Stone painting in Chinese painting is divided into five parts.

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The ancients said that the stone has three sides, so it is enough to draw three sides of the stone. As long as you draw three faces, you can show the structure and three-dimensional sense of the stone. When painting, we must use the relationship between black and white, that is, deal with yin and yang well. Generally, it is hundreds of times black, white on the side, black on the right, white on the right and black on the left. Of course, there are also white in the middle and black on both sides.

Size arrangement

If the picture needs a lot of stones, they can't be the same size or scattered. There should be size, gathering and scattering, and alternating size. The experience of the ancients is: near the mountain, there are small stones between big stones, near the water, there are big stones between small stones.

technique of expression

Hooking, scraping, rubbing, dyeing and spotting are the ways to express stones, the experience summarized by painters of past dynasties and the essence of traditional techniques. It has played a very important role in the development of China Mountain Flower Painting. We must study hard and sum up our innovations.

The main method of stone painting is cutting. There are many cutting methods, such as horse cutting, axe cutting, Jie Suocun cutting, folding, lotus leaf cutting, rice cutting, firewood cutting and so on. Among them, the most important ones are axe chopping and horse chopping. We don't want to learn every method, learn the most important and basic ones well, and others will follow, but we must not be bound by traditional techniques and have a unique personality.

In short, if you want to draw a good stone, you must pay attention to observation, sketch more, find out the rules from life, creatively embody your own style, and develop innovative landscape painting techniques.