Chinese watercolour painting was a very popular and loved style of painting thousands of years ago in China. There are many different categories with this medium but one of the most painted categorise was the Flower and Bird. It consisted of having one to three birds in the painting accompanied by a blossom tree or different kinds of flowers. The colour pallet of these paintings consist of bright colours with a white background. For this style it is acceptable to add nothing to the background, but as a result the flowers and the birds have to be carefully placed to create a flow in the painting.
The image to the right is an example of Chinese watercolour in the categories of Flower and Bird. When painting in this style it is critical to plan out where everything is going to be placed. Composition and Space play a big role in the creation of the painting. The first Blue Jay is placed as if it is looking up and the tail is towards the left corner of the paper which minimizes the negative space, the flower on the right corner balances and compliments the tail of the bird. The second bird also occupies the negative space that was in the middle. The paper usually used is pulp and bark it allows more paint to be used as the wood absorbs the water and doesn't leave a wavy texture, if regular paper would of been used. There are different types of brushes used but the most common one has a finer tip which gives a wide range of variations of lines for the artwork. In this painting the brush was used to create shading texture and lines in the making of the bird and flower. Lastly the painter thinks carefully where they are going to sign there name because it can either add beauty to it or it can throw off the the flow of the artwork. They seal it with a bright red, in this painting the seal looks like its part of the flowers.
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