The Painting of Lotus - Series of Books on Freehand Flower Painting Techniques

Author: Mao
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Publish Date: 2004-12-27
Features: Lotus is one of the most beloved flowers among the Chinese people. Whenever the lotus blooms, its delicate beauty, graceful posture, and enchanting charm has always been admired by scholars and artists throughout history. Generations of painters have dedicated their leisure time to depicting the lotus, persistently capturing its essence. Renowned for its purity, the lotus has broad leaves like a canopy, large flowers with long stems, and emerges from the mud unstained, earning it many beautiful aliases. The reason why painting the lotus is favored by many freehand bird-and-flower painters lies in its artistic characteristics. The lotus's appearance and posture allow for easy expression of the brushwork and rhythm of freehand bird-and-flower painting. Its large leaves, large flowers, and long stems, combined with the spatial contrast between the sky and water and the surrounding aquatic plants such as reeds, lotus roots, and duckweed, provide ample room for creativity. The combination of dots, lines, and planes during brushwork construction, as well as the application of opposing and unifying principles like thickness, size, dryness, wetness, density, and spacing, offers great potential for artistic expression. The beauty of the lotus is so beloved, but how can one paint it well? First and foremost, one must understand the structure, shape, color, and growth patterns of the lotus, as well as its living conditions under different climatic conditions (such as wind, clear weather, rain, and dew).