Roses and Bees

Learn to paint step-by-step beautiful roses and bees in ink and colour. In this lesson you will learn to paint roses and bees. We will begin this tutorial practicing a variety of brush strokes, which you will use to paint a single rose flower in ink - your first composition. You will then learn how to paint bees in various positions and add them to a more complex ink roses painting - your second composition. And in the third part of the lesson, you will be able to create your own colour composition of roses and bees. You will also learn about the art of master lacquer artist - Shibata Zeshin, and one of his wild rose and butterfly painting. And enjoy deepening into the healing meditative nature of roses.