinese people. Because the peony flower shape is graceful and luxurious, it reflects people's yearning for happiness and a better life, so it is said to be the flower of wealth. The steps of painting peonies in fine brushwork are briefly analyzed below, for your reference only.
How to draw delicate pink and purple peonies
1. Tools and materials needed to draw fine brushwork peonies.
1. Pen: For beginners, prepare a hard pen for drawing lines. Just two large white cloud pens for coloring and a clear water pen.
2. Ink: oil smoke or pine smoke ink.
3. Inkstone: one is Duan inkstone, the other is She inkstone, clean them after use.
4. Rice paper: Meticulously painted peonies generally use cooked rice paper, such as clear water calligraphy and painting, ice and snow xuan, calligraphy and painting paper, cicada clothes, alum cotton, and mica chamber.
2. Pigments: Chinese painting pigments are basically divided into two categories, namely plant colors and mineral colors.
3. Hooking method
1. The fingers are strong and the palms are weak.
Gongbi Peony Brush Techniques
2. When using the pen in the center, the speed of the pen should be even and the strength of the pen should be rhythmic.
3. Use your pen in a subtle way.
4. The color of ink changes, and it is said that ink has five colors.
4. Several common dyeing methods for coloring.
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1. Flat coating method: fill the color evenly into the range that should be painted. The color should be light and thin.
2. Rendering method: Hold two pens in one hand and use them alternately to make the color transition naturally from dark to light.
How to render meticulous peonies?
3. Contrast method: Contrast the color on the back of the rice paper to make the color on the front more intense and gorgeous.
4. Dyeing method: Render the background to make the peony flower theme stand out.
5. Dot dyeing method: Dip the brush into a rich color and apply it drop by drop to form a convex surface with a strong three-dimensional effect, also known as the standing powder method.
6. Unified dyeing method: Unified dyeing only emphasizes the overall relationship, just dye it once.
The steps of painting peony flowers in fine brushwork: outline with light ink.
The first step: the peony flower is light pink and purple, use light ink to outline, and medium ink to outline the leaves, young leaves, and petioles.
Coloring steps: flat coating method.
Step 2: Apply white powder flatly on the flower head (do not paint the outermost ink line of the corolla, but paint all the inner ink lines) two to three times, apply grass green flatly on the main leaves two to three times, and juice green Flat coat the reversed leaves, buds, receptacles and flower stalks.
Coloring steps: dyeing method.
The third step: add magenta and rouge and a little garcinia to dye the petals, and rouge and a little eosin to dye the center of the flower. You need to dye it layer by layer, don't dye it all at once, as this will make the painting stiff. The leaves on the front are dyed with floral green ink, leaving a waterline. The cyanine dyes the receptacle, reverse leaves and buds.
Coloring steps: cover dyeing method.
Step 4: Dye the flower heads with white powder, dye the positive leaves with grass green, and dye the reverse leaves, petioles, receptacles, and young leaves with Garcinia plus three greens and Zhu Qi.
Step 5: Add magenta and rouge to continue dyeing the petals, use cyan ink to dye the front leaves, and cyan ink to dye the back leaves, receptacles, buds, and petioles. Add rouge water to garcinia and add white powder to the stamens. The rouge hooks the leaf tendons, and the rouge water dyes the leaf tips and petioles.
Coloring steps: lift dyeing method.
Step 6: Use white powder to dye the bright parts of the flower heads, and cyan ink to dye the dark parts of the leaves. Finally, adjust the relationship between leaves and flowers and leaves and leaves. Signed and stamped.
Have you mastered the step-by-step technique of painting peonies in meticulous flower-and-bird painting?