Wine Paintings - Wine + Chinese Color Ink - Simple 3 steps

 

Step - 1

Applying wire to draw out lines of objects. I use wooden coffee stir sticks, usually more than two to hold more wine. To make a fine line only one stick can be used but wine content is very limited and the line become very short. By using two or more sticks you can hold more ink, similar phenomenon to a brush which contain a fairy amount of ink, but much less amount.  You can use a brush but I like wooden coffee stir sticks as they create unexpected lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step - 2   Drying in about one hour depending on the wire quantity, paper, humidity, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step -3 Applying color ink. I use Chinese ink with several different size Chinese brushes.

 

 

 

AAG

Wine Paintings Mystery - 3

The colors after dried depends on 

1) the wine you use (and drink afterwards) very much.

I like Carbernet Sauvignon in both after-dried colors (not wine red but gray, often blueish dark gray which I like) and the taste with scent. 

2) somehow degree of oxidation (I think) and 

3) how much wine you apply on paper. Thin wine layer drys relatively fast and the color changes in most cases while with thick layer the color becomes dark (which is not necessarily good) or deep in a good way and taking more time.

Besides these (mentioned in  Wine Paintings Mystery - 2)

4) Paper quality 

and 

5) Combinations of all the above factors plus some other mysterious unknown factors.

 

 

 

 

 

Small amount of wine on tissue paper. Even one month later it still keeps the original wine red. Remarkable in a way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A large  amount of wine on common sketchbook paper.  Deep purple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quick sketch on the back side of breakfast tray paper, thin and shiny. Blueish light gray.

 

Different grape wines used on the same common sketch book paper -  See below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generally the outcome is unpredictable. This is fun.

 

Study continues.

 

Wine Paintings Mystery - 2

 

The remaining color after metamorphosis (in abut one hour) is seldom an original wine red. The outcome usually unpredictable. This is fun.

 

Just after applying wine

 

 

 In 30 minutes (still about half liquid)

In one hour

 

The above are rather silhouettes by only wine but if you make outlines of an object with wine and remain the inside blank (white)  and add color later. See below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wine outlines are bold (I used coffee stir sticks - 1 stick or 2-5 sticks together) but somehow  controllable. This is fun, too.

The colors after dried depends on 

1) the wine you use (and drink afterwards) very much and 

2) somehow degree of oxidation and 

3) how much you use. Thin wine layer keeps its wine red color while thick layer the color becomes dark (which is not necessarily good) or deep in a good way.

 

Study continues.

AGG

Owners' best ten Paintings in 2020

 The owner of Asnet Art Gallery again like before made a little improvement in his paintings in 2020 especially after summer. Total failures were few made among more than 300 sketches. The best ten were selected from several different categories of flowers + abstract.

                                                                                

This the best one in 2020. This blueish purple vise tree flower is called Tunbergia grandiflora. I happened to find this near but outside of HK Park in early autumn after making many sketches of common orange Campsis grandiflora in HK Botanical Garden. This is a truly unexpected happy encounter. I already introduced this on the top of the other Post titled " Campsis gradiflora " together with some others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the 2nd best. Ficus benjamina. I tried many different ficus trees. But this is the best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 3. Hibiscus but double flower Hisbiscus.

No. 4 Also Hibiscus. Hibiscus Mutabilis. As the name suggests the color of flower changed from white to pink and then to red and dark red and falls to the ground.

No. 5.  Chinese wisteria and Honeysuccle

No. 6. Unknown name plant but commonly seen. I used dry brush with Chinese ink.

 No. 7.  Water Hyacinth or Hotei Aaoi in Japanese.

No,8. Unknown name plant but commonly seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

The above eight are mostly made in Hong Kong Park and HK (Zoological and) Botanical Garden. I appreciate the staff there who take care of plants and flowers, rain or shine, through out the year.

 

No. 9. Like a press printing with a pencil.

No. 10 Abstract. I made few abstract in 2020.

AAG

Wine Paintings Mystery

 

Wine is a good material or media for painting and mysterious as well. Worth trying.

Wine with Chinese ink.

Wine without color ink. The wine I used for this was a bit special in that it brought an attractive blueish dark gray. See below

Just after putting wine on paper (common sketch book). Wine red color in liquid you can see.

 

 

 

After about one hour the color changed to a an attractive blueish dark gray. But I found that this is rather unusual after having tried some other wine. Usually wine red color remains. See bellow.

Just after applying wine on paper - Wine Red.

 

 

Even a long time has passes Wine red color remains after being dried.

Another sample - changed to gray but not an attractive blueish dark gray as above.

 

What is happening any way?  Mystery.

- Continued -

AAG

Beauty of math graphs - 3, Phase plane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Introduction to Computational Physics
http://astro.physics.ncsu.edu/urca/course_files/Lesson16/index.html  

Some Comments from artistic view points.

1. The first one is most beautiful to me.

Distinct lack and red contrast.
Good composition base on the triangular (just suggesting, not completed)
Mostly Curbs and a little bit straight lines with an arrow. Showing movement explicitly.
Ample space for movement feeling.
A calligraphic flow beauty.

2. The last one is the 2nd best.

Combination of several deformed symmetries - not monotonous symmetries while retain symmetrical beauty.
It shows many small seemingly circular movements as well as some mid size ones in the middle and outer large ones seemingly all connected and combined - showing continuation of flow.

3. The 2nd and 3rd - showing some sketch like incomplete beauty.

4. The beauty is highly likely due to chaos nature as the name of the titles of the two graphs (the1s and the last) - Chaotic Pendulum.

Introduction to Computational Physics says:

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If chaotic systems where entirely unpredictable, you probably wouldn't have heard so much about them. Their most intriguing features are related to the fact that there are things that can be predicted about these unpredictable systems.

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AGG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Campsis gradiflora and Thunbergia gradiflora

Wiki describes this plant as

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Campsis grandiflora, commonly known as the Chinese trumpet vine, is a fast-growing, deciduous creeper with large, orange, trumpet-shaped flowers in summer. It can grow to a height of 10 meters. A native of East Asia.

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I made many sketches of Campsis grandiflora this summer (July - Oct, Hong Kong has a much longer summer season) as I saw this follower first time in Hong Kong since 1995 when I moved to Hong Kong. Orange ones remind me of the time when I encountered this flower in Japan first time long time ago and Shanghai, also first time in China about 5 years ago. Both times the day was a very hot summer day and day time. Usually orange. But I happened to find bluish purple ones in September in Hong Kong. The best sketch is below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bluish purple ones

 

 

After checking I found (actually happened to find) this bluish purple Campsis gradiflora is not Campsis gradiflora but Thunbergia gradiflora and belongs to Acanthacea familiy not to Bigoniaceae family (to which Campsis gradiflora bekongs)

Orange ones (Campsis gradiflora)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAG