Step by step drawing of stone in Chinese painting

Stone is an important subject matter in flower and bird painting, wherever written flower and bird painting can be accompanied by stone. There is a difference between stones in flower and bird paintings and those in landscape paintings. In traditional art, the aesthetic appreciation of stones has the criteria of thinness, leakage, emptiness, transparency, oddity and strangeness, and its force and potential are vital and alive, which can increase the mood and interest of the picture.

The stone has a yin and yang back and forth, in order to seek a sense of form, can be divided into three sides, two sides, one side, on the white under the black, on the sparse under the dense, sparse white for the yang, black and dense for the yin. According to the needs of the picture can be large or small, high or low, vertical or horizontal, straight or oblique, square or round, complex or simple. The pen should be free, flexible and changeable, in the side of the front mutual use, heavy brushwork, thick and thin wet and dry, chapped point rubbing, splash broken, false and loose, a breath of fresh air, all in one.

Chafing method of painting stone: a more generalized, bright method, play the tension of the line and aesthetic interest, virtual and real, staccato twists and turns, in the side of the gathering and dispersal, drag and drop, with the shape of the situation. Chapped for the texture of the stone, enhance the three-dimensionality of the stone, the side of the hook side chapped, the shape of the line is solid, chapped line virtual, chi Yun through, vivid activation.

Hook and fill method of painting stone: hook a good stone filled with color and ink, in order to enrich the expression of the stone form. Fill color ink should pay attention to the brush to see the brush strokes, not randomly painted, messy.

Splash ink method of painting stone: use color ink to splash out the stone shape, ink muddy and vivid, but pay attention to the pen, the pen is the sinews and bones, the ink is the skin, the pen is similar to the ink to the charisma. Skillful use of water, so that it is drenched in pallor, appropriate thickness, wet and dry, thick, not stagnant, light, not flimsy. In the splash in the see pale moist gas, although dry still wet, wonderful leave a gap.

Breaking ink method of painting stone: color ink splash, while wet with dry heavy ink broken. Can hook, can be chapped, can wipe, can point, pen and ink change unpredictable, interesting. Can be broken once, can also be broken many times, must control the effect of the picture.

Dotting moss: in nature, there are many moss spots on the stones, which are rich in variations. When pointing moss in Chinese paintings, we can use a variety of strokes to point, different forms, save three gather five, if the separation, subtle and vivid. Dot moss to have the magic of the eye, can point in the place of the defeat to cover the ugly defeat, the pen is weak and weak at the place of the strong pen to help the momentum, to break the feeling of stagnation in order to increase the vitality.