HOW TO PAINT A CAT STALIKING A PREY ?

How to paint a cat stalking a prey?
Q-About the cat-
The cat could see at night but we cannot. Cats are human’s being friend.
It like to go around man’s legs when you are friendly with them. They like areas which are warm.
Q-Points to remember:
1- Draw the head first, follow by the body(which means draw a small circle following by a big circle.)
2- Draw 2 small circles 9as the eyes),the nose and the ears.
3- Draw the chest,2 legs(in front),2 paws.
4- Draw the back leg(bigger size)
5- The body was 2 folds and draw 2 folds behind the head.
6- Use a dry brush to draw the head, eye, face and the mouth.
Color the nose orange in color. Make sure the face has whiskers.
7- Draw the front legs with dark ink and also draw the paws.
8- Touch up the head with different strokes to show the 3 dimension.
9- Color the eyes in green color.
Q-Add background of the cat-
1- Draw a flower tree as background of the cat.
2- Draw two flowers, one in front and one at the side(back view),including the branches of the flower tree.
3- Draw a few buds and leaves of the tree.
4- Mix yellow and red color(make it 2 –tone) and color the flowers and the buds.
5- Use the balance of color(for the flower) and highlight on the outline of the cat.
6- Use very light green and shade-up the different joints of the cat and on the surroundings of the face.
7- Draw a few strokes as the ground.
CONTACT : Dr Tan Ching Yam
anart60@yahoo.com.sg

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HOW TO PAINT ANGELFISH ?

How To Draw Angelfish ?
Q-About Angelfish
-3 main parts: Head, Body , Tail and Fins
-A fish has got two large whiskers
Q-Why draw angelfish?
It is very beautiful in shape.Its shape is attractive, like a diamond in a whole.
Q-How to paint Angelfish?
-Start from the eye. Then the head.
Get the right tone of the ink to draw the head,Followed by the mouth ,the gill covers.
Then draw the upper the upper part of the body and .the stomach.
Draw 2 strokes for the tail.
Draw the dorsal fin with just one stroke. Draw the vertical fins.Draw one thin lines to show details of the fins.
Draw a small patch for the side fins.
Use yellow and indigo to obtain greenish color .Draw the stripes with green color.
Stripes are irregular lengths.
Draw black stroke on the green patches to show stripes of different color.
A dark patch on the head .Light ink on the tail and fins.
Thin dark strokes for the fins and tail.
Q-How to paint water weeds?
The shape of water weeds is look like a fan- shape.
Draw seven short strokes to look like grass.
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HOW TO PAINT LAN ORCHID ?

《How to paint ‘Lan Orchid’ ?》
Q-About Lan Orchid
-Lan Orchid（兰花） in the Chinese painting is a small wild grass but not the same as we see in Singapore.-The lan orchid is much admired in Chinese painting because of its grace and exquisite beauty.
-Orchid is no piece of cake. In color and its morphology, the orchid is much simpler than other flower ;it seems at first blush to be just a combination of dots and lines. But the difficulty in orchid painting lies precisely in this simplicity. Because of the higher artists requirements of orchid painting, it has become an important means in training in the use of ink and brush in Chinese painting.
Q-How to paint Orchid blades?
-To make every stroke count, the botched strokes has no place hide.
-Use vertical stroke to paint the orchid leaves and leaves are thinner and the both end, for longer leaves using the strokes y slight lifting the brush ,press down as you continue and lift and press down again before lifting to exit. The press down create fatter in the leaves as know as the ‘ grasshopper stomach’(螳螂肚).
-The second leaf crosses the first leaf to form ‘feng yan’ (凤眼)or the eye of the phoenix .Do not make the eye too small, otherwise you will have a hard time adding more leaves across it. The leaves should not quite touch at the base. The third leaf is called the ‘po feng yan’ (破凤眼)or the one that breaks the phoenix eye.
Q-How to paint flowers?
-The flower needs to show the color tone.
-Fully bloomed orchids have five petals. If you look at your hand with your thumb and middle –finger tip touching, the shape make closely resembles an orchid.
-With the stroke for each petal, the first two strokes for the central two petals are usually very close together form also the phoenix eye. The third stroke should be smaller and broke the phoenix eye. The fourth and the fifth strokes are more open, one each side.
-Dark ink dots show the stamens, three for each flower. At the center of inflorescence is a funnel shape, which is where the stamen supposes to be.
-The flowers should bloom in all different directions and show both buds and fully blooming flowers.
-When painting multi-flowers, you can paint the flower first before connecting them to stalk and the stalk should follow the leaves. The flower is joining by a small stem to the stalk.
CONTACT: Dr Tan Ching Yam/ tanart60@yahoo.com.sg