chinese painting on rice paper

this is rice paper the teacher gave us. it is red, and those little speckles are gold leafing. we had to just do something chinesey and use the red colour however we wanted to

i decided that i wanted just the flowers to be the red rice paper showing through, so the red you see here is nothing but the rice paper, and the rest is painted in acrylic

closer photo, oh i did do some white specks in the middle of the flower but the rest is the paper

then we got a yellow antique looking rice paper - very fragile! so i painted a chinese man looking at the mountains - the chinese books come in very handy!

this is them, just showing the size of them. i will most likely mount them onto something and possibly frame then so they look nice. The end. bed time.