Plum blossom painting method

Plum blossom painting method is as follows:

1, to double hook method of painting the front plum blossom, a brush stroke into a petal, pay attention to the start of the brush and the staccato.

2, outline the second petal, the shape of the petal depends on the opening of the flower head and the location of the observation point.

3. Pay attention to the articulation between each petal.

4. The full-open plum blossom flower head is composed of five nearly round petals, which can be added stroke by stroke and are basically equal in size.

5, painting the stamen to hold the wrist, the line should be fine and strong, not thick, not weak, not blotchy, each line should be consistent throughout, the pen in place. A good-looking plum blossom is completed.

Morphological features:

Plum (scientific name: PrunusmumeSiebold&Zucc.): small trees, sparse shrubs, 4-10 meters high; bark light gray or greenish, smooth; branchlets green, smooth and hairless. Leaf blade ovate or elliptic, margins often sharply serrulate, gray-green. Flowers solitary or sometimes 2 together in 1 bud, 2-2.5 cm in diam., strongly scented, opening before leaves.

The calyx is usually reddish-brown, but some varieties have green or greenish-purple calyxes; petals obovate, white to pink. Fruit subglobose, 2-3 cm in diam., yellow or greenish white, pilose, with an acidic flavor; pulp pasted with the nucleus; nucleus ellipsoid, slightly compressed on both sides. Fl. winter-spring, fr. May-June.

The plum blossom is the first of China's top ten flowers, together with orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemums as the Four Gentlemen, and with the pine, bamboo and known as the "three friends of the cold". In traditional Chinese culture, plum with its noble, strong, modest character, giving people the will to inspire. In the cold, the plum first of a hundred flowers, only the world and spring.