Chinese Painting- Trunk

The first Chinese painting that I am going to learn is trunk. In Chinese painting the most important part is the use of the vital energy, it control the strength of the painting present and it also a feature of the Chinese painting. Because that I already learned calligraphy for a while so Chinese painting isn’t that difficult for me, they have the same skill which is the use of the vital energy the main four types (steps) are opening, continue, turning and ending, these four steps need to be conclude in all the Chinese painting such as flowers, trunks, bamboos and calligraphy. For trunks, the opening stroke is the most important part that connects the painting will be success or fail. The mother stroke needs to be strong, firm and crude, the daughter strokes need to be thinker, softer and smoother, we also can use water to create different range of black. We use rice paper for Chinese painting and calligraphy and that create a beautiful and nature range of color when we mix the different ratio of ink and water.  My first stroke isn’t very work very well cause I didn’t know the rice paper well so I stop on the paper too long and make the turning point very obvious and the ink halo open too much.