Axe chopping and ink accumulation in pale crimson landscape paintings

Axe chopping is one of the main techniques to express rocks in traditional techniques. Traditionally, it is recognized as two categories of landscape painting, and the painting method of any rock is also evolved from these two techniques.

This method is divided into two types: big axe chopping and small axe chopping. This method can be evolved into scraping iron folding belt. Whether in ancient or modern times, the evolution from one method to another is due to the change of painter's concept, and the ideological angle of leading painters to observe rocks has also changed, leading to the emergence of new techniques.

Axe chopping is mainly used to represent some large rocks, such as the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Qinling Mountains, Taihang Mountains, Xing 'an Mountains and Changbai Mountains. It is appropriate to show its hardness and boldness. Under the wet rubbing of light ink and medium ink, rocks will appear smooth and cold. Using the method of accumulating ink around the main mountain, or expressing trees and stones, can make the picture feel thick and three-dimensional This is different from the simple use of axe chop in the past, and overcomes the inherent fine pen disease of axe chop.

Due to the accumulation of ink, many sick pens are covered, which makes the rock structure more accurate. At the same time, some small structures are also covered after using light ink to dry the rock, thus strengthening the overall effect of the rock.

The accumulation of ink around the main rocks will highlight the main body of the painting. To create artistic conception, we should pay attention to the internal and external echo of accumulated ink, "the external accumulation is heavy, the internal accumulation is less vivid", and making good use of accumulated ink can make the whole picture heavy.