My friend Daniel gave me a book on Chinese Brush Painting. Although I have owned for years now three or four Chinese brushes and a few sheets of rice paper, I was not ready for this undertaking, and chose to continue with watercolor, since I have recently enjoyed it so much (and my vacation was getting to an end, so I went for the most gratifying process.)
It took me several attempts sketching the figure to keep to realistic proportions (the man still has a slightly too big head and too short a torso), I used a Pentel black ink Brushpen, which performs wonderfully on really thin and thick lines:
I then erased the pencil and turned to watercolor. I used alizarin crimson for the flowers:
I added a few touches of black with my Brushpen to create the details of the flowers. I prepared yellow watercolor and painted the hat by drawing rays and leaving some white. I darkened my yellow with yellow ochre and added a few touches to the hat and went on painting the skin. I darkened further the mix with a bit of burnt sienna to paint the stick. Lastly I mixed a bit of turquoise and white to paint the belt.
I added water to my ochre/brown mix and with a light wash painted the background so the white robe would stand out. Here is the resulting painting framed (12.2×17.2 cm):
Hello Marjorie, I am not finding it anywhere other than the book which says the artist is called Fan Zeng.
Hi, would you please have the kindness to inform me what the original brush painting name is? Or if you have any détails about it, in that mentioned book?
Thank you so much. Have a very nice sunday, Marjorie
Beautiful! I forgot how much I liked Chinese brush painting!
Thanks!