Lesson 25: Southern Song Style Landscape
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Ma Yuan and Xia Gui of Southern Song are my favorite artists in Chinese art history. Their style of mountains and water had a significant influence on the Japanese sumi and the Chinese landscape painting in later periods. In this class I will introduce the composition of one-corner landscape, the axe-cut texture strokes to draw rocks and the double-brush wash technique to paint the mist and clouds in a step by step live workshop setting.
Video Length: 2.0 hours
Demos and Assignments
1. Copy the misty Southern Song landscape painting by Anonymous Southern Song painter with cicada wing paper.
If you don't have cicada wing paper you may also use sized Xuan, stonebridge or semi-sized Xuan paper or mulberry paper.
2. Basic landscape elements: Pima shaping lines and Mi-Fei style horizontal dots.
For this practice You may use any rice paper, sized, semi-sized or unsized, but for first assignment, you must use none absorbent or semi-absorbent paper.
Handout and finished painting as seen in the video are included in the handouts.
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