This months elective being offered by the school is Chinese Painting. Nadia was sleeping and Mike was working, so I headed over to the school on Tuesday afternoon. The teacher is an art student at the local university and she was shy, but very good at the style of Chinese painting that she taught today. It’s the traditional black watercolor and I got to do mine like a tracing. She taught me how to hold the brush – this went against how I usually hold a pen, but I could see that over time it would become comfortable. You have to hold the brush straight up and be very, very precise. She told me that I moved too fast and it’s best to do this type of painting when your heart is still and you are very relaxed. I was laughing because I do everything fast and it was hard to force myself to slow down. Next week she is going to teach a different style of painting and how to do flowers. So far it seems pretty cool.
Both of my “paintings” were replicas from a famous painter during the Ming Dynasty.
And last a little Nadia cuteness for your day!
