Mountains, Water, and Lotus

The Chinese call the genre of paintings that depict nature as "mountain and water" painting. So it's natural that such paintings feature majestic mountains, torrential waterdfalls, and placid lakes. And this is what I worked on for this week's Arts class, which was moved to yesterday from its usual slot on Friday.

Then today I spent some time drawing the lotus flower, which is cherished in Buddhism. Here are the results of my efforts.

Black and white lotus on rice paper.

Well, the water here appears transparent, its existence surmised from the sailing boats amidst the blank space. This is drawn on a lighter rice paper and the few shades of light blue highlighting the lake did not survive the scanning.

This has appeared previously here, but without water color, which was done here at the behest of my Arts teacher.

The head of the "Y" denotes two cascading waterfalls that spill on to the river carrying two boats.


The colored lotus on rice paper.

And one more to complete the trio of Lotus.