Assignments:

1)Assignment 1: Watch Prof Rao's Video demo carefully and take notes on the steps of painting the mogu flower and gongbi insect. Watch Henry's workshop video on gongbi insect and autumn leaves. compare your notes of part 1 with the process of henry's version if see if anything you can learn from both. Also, if you have any previous experience with Gongbi, please share with the class what's new you have learned in this particular lesson.   

Than, try to make a copy of the grasshopper with the new techniques you have learned in this lesson. For background you can choose the autumn leaves and the same flower that professor Rao did. 

(Let me explain why we are required to copy or trace the teacher's work to learn Chinese brush painting, especially Gongbi. I would suggest that you at least give "copying" practice a try in this lesson and through this process, you will realize that 1) it is impossible to reproduce the same quality of painting even though you use same "blueprint" from the master; 2) It is the most effective method to develop your own Gongbi skills. You will be amazed how everybody's interpretations of the same handout are different and reflect her/his own personalities. ) 

2) Watch Lesson 33 Part 2 and paint a boneless style insect and hibiscus flower on semi-sized or sized Xuan paper.