The main materials used in oil paintings can be roughly divided into several categories?

The main materials used in oil painting can be roughly divided into five categories.

(A) binder

This is the main ingredient of the paint coating dry and harden, forming a tough film. Qing Dynasty government-run projects, tung oil is the most commonly used binder, it can be mixed in the putty inside, can also cover.

(2) drying agent

Covering raw tung oil has the disadvantage of sunlight and change shape so use cooked tung oil. Boiled oil process to add drying agent, can increase the drying properties of oil and brightness. General boiling oil drying agent is the earth, mithrax.

(C) pigment.

Mainly coloring pigments, such as silver vermilion, Zhangdan, red earth, smoke, and a variety of green and green.

(D) gold leaf

Gold is a precious metal, the ruling class of the Ming and Qing dynasties also use this material in buildings, in addition to the top of the tile gilded gold has been as mentioned, Liang Fang color painting is the use of gold leaf. According to the "heavenly work" recorded, each gold foil one inch square weight seven centimeters.

(E) water glue

Color painting in a variety of pigments to be used with a certain proportion of water glue with the adhesive in order to adhere firmly. The bottom surface of the color painting should also be brushed with glue and alum water.