★A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Ancient-Style Watercolor Flowers! Step-by-step foundational knowledge and core guidance on freehand painting make it easy for anyone to start learning.
★Nature-Inspired Beauty: This book showcases the elegance of flowers through a unique blend of traditional Chinese freehand watercolor techniques. It combines the essence of both Chinese painting and watercolor art, using lines as the primary means of expression and watercolor to capture the spirit of flowers.
★Ideal for Enthusiasts and Academia: Suitable not only for watercolor and traditional Chinese painting enthusiasts but also as a valuable learning resource for college students in fine arts and design programs.

*A harmonious fusion of Western art and traditional Chinese culture, this book presents exquisite ancient-style illustrations using watercolor as the medium. It embodies the grandeur and artistic conception of traditional Chinese painting while retaining the characteristics of watercolor art.

In terms of the structure of the text, the book has been carefully designed.
The first three chapters have introduced the basics, especially the mystery of lines. Meanwhile, It summarizes the four main points of line drawing, so that you can intuitively understand and master the method of drawing lines, and prepare the skills of shape control sketch.The fourth chapter explains the method of drawing pen light color draft, mainly according to the color principle, on the basis of shape control sketch, for the picture color. The fifth chapter is the core part of the book, which aims to achieve a certain style and artistic conception of painting without the bondage of line drawing. In this chapter, six simple local demonstrations and 20 sample analyses of different flowers are arranged to extract the key points of techniques from examples. With detailed graphic steps and key and difficult video explanation, to help you quickly master the method of undrafted painting.
In addition, it also emphasizes the importance of sketching. Before explaining the steps of painting without manuscripts, there are pencil-light color sketching manuscripts. They also pay great attention to the expression of artistic conception. It uses the dry and wet sexes of watercolor painting materials to unify form and god, motion and static, virtual and real, feeling and scene, so as to provide reference for everyone to carry out their own painting practice.

He Yue

He Yue, whose pseudonym is Huaniang, is a well-known illustrator and independent teacher.
She is good at combining the strong rendering of watercolor painting with the aesthetic conception of Chinese painting.
In 2016, he founded the painting studio "The Happiness of Flower Brew", opened online teaching courses, and produced a series of open video courses, which are deeply loved by everyone.

Chapter One Art Supplies
The brush
Pigment
Watercolor
YanCai
The paper
Other art supplies
Outdoor art supplies

Chapter Two Line performance and shape control ability
Line drawing
The thickness of the line
The flexibility of lines
The rhythm and rhythm of lines
Pay attention to the space
How to capture lines
Point, line, plane
The sketch
Exercise shape control ability
Tracing diagram
Photo sketching - peach blossom
The drawing of flower stamens
Physical sketch – camellia

Chapter Three The basic principle of three colors
Three elements of color
Hue
Lightness
The purity
Three primary colors, compound colors, warm and cold colors
Three primary colors
Composite color
Warm and cool colors

Chapter Four Pen Pale Color
The peach blossom
Camellia

Chapter Five Painted without Manuscripts
Basic writing
Simple demonstration
A single blade
A few leaves
Branchlets leaves
Single petal
Single many cherry blossoms
Branchlets cherry blossom
Example analysis
Copper grass
Trumpet creeper
Azalea
Camellia
Corn poppy
Sit haitang
Yellow triloba
Peony
Nasturtium
Cotton rose
The peach blossom
Pear flower
The jasmine
The other shore flower
Endless summer hydrangea
Lotus
Moonlit osmanthus
Wisteria
The cherry blossom
Luminous white lotus

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