Orange Orient

Orange Orient – My Orange entry for my Rainbow badge challenge. A royal Chinese woman with a Chinese Lion.

Happy Chinese new year everyone! I know it’s late now, but it’s still the 28th here (Just about…) so it still counts, haha.

I’m going to be quick because I haven’t got much time yet to write this before this submission is late. Since I did a tribal man and tiger yesterday, I decided to mirror that today with a royal Chinese queen character alongside a Chinese Lion. It is Chinese new year after all, so it made sense to do something relevant that linked in with both subjects.

As per my consistency ‘pact’, this was completed in line and wash style. Anyway, enough of me badgering on, I do hope you all aprove. See you next time.

The next entry colour is “Yellow”. Stay tuned and stay inspired with me everyone!

Wondering what this #rainbowbadgechallenge is? Click on this link to see the rules (in English) : https://plus.google.com/114481352387700669506/posts/X3VAb8ZTzWo

🇩🇪 German translation is also available here: https://plus.google.com/108793821513864658309/posts/L3ExuwZ7Vxh 🇩🇪

Please note, I forgot to sign my work, but it is mine. Cheers! See you next time!

Beginning to get better!

Hello all. I’m still a bit ill, but I’m finally beginning to get better! I still havent been able to do much at all as I have been resting and taking strong medication, so I am now starting to run out of anything new to upload. But I came up with a small solution to this problem…

Please see the bamboo sketch below. Another sketch inspired by the oriental theme.

Quick sketch done in chinese sumi ink on budget printer paper. It’s as simple as that.

But how long exactly did this take me to draw I hear you cry? Just look below.

That’s right. A little over 3 mins and 29 seconds. I timed myself on my mobile phone. This is the perfect excercise to do when you’re in a rush to rest.

Enjoy. See you next time.

Ever so sorry…

So sorry people, but I’ve come down with a nasty ear infection all this week and am still suffering with it. Haven’t been able to complete my dragon or do much else at all.

Above is a 5 min line and wash sketch of a heron in a pond inspired by Chinese brush painting. Poster paint on watercolour paper, I did this a few weeks ago.

Autumn always makes me ill, I don’t know why…

Bye for now best wishes.

More Chinese Doodling Fun

Hello once again, I did the painting of two tigers above in Chinese ink and watercolours. It took me approximately 15 – 20mins to complete in a spontaneous style. The title of this piece is “Two Tigers”, but it has an added message I did in Simplified Chinese…

” Two Tigers sit by my bedside. Their presence is as strong as steel”.

I wrote that because this is literally by my bed. Tigers are strong in addition…as strong as steel perhaps. So this message is to give me strength. It’s also a tradition to put a message like this in a Chinese painting, so I have done so, but in my way, and from left to right and not the normal way of writing right to left.

I also put “2015 year of the goat”, as this is the year of the goat in the Chinese zodiac. Fun fact: I was born in 1991, which is again a year of the goat.

This drawing of a Chinese dragon I did on olive coloured sugar paper is unfinished, but I want to take my time with this one. I want it to be one of my more detailed good pieces. I drew this in pencil first and went over it in pen. Stay tuned to see it finished.

Thats all for now, and as usual, have a relaxing weekend!