The oriental landscape painting is a reflection of the relationship between human and nature, it represents the connection between the natural world around us and our own inner spiritual world. The landscape painting takes limited amount of scenery to express our understanding of the universe, our affection towards the land that feeds us, and the society that supports us.

The landscape painting is imbedded in the general framework of water-ink painting, which is a painting style that utilizes mainly ink and water to express our understanding of the relationship mentioned above. The simple play of ink could create endless charm through the layers of black, grey and white, via the fast and slow, moist and dry brush strokes.

Objective

In our many courses of the landscape painting exploration, each time we could only focus on one or a few of the said techniques, but practice makes perfect. So in this course we will focus on:

1. The usage of the 5 shades of ink

2. 2 ways of painting snow

3. Perspectives

4. We will practice with a long and vertical style of landscape, featuring a snowy scenery

Materials

You will need ink, at least 1 small and 1 big painting brush, raw or half-raw Xuan rice paper, and other supporting supplies for this course. This part is explained in the introduction section.

You will receive downloadable course syllabus at the end of the theory part.

This is a course best to be taken after your have taken the Tree Painting and Landscape Scenery courses, but if you would like to start with this one, it will also be ok.