God of Longevity 壽星 Chinese Figure Painting 工筆人物畫

Google Chinese paintings 壽星圖
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=%...
壽星 the god of longevity; a person whose birthday is being celebrated

Flickr samples
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artvirtue/4841804991/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artvirtue/4841804945/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artvirtue/4842422632/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artvirtue/4842422654/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Draft & sketching: charcoal (torso, about 20 minutes); pencil (flower patterns, about 30 minutes)
Total time used: about 5 hours in three days
Video speeds: Due to lengthy recording, most clips and excerpts are sped up to 150% with VideoStudio. Drawing with brush strokes are sped up to 140%. At 3:42, the second time sketching is original speed to reflect the relationships between Chinese calligraphy Zhuan Shu and Chinese brush painting sketching.

Brushes used: zero brush from www.orientalartsupply.com & various kinds
Paper used: sized Xuan paper from Anhui Province
Ink used: oil soot ink stick (no bottled ink)
Colors used: Marie's Chinese watercolor
http://cgi.ebay.com/CHINESE-CALLIGRAPHY-PAINTING-COLOR-18-COLORS-/37049296029...

Brush stroke techniques: Chinese calligraphy seal styles & limited kinds of 十八描
http://www.art-virtue.com/history/shang-zhou/shang-zhou.htm
combinations of round strokes (most parts) & side strokes

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Search keywords are 國畫 工筆 人物畫 書法 书法
Both online bookstores have English customer services. They offer competitive low prices for over 1,000 Chinese calligraphy and painting books, DVDs, models, dictionaries, and etc for all levels.

www.orientalartsupply.com (many books in both English and Chinese texts)
www.asiade.com (many books in store but not listed online - Chinese texts)

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Filename: LongevityGod-ChineseFigurePainting-AverageSPEED150-ExcerptsOnly-July2010.wmv

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Education

Tags:

• painting and drawing
• Chinese painting
• watercolor
• Sized Xuan paper
• Chinese figure painting
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• brush
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• 國畫
• 工筆
• 人物畫
• 壽星
• 道釋人物
• Gongbi
• Gong Bi
• meticulous style
• fineline style
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[lesserjocki]

Are you using sized paper?

[artvirtue]

@lesserjocki Yes. The sources are listed in More Info.



[bbornets]

Joshua, I did not realize a third time of repetition is needed. Now I have a much clearer idea of what my teacher was teaching me. Thank you so much.

[artvirtue]

@bbornets Depending on the genre and style of the subject, layers of colorations will help.

[seniorwisdom]

talent!

[artvirtue]

@seniorwisdom Thank you.

[artvirtue]

@leisititine1 This one took me about 5 hours.

Thank you. Have a nice day.

[leisititine1]

Un travail de vrai patience!

Félicitations!

[artvirtue]

@ebooksnet I like Chinese figure painting since they are very characteristic.

[ebooksnet]

I hope to see more interesting Chinese figures. They are very lively, interesting, and may be not confined by Western perspectives.