The Art Dojo | Finger Painting, Chinese Brush Painting, Chinese Calligraphy, Art Therapy http://theartdojo.com Home of the finger painting, Chinese brush painting, Chinese calligraphy, and art therapy master. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:20:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HOW TO PAINT A CAT STALIKING A PREY ? http://theartdojo.com/how-to-paint-a-cat-staliking-a-prey/ http://theartdojo.com/how-to-paint-a-cat-staliking-a-prey/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:20:57 +0000 admin http://theartdojo.com/?p=403 HOW TO PAINT A CAT STALIKING A PREY ? is a post from: The Art Dojo | Finger Painting, Chinese Brush Painting, Chinese Calligraphy, Art Therapy

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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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Q-More challenging to paint a bird
The students reflect that they don’t see the flaws in their paintings, until the whole picture is in front of them and on the board. Thank you Dr Tan for correcting their art pieces.
That’s the way to learn.
The students add: but not many of us take it gracefully, that is to say that our pieces are not right and need to be commented on to see where we go wrong. Thanks for Dr Tan, keep it up !

One of students say: as for me, drawing birds are my weakness. Anyway I did try. My second piece on the sparrow on the maize plant was indeed an eye opener. But it takes a lot of effort from me, not that I am complaining. have to see to housework and mother, takes a lot of my time. But I always make time to enjoy the works you taught.

Q-What are the key points to be aware?
This piece and the bird on the pomegranate tree is really challenging. We have to see to proportion of the bird and the fruit of the pomegranate and branches of the tree too.

The sketch was important in the first place. Applying colors was not hard.

Q-How to do coloring?

Tree trunk and branches are to be painted in brown. Note the tones. This gives the texture of bark.
Must take note of the flow of branches. Where the fruit appears, we must make sure that branch is strong enough to bear it. One mistake which is shortening it to make way for the branch to flow down thus causing the position of the branch an unnatural looks ,is a mistake

Bird – Attention is made to its beak, wings, tail and legs. Load brush with yellow and tip indigo to apply on beak. Yellow and orange and red for the throat and breast.

Turquoise on top of wing and progress of indigo to the feathers tip. Dots are applied to the middle back of bird to offer 3-D effect and people’s eyes will focus on it.The neck needs the ‘furry’ touch. Light red is applied.

Now comes the pomegranate (the main one on the left). Do not divide the fruit with a line down in the center. Gradually merge your colors after dotting the seeds with carmine. Wow, the effect is beautiful. As I have said in the previous pieces, colors are applied layer by layer. It does not matter, just apply light tones in the beginning followed by darkening it in the next round. As to the other three fruits on the right, carmine should merge with turquoise to give an effect of ripening. There is contrast with no lines.
This can only be done when the location is wet.

Indigo on the leaves. Make sure the tone is there to offer shadow effect.
So much for now. Look forward to next week’s lesson.

Contact: tanart60@yahoo.com.sg

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]]> http://theartdojo.com/sharing-with-members-on-artuniversity/feed/ 0 HOW TO PAINT ANGELFISH ? http://theartdojo.com/how-to-paint-angelfish/ http://theartdojo.com/how-to-paint-angelfish/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 07:19:43 +0000 admin http://theartdojo.com/?p=392 HOW TO PAINT ANGELFISH ? is a post from: The Art Dojo | Finger Painting, Chinese Brush Painting, Chinese Calligraphy, Art Therapy

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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’ ?》
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

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This painting is easy for the beginners .Just try it.
Surely, you will like it.
The main theme for this painting is to show motherly love.
Mum carries a kitten in the mouth.
Q-How to paint a Mother cat
To use simple shapes to depict 2 cats.
First draw a triangle, then a big circle for the head, Draw 2 ears on the head.
Ears are in triangles shape . The eyes are slant. The lower parts slant towards the nose. The nose is a triangle. The mouth is just 2 strokes like the moustache. They leap are triangles.
Q-How to paint a kitten?
Draw a small circle to show the head of the kitten beside the head of mother cat.
But the circle is not very round. The eyes are closed in contrast mum’s open eyes.
Kitten is black with the right tone.
Bear in mind to outline cats must use vertical strokes.
CONTACT: D r Tan Ching Yam
Email- tanart60@yahoo.com.sg

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“Hello Birdy” is a NEW series of my MANGA.
Two artworks here, which one do you like the BEST?( A or B.)
Give me ONE reason and I will forward my painting to you.
Contact: Dr Tan
tanart60@yahoo.com.sg

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