Tree Painting Techniques

Chinese painting techniques

Painting trees should first observe the overall characteristics of the tree, and then observe the branches. Below I have compiled a Chinese painting techniques for you, I hope it can help you!

Tree painting method Tree in landscape painting is also known as the forest, in traditional landscape painting occupies a very important position, even if you only paint the tree, it can be a complete work. When painting a tree, it is better to observe the overall characteristics of the tree first, and then observe the branches, because the ecology of the branches of the trees is different in many kinds of trees. The first thing you should do is to start with a dead tree or a deciduous tree in the winter. A tree without leaves has a clear structure and a distinctive posture, which makes it easy to understand the growth pattern and basic structure of various trees.

(a) branches The structure of the branches can be roughly divided into three main categories, one is the type of upward growth, the traditional painting theory is called the antler branch, this type of the most common, such as willows, acacia, camphor, etc. The second is the type of downward bending, the traditional painting theory is called the antler branch, this type of the most common, such as willow, acacia, camphor. The second is the downward bending type, called crab claw branches, such as dragon claw. Third, the type of horizontal life, can be called long-armed branches, such as pine, cedar, cottonwood and so on. There are also forms between the two or the three mentioned above. Before sketching tree branches around the tree on all sides, carefully observe and choose the most beautiful trunk and the most appropriate angle. The trunk of the thick branches hook good, and then add thin branches, painting the first to pay attention to the principle of the tree divided into four divisions, that is, the trunk of the front and back of the left and right branches in all directions of the situation, do not be like a fishbone, two and two, lack of staggered style. Secondly, pay attention to the sparseness and the arrangement of the atmosphere, can be slightly give and take, in fact, twigs and tree tops can be boldly discarded, should be selected from the artistic point of view of the beauty of the `principle of the principle of sketching. In addition, we must pay attention to the pen, to be upright, each branch should be connected with the trunk or thick branches, not to grow in the air, and the branches of the tree the more the longer the more thin, can not write the end of the thick or thick branches and thin, contrary to the ecology of the plant.

( two) bark, roots The appearance of trees, personality and characteristics can sometimes be distinguished from the bark texture, each type of bark has a different texture organization, such as the pine bark is scaly, willow bark into the diagonal cleft herringbone pattern, the cherry apricot bark into the horizontal pattern, the bark of the bo bark is twisted texture, there are still many difficult to describe the texture of the words, need to be carefully observed before the sketching. Before sketching, it is necessary to observe carefully. Painting the trunk, in addition to paying attention to the texture of the bark, but also need to draw a three-dimensional feeling, chapped bark near the sides of the texture to be dense and narrow, (or ink thicker), near the center of the tree texture can be sparse and broad (or ink lighter), so as to conform to the principle of perspective. After drawing the branches and trunks, you can draw the roots, and whether to draw the roots or not can depend on the amount of soil and rocks or the type of tree, usually when there are more rocks and less soil, most of the roots are exposed; when there are more soil and less rocks, most of the roots are hidden, such as the banyan tree, which mostly exposes its roots. However, when painting, you can also disregard the distinction between soil and stone, and decide to hide or expose the roots according to the needs of the picture, but you need to paint a picture of the rise from the soil, the characteristics of the toughness and stability, and not to paint a picture like sticking in the soil, a feeling of push will fall.

(3) Leaves The arrangement and structure of leaves varies from species to species, so no matter what kind of tree you are painting, you need to understand the shape and arrangement of the leaves from close up, and then look at the overall gesture and feeling from afar. The twelve types of leaves pictured below are common in Taiwan. Nature's number of trees is the best spectrum of paintings, varied, so that we can draw endless, usually should do more observation, diligent sketching. In ancient times, the first widely used method of painting trees was the leaf clip (leaf outline method), in which each leaf was outlined with more than two lines and then filled in with color. After the rise of ink and wash, the number of leaf clips gradually decreased and the number of single leaves (leaf-dotting method) gradually increased, simplifying the use of one brush stroke to symbolize a leaf or a group of leaves, and depending on their shapes, there were many different symbols such as pepper dots, Chinese character dots, Chinese character dots, plum blossom dots, mouse-footed dots, hanging vine dots, pine-leaf dots, bamboo-leaf dots, etc. However, there were many different symbols for each leaf, and they were not used in the ancient times. And so many different symbols, but these symbols are the former from the observation of nature refined, both generalized and realistic, not made up out of thin air. In addition to pine, bamboo, willow, wu, and other leaves with distinctive image characteristics, other features are not very obvious, commonly known as miscellaneous trees. When pointing out the leaves, you need to pay attention to the top of the tree by the sun leaves more, by the trunk of the leaves are usually more sparse.

( 4 ) Pine tree painting Pine tree symbolizes the gentleman of mankind and longevity. Ancient people loved to paint pines, showing the uprightness and strength of the pine, and the spirit of the sky and the earth. Pine skin is scaly, painting pine skin to be strong, hair but not light, avoid too regular arrangement. Pine leaves such as needle-like, semi-circular, circular, horsetail-shaped, serrated and many other different ways of painting, the pine trunk is straight, born in the rocky cliffs is curved.

( five) willow painting Ancient people often say: it is difficult to paint people painting hand, painting trees is difficult to paint willow, a painting will be ugly. Willow tree body charming, have to the water's edge tilt features, willow trunk old and willow tender. Painting willow should be slightly thick and thin, without showing the sharpness, the pen slow potential even, soft with hard, such as pointing willow leaves, to be fluffy and full of changes.

(6) bamboo painting Landscape bamboo, mostly in the form of bamboo forests (jungles), the leaves can be divided into two major forms of drooping bamboo leaves and upturned bamboo leaves (clear forests and new Huang Huang). When painting the bamboo stem, the branches are slightly curved, pay attention to the sparse and dense interspersed, the arrangement of bamboo leaves should not be state neat, must consider the overall interest, the relationship between reality and distance.

( seven) tree painting tree in landscape painting often appear, more difficult to deal with, the Song and Yuan painters describe tree, from the sketch, more realistic, such as the spring rain of Ma Lin's Fang map, its branches and trunks of the staggered, light and dark, the guests and masters, near and far, the atmosphere is very successfully dealt with. Wang Qiulin figure is a clump of forests dominated by foliage trees, the relationship between trees and branches and leaves is a little messy. Painting clumps of trees avoid monotonous and dull side by side, trees have guests and masters, painting from the main tree to start, reflecting each other, the leaves are divided into thick and thin. Rows of trees should be staggered up and down, high and low differences.