Lecture on the Basics of Chinese Painting｜Peony "Scholar's Red" Dyeing Procedure

Scholar's Red: a traditional variety of peony, with purplish-red flowers, pinkish-white at the end of full bloom, hard outer petals with purplish-red halo at the base. The inner petals are hard, folded and sparse, with anthers often remaining at the ends; there are also a few stamens between the petals; the pistil is reduced to a small size or slightly petalized. Leaves luxuriant; flower buds small, rounded pointed; pedicel thin hard and short, flowers straight up or side opening. Medium-flowered varieties, plants of medium height, semi-decurrent. Branches stout, annual branches long, short internodes; scale buds rounded, the end easy to crack.

Cinnabar red is a traditional color inherent in Chinese painting, symbolizing joy and good fortune. Ink leaves and red peonies are paired with strong contrasts in color, with harmonious and steady tones, and the flowers are even more gorgeous, making them comfortable to look at without being fiery. Therefore, this piece of red peony uses ink color to dye the leaves.

Step 1: Draw a good draft and outline the lines with ink. Since the flower head is red, heavy ink can be used to outline the flower head.

Use heavy ink to outline the leaves.

Outline the calyx, pedicel and petiole in medium ink.

Note that the lines should be hooked crisply, and the brushwork should be coherent and finished in one go.

The peony branches and trunks of the old trunks are outlined in medium ink with a dry brush.

Step 2: Mix light vermilion and paint the flower head.

Dye the leaves with light ink, leaving a white line. Pay attention to the leaves before and after the dye, depth changes.

Peony old trunk with medium ink color chafing.

Step 3: Dye the flower head with cinnabar, the color of the front petal is dark, the color of the back petal is slightly lighter, to dye the front and back petal depth change. Also note that the edge of the petal color light, the root of the petal color deep, the transition should be natural.

Adjust the light ink and dye the leaves again, dyeing out the sense of hierarchy.

Adjust the grass green dyeing calyx, pedicel, anti-leaf and petiole.

After the ink is chapped and dried, mix ochre ink to enhance the color.

Step 4: use eosin + rouge and blend, from the root of the petals to the edge of the petals dyeing, with color to thin, can be more dyeing a few times, until the color to achieve the desired effect.

After the picture is dry, use rouge + eosin to dye the center of the flower.

Dye the calyx, pedicel, antipode and petiole with four greens.

Dye the bract shell with rouge and lift the petiole groove.

Split-stain some leaf tips with ochre and rouge.

After drying at the center of the flower, hook the filaments with white powder, and then dot the stamens with garcinia + white powder.

Step 5: Dye the old dried moss points with heavy ink, and then overdye the stone green.

Organize the picture, inscribe and seal.

Step 5: Organize the picture, inscribe the title and seal.