Plum blossom is also known as spring plum and red plum. Prunus of Rosaceae, up to 5-6 meters high. The crown is spreading and the bark is light gray or light green. Branchlets slender, pointed, green, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate or ovate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate or caudal apex, base broadly cuneate, pubescent when young or along veins, petiole short, glandular. Pedicel short, 1-2, right on 1-2-year-old branches, calyx tube bell shaped, red, dark red and green, etc. Flowers have single or double petals, white, red or light red, fragrant, mostly in early spring in January and February, flowering first, then leaves. Drupe subglobose, yellow or greenish, mature from May to June. Plum blossom, also known as "five blessing flowers", symbolizes happiness, happiness, longevity, smoothness and peace. It is a common phenomenon among civilized nations that a kind of flower is used to express some feelings. But it is unique in the world that plum blossom is used to express various feelings. Tool materials and characteristics of traditional Chinese painting: Brush can be divided into long front, center front and short front pen according to the length of the brush. The long front is easy to draw graceful lines, the short front is easy to be dignified and thick, the center and the short front are both. The new pen is sharp, which is only suitable for drawing thin lines. The effect of using the old pen is better. Some painters like to paint with a bald pen. The dots and lines they draw have the beauty of vigor and simplicity. Ink commonly used ink raw materials are lampblack, pine smoke two, made of ink called lampblack ink and pine smoke ink. The oil smoke ink is made of tung oil smoke. The ink is black and glossy, which can show the subtle changes of ink color. It is suitable for landscape painting; pine smoke is black and dull, which is mostly used for feathers and human hair, but it is not suitable for landscape painting. Xuan paper is divided into raw Xuan paper, cooked Xuan paper and semi cooked Xuan paper. It's easy to master the familiar Xuan painting, but it's also easy to produce the problem of smoothness and inflexibility. The steps of drawing plum blossom Before you start writing, you'd better think about the layout, and then write. 1. Painting stem: draw the edge line of the dark part of the old stem with thick ink, pay attention to the turning point of the branches, and draw the edge line of the bright part of the branches with dry ink on the pen, so as to make the ink on the pen as light as possible. When painting bark, you should absorb the extra water on the pen, and then use thick ink to wipe it from dark to bright. 2. Point flower: point deep flower and point shallow flower, point deep flower ink should be thick, point shallow flower should use light ink. 3. Draw stamens and small branches. 4. Light color outlines the stamens, and finally completes the whole picture.