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#24 Traditional Chinese Painting

Traditional Chinese Painting 

Topic: Creativity 

Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process. 

Every Saturday, my sister and I take Chinese at the Institute of Chinese Culture. This week we got the chance to practice traditional Chinese painting using ink brushes. We watched a few tutorials to guide us through the process. We learned to paint Chinese orchids and leaves. First, we practiced on scrap paper to make sure that we were familiar with the strokes before moving onto the full composition. 


The leaves were very simple and easy to paint but I had a lot of trouble with the flowers. They always turned out too blotchy. The petals didn't look right even though I experimented with different strokes.  The flowers from my painting don't resemble Chinese orchids, but they remind me of watercolor flowers that are decorate greeting cards. Although I wasn't able to recreate the shapes of the orchid flowers, they still looked nice. 


This inspired me to try painting watercolor flowers. I found tutorials on how to paint different flowers and found a new skill to practice. 







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