Classical Art: Non-Western Cultures - WetCanvas: Online Living for Artists

This topic has 107 replies, 12 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 11 months ago by SparowHawk7 Moderator Drawing and Sketching.

Viewing 15 posts - 16 through 30 (of 108 total)

Author

Posts
October 21, 2009 at 9:04 pm #1125704
gakinme
Default
Thank you, Janet. Looking forward to both of your work too.

For those who don’t have Chinese supplies, you could always simulate the paintings with other medium. I did a few these two weeks.

Oil pastel

Graphite shavings smudged all over

Vine charcoal

The colors here are with Bombay India Ink.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
October 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm #1125745
azulparsnip
wow!!!!!!! Sandra – your really accomplished

I’d love to own the mustard seed garden instructionals but I already have 3 books on chinese painting and I have only used one once…:eek: But I didn’t know such a instructional existed.
Really though I just need to start working with it all and practice….like everything else.

Thanks for posting all this. I’m hope to get something done.

Robin
The mediator between head and hands must
be the heart. Harbou - Metropolis
http://virtualparsnip.blogspot.com/
October 23, 2009 at 3:17 pm #1125690
LGHumphrey
Default
Love those horses.

Lawrence Humphrey
Torrelles, Spain
October 23, 2009 at 8:50 pm #1125705
gakinme
Default
Thank you, Robin, Lawrence, for your comments.

That instructional guide is not essential if you have a few others already. The key is to look through the 3000 years of art of China and learn from the masters.

In the past, Chinese students were not allowed to do their own creative art but has to spend a long time copying masters’ work to hone their skills.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
October 25, 2009 at 5:32 pm #1125691
LGHumphrey
Default
Dunno if the horse looks Japanese but those pictograms–the yellow ones–say “Black Horse”………(I think )

Lawrence Humphrey
Torrelles, Spain
October 25, 2009 at 7:24 pm #1125706
gakinme
Default
Lawrence, the characters at the bottom are Chinese and on the left says long life and on the right says blessings. The black horse character is Japanese. The Chinese words are well done. During Chinese New Year Festival or when older people have birthdays, the family wish them “Dragon, Horse, healthy” meaning wishing them as healthy as a dragon or horse.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
October 26, 2009 at 5:09 pm #1125692
LGHumphrey
Default
Sandra, thanks so much for all that interesting info.

Don’t the Chinese and the Japanese use the same pictograms? Come to think of it, the Japanese have 3 types, don’t they?

Lawrence Humphrey
Torrelles, Spain
October 27, 2009 at 2:38 am #1125707
gakinme
Default
The Japanese has hirigana, katakana and kanji.

I learnt Japanese first with hirigana, which are the symbols for the sounds. Katakana is mostly reserved for writing Japanese pronunciations of foreign words. Then they also use kanji which are modified Chinese characters.

In a sentence, they would have all three forms in them. I could read kanji and hiragana and terrible at katakana and I could understand a bit of Japanese when I read them.

Chinese nouns and characters are very commonly adopted in many Asian countries. The Vietnamese, Koreans have a lot of words in Mandarin or Cantonese that I could understand too.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
October 30, 2009 at 12:27 am #1125746
azulparsnip
Sandra, If I may ask, what was your motivation for learning so much about these orientals????

Robin
The mediator between head and hands must
be the heart. Harbou - Metropolis
http://virtualparsnip.blogspot.com/
October 30, 2009 at 10:27 pm #1125708
gakinme
Default
Robin, I’m Chinese from Hong Kong and lived there for the first half of my life. And I worked among different Asian nationalities so naturally, I’m into their culture and languages too.

Today, I was trying to simulate African sculptures with playdough. LOL.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
October 31, 2009 at 2:41 am #1125709
gakinme
Default
[FONT=Verdana]I drew the sculptures instead. It’s easier. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]

Prismacolor pencil and Prisma Verithin[/FONT]

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
October 31, 2009 at 5:47 am #1125681
trafford
Default
LG, love the simplicity of the horse and that fabulous color.

Hey, Sandra…I like your sculpture. I’ll have to see if I have any clay around here. I want to try one.

http://trafford.etsy.com
http://janetmiriamsart.blogspot.com
http://acartoonistsdaughter.blogspot.com
November 2, 2009 at 8:08 pm #1125710
gakinme
Default
Thank you, Janet, for your comment.

This is sort of following an African mask but I did a 3/4 profile on it myself and introduced more dreadnoughts and different markings.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
November 4, 2009 at 12:38 pm #1125747
azulparsnip
These are great…..I’m a big texture fan and these got that going on. I like the sculpture alot. Especially the tooth.

Robin
The mediator between head and hands must
be the heart. Harbou - Metropolis
http://virtualparsnip.blogspot.com/
November 5, 2009 at 11:12 pm #1125711
gakinme
Default
Robin, looking forward to see your piece.

I’m now onto Indian art.

Here is Sultan Muhammad Adil Shan from India based on a painting in 1653.

Kimberley General’s Color pencils
50 lbs Aquabee sketchbook 8.5 x 11 inch

These are not based on old paintings but photos of old India’s mosques. I’m sure the Sultan lives in something elaborate as these.

Sandra
All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 13 at WC!Gallery
[FONT="Georgia"]Bless the Lord
Author

Posts