Chinese Landscape Painting Class

Aug
8:00pm
Chinese Landscape Painting Class

By Nan Rae Studio
Chinese Landscape Painting
This is where the journey began for all Eastern Landscape paintings. We'll start our study with the following overview to give you a fuller understanding of what Asian Landscape painting is. What will be covered in the first lesson is underlined and in bold.
1. Your Private Journey
Copying Master paintings
Painting Method
2. The Bigger Picture
Northern Sung School
Southern School
Scholar Paintings
3. Ni Tsan, Master Painter of Yuan Period
Style & Method
Examples
4. Further Ni Tsan Text
His thoughts on painting
Examples
5. Summing up Ni Tsan
Personal perception of truth
Three Levels in Landscape
Brushwork Description example
6. Thoughts on Contradictions in Styles
Example / Ni Tsan
Ni Tsan subject for beginning students of Chinese Landscape Painting. The first class in this series will be a demonstration on this.  (If you’ve covered this painting before, additional subjects will be included for you.)
7. Wang Yuan Ch’i
Painting like Ni Tsan
8. The Harmony of Heaven and Earth after Ni Tsan
Liu Yu
Examples
Mei Qing
Examples
Yang Jin
Examples
9. Color
Symbolism
Black is a color
Detachment
Placement
10. Understanding Style
Construction
Artistic Elements
Line Work
Taoism & Buddhist Influences
Integrity of Abstraction
Illusion, Perception and Perspective
Paradox of Opposites
Grasp of the “Ungraspable”
Forms Reduced to “Essences”
Twelve Faults to Avoid
More Thoughts
Special Notes on Trees
11. Within the Three “Categories”
Two Main Principals
Linear Perspective
Atmospheric Perspective
12. Achieving Life, Texture, Wash, and Tonality Demo
Texture Awareness
13. Lesson on Trees
Example
The Pine - This will be demonstrated
14. Meaning Behind the Mountains
Rocks and Mountains briefly
Note: We will study this in depth in a future class
15. Mind Landscapes
C.C Wang, a Contemporary
The Grand Sythesis
Brushwork, Texture, Color, Composition, Content
Value Tensions
Crumpled Texture - I’ll demonstrate this at the end of this first lesson
More on Methods
The 5th Canon
16. Monumental Style
Kung Hsein
Examples
Hemp fiber and Small Ax cut modeling texture methods that will be discussed in the class on ‘forming rocks and mountains’
Example of Kung Hsien
17. Figure for your landscape plus pagoda and small boat.
This will be demonstrated
18. Rapid Painting Demonstration
Supplies You'll be Needing:
Felt
Landscape Paper
Water Container
Paper towel
Brushes:
Best Detail
Med Vine or Fine Detail
Mountain Horse or Basic Soft
2 1/2 Wash Brush
Colors
Ink
Chinese Vermilion
Alizarin Crimson
Chinese Yellow
Burnt Sienna
Indigo
Sap Green
Perylene Green
Cobalt Violet
Quinacridone Gold
Neutral Tint
Note: You can substitute any of the colors with what you have.
You can also use Marie's watercolor
Supplies are available at nanraestudio.com/supplies
For colors, you can purchase on Amazon or dickblick.com
You'll be receiving a copy of Nan Rae's class handout (86 pages pdf) via email when you register. You'll also have the opportunity to submit your work for Nan for critique, join the class's private Facebook group, and ZOOM class meeting (a week after class).
All online classes are recorded, so if you can't make it to the live class, you can still sign-up and watch the replay of the class, which will be available a few minutes right after class. This also means that students that signed up for the class and joined live can watch the whole class again anytime!
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