Wednesday, April 11, 2012

chinese ink art

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We recently had our Chinese day at the school I am prac-teaching at. I decided to contribute to the Chinese decor by making some super simple and quick Cherry blossom trees. I snapped a couple of pics while I was making them, with my iphone because i was too lazy to fetch my SLR i wanted the hipster effect.

All you need is
  • drawing ink and paintbrush (or drinking straw)
  • glue
  • pink tissue paper
  • white paper
  • black card

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Draw a super basic tree outline with the drawing ink and a paintbrush. For a really cool effect and if you'd like to do it on a smaller scale (like A4) - you could put a tiny blob of ink on the paper and then use a straw to blow out the ink into an interesting tree shape.

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Once you have your tree outline, tear up tiny pieces of pink tissue paper and roll them into little balls. Once you have enough balls you can start sticking them onto the end of the tree branches with a spot of glue.

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Add a bit of Chinese writing at the bottom with the ink (ahem google translate) and mount them onto black card with a nice thick frame and voila!
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We used these and the kids art to help decorate the school hall. I was really impressed with the lanterns and Chinese characters that the kids created.
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7 comments :

Cathy Farley said...

We stop being such amazing artists when we start caring what other people think of the art we make and stop just having fun with it.  Great job Che.

Emily said...

Brilliant, Che - I'm storing this in a computer folder labelled "Chinese New Year 2013" :)

Weezafish said...

Great project, isn't this just the perfect job for you?

A Daft Scots Lass said...

You're so arty crafty farty

Che Strawberries said...

true true true :(

Che Strawberries said...

hope you make good use of it! :)

Che Strawberries said...

it would be way more lovely if i was actually being paid... haha :)