Pen and ink skills of Chinese painting

Chinese painting techniques include dipping ink, breaking ink and accumulating ink.

1, dip in ink

Dip in ink is to soak the brush hair with clear water before writing, carry some water back, then dip in a little thick ink to make light ink, then dip in a little thick ink with the pen tip, turn it slightly on the color swatch and immediately put pen to paper. If oblique front paving is adopted, the block surface will be thick first and then light. If you hook the line with the center, the line will be thick on both sides and thin in the middle.

Step 2 break the ink

"Break" means to add strength to the light, and to add strength to the light, thus breaking the simple ink color and effectively highlighting the characteristics of the object. Breaking ink is to apply light ink first, and when it is half dry, apply thick ink on the light ink to make it semi-permeable and semi-melted. Such as light ink exhibition leaves, thick ink sketch. Light ink is dry, while thick ink grows moss.

Step 3 accumulate ink

Ink accumulation is a method of accumulating light ink layer by layer to gradually deepen the ink color strength. Because ink painting has different requirements for the object of expression, some can be dyed at one time, and some need to accumulate ink many times to see the thickness. Some are added after drying, while others need to be added when wet or semi-dry. Such as lotus leaves, pine needles, stone patterns, grass and so on. This method of ink accumulation is often used.

Characteristics of Chinese painting pen and ink

China's traditional Chinese painting has a unique style. The characteristics of pen and ink in traditional Chinese painting are fluency and combination of pen and ink. The characteristic of traditional Chinese painting is to express the light and shade of various things with the depth of ink and wash. The use of ink and wash can be roughly divided into five ink degrees: focus, thick, heavy, light and clear, which is called ink color in ancient painting theory.

Chinese painting is to outline the image with lines. Once the image has a structure, it is like having a skeleton, so Chinese painting is based on hook lines. Chinese painting emphasizes pen as the leading factor, and pen and ink come from pen. The key to using bone-based pen is whether it has pen power or not. Because only by using the bone method with a pen can the Chinese painting drawn in this way be the most vital and full of charm.