Wei’s Classroom

In this section, Wei helps you understand how Chinese painting is produced by demonstrating the step-by-step procedure involved.

Painting Animals:

To make paintings of animals, brush strokes are used to provide both the outline and the body simultaneously. Each stroke has to be placed carefully in such a way as to produce the actual animal's form. When painting animals such as a panda, cat or monkey for example, it is important to create the effect of fur. This is achieved by using a wet brush and working the body shape slowly to allow the ink to spread over the body form.

A Panda Painting:
- Start with the shape of the head and body by using two strokes
in grey ink.
- Using black ink, add the ears.
- Continue to use black ink to paint in the eyes, nose and mouth.
- Using single strokes of black ink, paint in the panda's eye patches.
- Finally, finish off with the arms,hands, legs and feet using black ink to create a fur texture. Add the talons by using a feathered brush.

"How to Paint a Panda the Chinese Way" :
For details, please refer to Wei's painting tutorial video or follow the step-by-step pictorial details given below.

 

Wei's tutorial video

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