March13, at the Center for Health & Wellbeing, Joan Lok gave a demonstration on doing a Hydrangea using watercolors on rice paper. She used “ma” paper which is less than 70# compared to traditional 140# watercolor paper.

She passed around a sampling of different types of papers artists can choose from. The brushes used are hard hair, and soft hair.
Colors: Red = alizarin crimson Purple = Winsor violet
Blue = Cobalt blue. She also uses opaque white, Dr. Martian, (gouache) so it doesn’t disappear into the paper. 
She keeps her colors in little jars with tight lids. Chinese paint are either granulated, mineral based … or vegetable base. Granulated colors are ground from stone.
Hydrangea flowers are clusters of individual 4 petal flowers.
Color of blooms depend on the ph of the soil.

Looks like an umbrella. Leaves are painted in sap green with veins in ink.

If you have enough brushes you can separate the colorful flower brush vs. green leaf brushes.  Dot of light yellow in the middle of the flower. She will put the shadow around the dot with fine line brush. Add white to yellow to keep it on top. 3-D effect … capturing the spirit of the flower.

Soften the edge of the flowers for added dimension.
The finished artwork! Thank you Joan for volunteering to do this beautiful demonstration!

Youtube has some Joan Lok videos of equipment and tips of Chinese painting.

Cllick on this link for more information on Joan Lok’s online courses:

https://joanlokart.thinkific.com