Do you need glue to paint with silk? Is it necessary to use Marley brand glue for Chinese painting raw materials?

Rubber powder special for heavy color rock paintings is used to increase color, and rubber can also be added when Chinese painting pigments draw heavy colors. Put the rubber powder into a small dish, add warm water to melt it, then add the pigment and stir.

Generally, all the paintings bought by painting shops are made by themselves, so you can draw them directly without gluing them yourself. If you feel that it is not enough, you can process it yourself. Touch the silk material and you can feel the weight of the glue. Or you can directly add alum water twice without gluing. If cooked rice paper is made, it is also direct alum, not glue.

When painting with silk, you can usually make the bottom layer yourself to prevent ink from infiltrating. In the past, you used granular bone glue to make yourself suffer, and brushed alum water several times. If you can't buy bone glue now, you can use wood glue (white glue) or transparent glue instead, which needs to be diluted with warm water and then alum water.

Whether the weight is suitable or not depends on the details and degree of your painting. Extreme works can be heavier, such as freehand brushwork can be lighter.

Smooth the silk on the drawing board, and apply glue in sequence with a shading pen (exhaust the air between the silk to make it completely calm on the board, first brush it radially around the middle, and then brush it vertically from the middle to both sides for several times) to avoid missing the painting. Brush the glue again after it dries. After the glue dries twice, you can dip your fingers in water or lick the silk with your tongue to make it moist. Check the thickness of the glue and brush it repeatedly. Until you are satisfied.

The ratio of glue to water, such as the ratio of salt water in soup, is unfamiliar at first. Glue can be thinner and applied several times at most, with the same effect.