Chinese painting / Sumie course : painting plum blossom

Prepare cold pressed rice paper, hard and soft brushes (plus a mixed brush), ink, and a plate to study the plum blossom's structure—petals, stamens, and pedicles—and practice sketching live flowers.

Explore how to paint plum blossom branches in sumi-e by building younger branches with two-stroke technique, directing strokes up and down, handling brush pressure, and creating intersecting side branches.

Practice painting the old trunk using grey and black ink with dry, light, and hard brush strokes; contour branches and add mosses with light ink for a textured sumi-e composition.

Paint the old trunk with light ink and dry brush, leaving space for younger branches and moss. Let zigzag, crisscrossing limbs bear flowers and bugs on new twigs.

Explore the contour of petals from bud to blossom in plum blossom painting, guiding you through petal directions, centers, and stamens as you learn to portray opening flowers.

Master the contour of plum blossom petals from bud to blossom, exploring how petals can face various directions yet stay oriented upward.

Master the boneless technique for painting plum blossoms. Create petals with a soft brush by layering carmine, eosin, and cinnabar, and mix greens for the pedicles using blue and yellow.

Learn to paint plum blossoms from bud to bloom by arranging petals with pedicles, centers, and stamens, and mixing greens, reds, and blue accents across five-petal blooms.

Learn to arrange the stamens in a circle with varying lengths and overlaps, from front view to side view.

Learn to paint plum blossoms in sumi style by layering petal color, adding stamens at half-dry, using black or white with yellow, and dotting the center for detail.

Guide learners to vary the stamens' lengths, let them intersect behind the flower, deepen color, and complete a plum blossom painting in Sumie style.

Draw flowers from different directions like a clock, and draw the petals into a circle like a cup, keeping the petals round.

Begin by drawing the main branches and twigs, then add flowers facing different directions, mix green into red petals, and use ink to stamp stamens and connect petals to branches.

Combine rock and plum blossoms using blue and yellow to create greens; ink for dark greens, apply dry brush textures, contour rocks, and paint pink plum blooms with light-green highlights.

Demonstrates painting plum blossoms on pizhi paper using grey and black inks for branches, carmine red petals, and moss-like dark red accents, plus bees with yellow bodies.