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Demo
on Web
The
watercolor painting demonstration on this page shows Lian Zhen's floral
painting techniques.You can see more watercolor
and Chinese painting demos with similar and different methods on variety
subjects from three of his books published by North Light: Chinese
Painting Techniques for Exquisite Watercolors, Chinese
Watercolor Painting Techniques - Painting Animals
and Chinese
Watercolor Techniques for Exquisite Flowers, as
well as on his painting demo DVDs.
To purchase the books and painting demo DVDs, click Book
& Painting Demo DVDs
You can also
learn the techniques from Lian Zhen's workshops, click Workshops
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Chrysanthemum (watercolor)
18"x24" |
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use watercolor painting materials listed at the bottom of the Workshops
page on this web site.
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| Preparation
before painting: Put the three primary pigments into three small
dishes separately and dilute them with water to make color liquids
about medium tone. You need approximately 7 teaspoons of color liquid
from each color to finish this painting. |
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Step 2: Pour
the Yellow and Red liquids on the upper left of the painting and use mouth to
blow them in forming the shapes of the flowers. |
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Step
1: Sketch the composition on the watercolor paper with pencil.
Use masking tape to attach the perimeters of the paper on a firm board.
Next, use masking fluid to cover the three flowers at the focus point.
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Step 4:
Pour more color liquids on the painting and paint with similar method as step
3 using fingers and large brushes. Tilt the upper edge of the board about 4
inches higher so that the liquids can flow down toward the bottom to create
the stems. |
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Step 3:
Pour the Yellow and Blue liquids next to the flowers. Use fingers to guide and
blend the colors. Avoid over-mixing the liquids. |
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Step
5: Here you can see the whole painting after pouring and
blending. While the painting is wet, use a large brush to mix thick
and soft Blue and Red pigments into dark Blue to paint around the
flowers. |
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Step 6:
Wait until the painting completely dry. Use masking tape to lift the masking
on the three flowers. |
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Step 7:
Use a pencil to sketch the details of the flowers again if the original
sketching disappears. Take two mid-size round brushes to paint the flowers,
one for apply colors and the other for blending. |
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Step 8:
After for the first layer of the colors dry, use two small size brushes to defined
the petals, one for apply colors and the other for blending. To mix dark red
use the soft and thick Red and a little Blue. To mix orange use the Red and
Yellow. |
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Step 9:
When defining the petals, measure not to paint every one of them with same intensity
of colors, nor same level of details. |
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Step 10:
At the upper left of the painting, use a pencil to draw the shapes of flowers,
improvising from the effects of the color pouring and blowing. Then use negative
painting technique to define the petals. |
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Step 11:
Repeat the techniques on step 10 to call out
the flowers at the lower left of the painting.
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Step 12:
After finishing the flowers, paint the leaves and stems starting from the
focus point area. Use two brushes to define the objects with negative painting
technique. Put more dark value colors mixing from the Blue and Red around
the light flowers. |
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Step 13:
Paint more detail backgrounds around the focus point area. Do not defined
all the edges of the flowers in the same way. For those locate away from
the focus point such as the flowers at the upper and lower left some undefined
areas. |
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Step 14:
At the top of the painting, just briefly defined the buds. Leave the water
mark at right and the orangey color at middle top alone as suggestions of
flowers. |
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Step
15: Add a reddish dragonfly on top of the painting. It gives
more life to the flowers. On top of this page is the finished painting.
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Send mail to lianzhen@yahoo.com
with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2009 by Lian Zhen. Address: PO Box 33142, Reno, NV 89533 Tel:
510. 685.2654
Last modified January, 2009
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