What are the traditional Chinese painting techniques? Common sense of Chinese painting

Chinese painting techniques include the basic painting techniques of landscapes, figures, flowers and birds.

The most significant feature of Chinese painting techniques is that it is based on ink lines, which are used to express the outline, light and shade, and texture of objects. At the same time, ink lines can also express the painter's thoughts and spirit.

The ink lines of Chinese painting itself have an independent aesthetic value.

The techniques of Chinese painting can actually be understood as the way Chinese painters use the brush, that is, the techniques of using brushes and inks resulting from the brush. The ink technique includes the technique of color.

In the development process of Chinese painting, especially after the Yuan Dynasty (the intervention of literati painters), the lyrical meaning of Chinese painting became more and more intense.

The meaning of the brush and ink of Chinese painting is no longer a simple technical issue, but a synonym for Chinese painting.

The spirit of Chinese painting is permeated in the brush and ink concept of Chinese painting.

Simply put, the brushwork of Chinese painting is composed of points, lines, and surfaces, and the use of lines is the most important.

The ink method uses the function of water to produce different changes of thick, light, dry, wet, deep and shallow.

The method of writing lines in Chinese painting is called "using pen", and the method of using ink in Chinese painting is called "using ink".

The ancients summarized several characteristics of using a pen: 1.

Flat, like "a cone drawing sand", the force is even and not knotted or stagnant. Only by controlling the pen can the line be flat and powerful.

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The circle is like a "twisted hairpin strand", plump, smooth and round, powerful in turning, elastic, turning freely, hard and soft, flexible and powerful.

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Stay, like "house leakage marks", highly controlled, accumulated points into a line, neither floating nor floating, like carving into the wall, steady and powerful.

The lines are highly controlled, leaving every trace of the lines, so that the strokes follow the mind.

Guoxi of the Song Dynasty said: "One way to use the pen cannot be used as a pen; one way to use ink cannot be used as an ink. Brush and ink are superficial things that people do, and if they don't know how to use them, how can they be perfect?"

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Heavy, like "a rock falling from a high mountain", the pen has to be powerful. The pressure of the pen should be strong, it should be able to press the paper, it should be full of power, penetrate the back of the paper, and penetrate into the wood three-thirds of the time.

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Changes, such as "hundreds of rivers return to the sea" and "a startled snake enters the grass".

The ancients summarized various changes in the use of ink into the following method, which is called the ink method.

The predecessors have a lot of experience in using ink. In summary, there are seven main methods: thick ink method, light ink method, burnt ink method, accumulated ink method, broken ink method, accumulated ink method, and splashed ink method.

"The ancients' ink technique is more wonderful than water." Therefore, ink technique is inseparable from the use of water.

Thick ink method.

When using thick ink, it should be thick, moist and vivid.

Dip the tip of the pen into thick ink and draw quickly.

Light ink method.

There are two types: wet light and dry light. In wet light, the pen is first dipped in clean water, then a small amount of thick ink, and then painted quickly after mixing it slightly.

Burnt ink method.

The key to using burnt ink is that there still needs to be a certain amount of moisture at the base of the pen. During the squeezing of the pen, the water seeps out of the burnt ink to achieve the effect of moisture contained in the burnt ink.

Sumo method.

It is divided into two types: thick place and light place.

Due to the degumming of the ink, it contains residue and the ink marks are exposed.

Therefore, when using the pen, pay attention to the looseness and looseness of the pen, and do not drag it.

Break the ink method.

It can be divided into thick and light, light and thick, dry and wet, wet and dry, and there are many changes such as water breaking through ink, ink breaking through water, ink breaking through color, color breaking through ink, etc.

The ink breaking method should be carried out when the ink is about to dry to take advantage of the natural penetration of water.