Rethinking Bamboo

[liralen]

I haven't like the last couple of bamboo paintings I've done... so I tried a few different things last night.



I started with the assumption that few leaves are better. So this is what I did when I went happily crazy and did lots and lots of leaves. I munged one of the stalks, ah well, but I was using the already liquid Yi-de ink, which I'm not that used to, yet. As you can tell by some of the darker, fuzzier leaves, I am saturating it a bit too much. Still... I like the layout of this better than the ones I have been doing...



There's a painting by Yuming Zhu of a couple of bamboo from the ground up that made me rethink my scale of my bamboo. I don't think this is... uhm... botanically correct, as the windward side is a bit... sparse, but I liked the concept very much and may do more research to make this better. It does seem more interesting to me, though.

Comments

[7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com]

Oh, gorgeous! The over-saturated effect is surprisingly effective. I actually like the looseness of it, how the accidental element adds to the picture. It keeps the image from getting too tight and controlled, and lends you experience.

I have no idea if this is true, but the second image is so powerful that it feels like it is 7-feet high.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Neat! I'm glad you liked those affects... and why. Thank you, so much.

Heh. The second and the first are actually on the same size paper. It's just a matter of scale... which is why I had to rethink the scale to see what I really wanted to do.