How many kinds of thangka pigments are there?

Thangka pigments traditionally use precious mineral gems such as gold, silver, pearl, agate, coral, turquoise, malachite and cinnabar, and plants such as saffron, rhubarb and indigo as pigments to show sacredness. These natural materials ensure that the painted Thangka is bright and dazzling, and it is still bright and bright after hundreds of years.

Thangka's creative process is very particular and complicated. Before the meeting, please ask a servant from the living Buddha, choose an auspicious day, bathe yourself, burn incense and pray, and prepare materials while chanting. Then through the process of preparing canvas, positioning the draft, coloring, marking, gold painting, opening and blessing. It takes ten days to dozens of days to draw a simple Thangka, and months to years to draw a complex Thangka.

Thangka is a Tibetan group, with Tibet-related content as its theme. Including their historical geography, myths and legends, Tibetan medicine, astronomical calendar, etc. It also includes maps of four continents, wind and fire, water and soil, Mount Sumi, the origin map of Tibetans, and the map of Princess Jincheng's visit to Tibet. Auspicious Siruitu is also the favorite theme of Tangka among Tibetan monks and customs. Some Thangkas that reflect Tibet and its history often take the form of scattered perspective or serial maps, and each page is marked with a small amount of words.

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Thangka stain

Halo dyeing is a color rendering method to make up for the lack of stereoscopic effect in plane painting. Through blooming, the transition between the two colors can be natural and smooth, giving things in Thangka paintings a real texture and three-dimensional sense.

Tangkagou line

Sketching is the most important process in Thangka production, which is to describe the muscles, clothes, rocks, trees and clouds of characters with sharp pens. Thangka's gold thread is made by grinding pure gold into fine powder, adding water and glue, mixing evenly, painting and sketching on canvas, and then polishing it with the hardness of a gem pen to make it shine. The whole Thangka will become resplendent and dazzling.