Cherry blossoms have a lot of floral and colour information that is not very easy to draw. In addition, the information is not in a very accessible place and it takes time to get used to it. This how-to will guide you through using flowers on cherry blossoms as an exercise in learning how to use colour.
Within this how-to, I will be focusing on creating flowers on cherry blossoms, but the same general principles can be applied to other objects and real-life situations. If you want to learn more about the process of making these flowers, check out my blog post “How To Colour Flowers On Cherry Blossoms”
The methods can be used for any other tree and most other objects. Please let me know if you have any interesting results, especially with different kinds of trees. [email protected]
As you can see from the picture above, this technique creates flowers on the cherry blossom tree. ‘Cherry blossoms’ is written in hiragana on the left side of the image. The rest of the writing is in kanji (Chinese characters).
There are many ways to create flowers on trees. The various methods include painting directly onto the tree trunk, painting onto a transparent film that is applied to the tree trunk, using ink to paint directly on top of a photograph of the tree trunk, or using ink to paint on a drawing or photograph that has been cut out.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each method. Different methods work better for different shapes and sizes of trees and for different types of flowers. In some cases, it might be necessary to use more than one method. For example, I sometimes use both ink for drawing and transparent film applied to paint for painting cherry blossoms on a tree because I want to keep some of my original drawing visible beneath the painted flower petals as well as having some painted petals showing through in places where they overlap
The word “dot” in the name of the project refers to pointillism. The process involves using a single brush and mixing only two colours: a dark tone and a light tone that can be used on a white background.
The artist says that this technique has been used to colour cherry blossoms since the Heian period, so it is an ancient form of art. But her personal experience with it was limited because she did not know how to mix the colours properly during her childhood. She learned by watching videos of other artists on YouTube, then experimented until she mastered this traditional art form.*
The blog has many photographs of works in progress and finished works, along with detailed descriptions about how she created various pieces.*
The following pages will take you through the process of creating beautiful and unique cherry blossoms. The process is simple, but requires a great deal of patience and care.
After much trial and error, I have found that the best results are achieved using a combination of coloured pencils and watercolours. They can be used independently or in combination with each other to achieve different effects.
The colours I have used are as follows:
-Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils: Vibrant Green, Midnight Black, Kiwi Green, Violet Blue, Cobalt Blue and Yellow Ochre
-Derwent Watercolour pencils: Rose Pink, Pinky Red and Dark Blue
These are the colours I found worked best together. However, feel free to experiment with different combinations to see what works best for you.
I am a person who loves to colour with shades of colour. I really love it and I decided to create something that will help other people who love to colour as well. I wanted to share this process with all the people that want to do similar thing.
I have chosen the cherry blossom tree because it is very popular in Japan and I am Japanese. I like all kinds of flowers, but cherry blossoms are my favourite ones. I love how beautiful they look and how much it inspires me!
So, let’s get started!
The use of colour in paintings dates back to the earliest known cave paintings. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all used colour to enhance their art. They were particularly interested in the effects of mixing colours together. Rather than just using plain white pigment, they produced a range of colours by adding other substances, including various metals, plants and minerals.
Titian was one of the best known painters to use colour, his work is often referred to as ‘Titian red’.
Art is a very special thing in human society. It is one of the things that makes us different from other animals.
We have many ways of communicating information, but art is a way of communicating feelings and ideas. We often think of art as being only paintings, poetry and music, but there are many other forms, such as dance and sculpture. But all these forms are special in that they are things that can be created by a human being but not by any kind of machine.
While we can create machines that can paint or play chess or even write poetry, the machines themselves do not make choices based on their own feelings or ideas. They don’t decide what to paint or how to play chess or what words to use. Instead they are programmed by humans who make those choices for them.
Art is also special because it does not have any clear use. While we make machines to do work for us, we don’t make machines to tell us stories or give us pleasure or help us understand ourselves better. So art is not necessary for our survival. We only keep it around because it makes us feel good about ourselves and our place in the universe.