Service Description

Paint a snowy wintry tree with white blossoms as well as a very special Chinese tradition, a tree that is also a calendar! This is a lesser known tradition in the deep midwinter, starting in December, where you paint one petal of a plum blossom per day for 81 days, by which point it will be spring. It's called the festival of nine nines (9 x 9 = 81) and called the Dongzhi festival. We'll discuss more about this ancient calendrical tradition in class. We focus on a series of trees designed to explore the breadth and depth of trees in Indo-Persian and manuscript painting. From the jungles and forests to bushes and shrubbery later on, we look at all types of greenery and foliage in these sessions which build on each other. We must cultivate our garden…