CORRESPONDENCE COURSE vegetable painting summary

Chinese artists like to keep compositions of vegetable painting simple. They also like to include items like insects, small animals, baskets or Chinese bowls in the final works. We shall keep this tradition going in this correspondence course.

LESSON 1 Introduction, materials and equipment, basic techniques, wrist movement and elbow movement, press and lift technique, two-tone and two-colour loading, side brushstrokes. Painting Chinese leaves, Pak Choi, chillies

LESSON 2 Painting onion, ginger, garlic, spring onion, Chinese bowl

LESSON 3 Painting mushroom, aubergine, bamboo shoot, beetles

LESSON 4 Painting capsicum, tomato, gourd, prawn

LESSON 5 Painting carrot, cucumber, marrow, courgette, parsnip, basket

LESSON 6 Painting turnip, swede, mooli, radish, beetroot, grasshopper

LESSON 7 Painting sweet potato, potato, taro, mouse

LESSON 8 Painting lotus root, lotus seedpod, lotus flower, frog

LESSON 9 Painting pes, bean, cabbage white butterfly, chives, lemon grass, bay leaves, coriander

LESSON 10 Painting pumpkin, squash, a wire basket

In this course, you shall have step-by-step instructions for painting many vegetables and how to group them together to form composition of artworks.

If you are interested in this course, email me.

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