A New Way to Interact with Reality

The art of calligraphy in Japan is called “Sodo,” which translates as “The Path of the Letter.” For me Wŭ Xíng painting is the “path of the brush and paint,” “the path of the painting;” “the path of drawing.”
It wasn’t that long ago that I received the gift of Wŭ Xíng from my teacher, but even over the last five years painting has changed me dramatically. I understood from the start that Wŭ Xíng was more than just painting, and couldn’t even imagine how deep and rich of a practice it was. I’m not afraid to call Wŭ Xíng a unique method of spiritual and psychophysical development.

Poppys

Works of students who visited the workshop about poppys, carried our by Nataly Kotova in Wu Xing School of Painting (Moscow).
This technique is a bit unusual. It is done over a thick layer of gouache painting and water. The word "gouache" translates from Italian as a "wet moor", so they used the opportunity to make thick untransparent layers of this paint. 

Mountaints, pinetrees, waterfall and clounds

Works of Elena Kasiyanenko



   
  

Wu Xing painting: How to draw a lion? By Nataly Kotova

Let's start!

Short workshop from Katrin Chernaya: fishes

Wu Xing painting: trees

 Works of Andrey Scherbakov

Wu Xing painting: Sceneries

Works of Andrey Scherbakov

Works of Elena Kasiyanenko

Works of Katrin Chernaya

Wu Xing painting: birds

Works of Elena Kasiyanenko

 Work of Nataly Kotova

 Work of Margarita Volkova















Works of Yuliya Zima

 Work of Ruslan Omeliyanenko

Wu Xing painting: fruits

I didn't cover this "tasty" theme which is widely used in Chinese painting. Here it is!
Works of teachers, School of Wu Xing painting, Moscow, Russia

Wu Xing painting: video workshop, fishes

Author: Katrin Chernaya

Eagles

 
Students' pictures from Elena Kasiyanenko's lesson about eagles in Wu Xing style: 




Works by Elena Kasiyanenko:

Four gentlemen in Chinese painting

4 gentlemen or noble plants: orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and cherry plum in Chinese painting are the most common themes for pictures as each of them has its own symbol and sense.  

Let's see how they look like in real nature: 

Orchid is gentle and sophisticated, it represents early spring, the idea of purity, simplicity and nobility. 
The leaves are painted with metal brushstroke and the flowers with fire brushstroke. 


Pictures of Katerina Chernaya (don't forget to click on the pictures to see the larger image)

Picture of Ruslan Omeliyanenko

Bamboo is a symbol of strong character, real man with high moral values. I've written about bamboo in this blog earlier http://wuxingpainting.blogspot.com/2012/02/main-themes-of-chinese-and-wu-xing.html

Among 4 gentlemen bamboo is associated with summer. For its painting movements of Wood and Fire are used.

Picture of Katerina Chernaya

Chrysanthemum is beautiful, virgin and shy, it symbolises autumn. This flower is a symbol of high-minded solitude and calmness. In Wu Xing painting there are many ways to draw this flower. 

Pictures of Elena Kasiyanenko

Wild cherry plum is associated with purity of thoughts and life troubles resilience. As this plant can preserve its juice even in severe frosts real gentleman should be able to preserve calmness and harmony inside even when life is tough.  On the North of China wild cherry plum is often blossoming under the snow. It is often associated with winter time. 


Picture of Ruslan Omeliyanenko                                                            Picture of Diana Medvedeva