Traditional Ink Use in Chinese Painting

The traditional Chinese ink is solid ink.

Because of the different raw materials used, it is divided into oil smoke ink, lacquer smoke ink pine smoke ink three.

1, soot ink is made of tung oil and other oils burned into smoke. Its black warm, used for painting, and other transparent color harmony.

2, pine smoke ink made of pine branches burned smoke, its black color is cold, mostly used in calligraphy.

3. Lacquer ink is made of traditional lacquer, its black color is fine and glossy, and it is suitable for painting. In the selection of the texture is greasy, moist blue-violet color is good. To "top, top, tribute, selected" for the grade of ink.

Ink has a unique position in Chinese painting, ink has a solid and liquid ink.

Liquid ink maintains the characteristics of soot ink, and is now very popular because of its ease of use, but it is better used for freehand drawing. Among them, "tianjin book ink" and beijing "a get pavilion ink" is good.

Chinese paintings commonly used ink techniques:

Chinese paintings commonly used ink techniques a: thick ink method.

That is, the ink is mixed with less water and darker in color, and is used to express the dark and shadowy sides of objects, depressions, and close scenery. Thick ink should be thick and moist, lively, with a brush dipped in thick ink after rapid painting, not too much, too much easily stagnant, not vivid. Huang Binhong quoted Dong Po said "if the black and not light, so no spirit. To make its light clear and not floating, exquisite as a child's eyes."

Chinese painting commonly used ink technique two: light ink method.

The ink is mixed with more water and lighter in color, and it is used to express the light-facing side of the object, the protruding place and the distant view. There are two kinds of wet light, dry light, wet light is the pen first dipped in water, and then dipped in a small amount of thick ink, slightly blended after the speed of drawing. Light ink is prone to produce weak and godless drawbacks, so the use of light ink should be clean and free of dregs, to "light but not thin".

Chinese painting commonly used ink technique three: broken ink method.

That is to say, with different amounts of water, ink color, successive overlap and produce a new ink color effect of the expression. Usually, there are thick and thin broken each other, wither and wet broken each other, ink and water broken each other, ink color broken each other and so on. Ink color will be dry not yet dry, in order to take advantage of the natural seepage of water.