My Chinese Painting: Azure-winged Magpies 双鹊图

In Chinese flower-and-bird painting, I pretty like those birds which have a long tail, I think they are always beautiful regardless of background.Today the two azure-winged magpies I want to share with you have a grey long tail, black mouth, head and paws. It lives in mountains and plains and is a kind of common bird in northeast of China. Normally it looks smaller than magpie, as it has a fat body, it looks more lovely. Now let's start to paint it.

花鸟画里最喜欢长尾型的那种鸟了，觉得搭配什么背景都很漂亮。今天分享的这两只灰喜鹊就是长尾型的，两翅和尾部呈灰蓝色，头，嘴巴和脚呈黑色，平时生活栖息于山间，平原，在东北也是很常见的一种鸟了。灰喜鹊比喜鹊要小一些，有着胖嘟嘟的身子，但是比起喜鹊更加可爱呢。

Material 所用 工具：

Chinese brushes 毛笔4 只
Xuan Paper (raw rice paper) 生宣纸
Chinese painting color : 中国画颜料
Chinese ink 墨汁

The Process:

1、先画前面的这只灰喜鹊。
1）用浓墨画出眼睛和嘴巴，然后额头，颈部虚一点扫出。
2）再用另一只笔调三青和墨，调出灰色，画出背部的翅膀。
3）三级飞羽用勾，次级飞羽用中墨色排点。初级飞羽可用重一点墨色点出。
4）颈部和腹部用淡淡的赭石画出。
5）尾部用灰蓝色画出，要见笔有力。

2、同样的方法再画出另一只灰喜鹊。

3、用中等墨色画出树枝的大致走向。

4、画出小枝。

5、用藤黄和曙红调出橘红色，画出叶子。

6、用墨和胭脂勾画叶筋。

双鹊图就完成了。

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