How to set color in Chinese painting?

Mostly used in brush painting.

Working-brush landscapes with lime green as the main color are called "lime green landscapes" or "big lime green". This coloring can only be done on cooked silk and paper. First outline red with light ink, and then use all kinds of coloring methods of brush painting, layer by layer to color up, and finally use thick ink to outline open wake up, point moss refreshing. In the green landscape commonly used methods are:

Lining method: in the back of the silk or paper coated with a layer of color corresponding to the front of the scene, so that the front of the color is thicker or more vivid. For example, dyeing the leaves with juice green and lining the back with stone green, dyeing the rocks with stone green and lining the back with stone green, and so on.

Rendering method: at the same time with two brushes, one dipped in color on the paper, one dipped in water to melt the color away, resulting in color changes from thick to light, in order to express the brightness of the object, or the clouds and fog.

Covering method: that is, first lay the bottom, then cover the color of the method. Generally, the first rendering method on the base color, layer after layer of dyeing, the color should be heavy; and then add to paint one or two cover color, cover color should be sharp and thin. According to different needs, choose different base color and cover color, so that the two complement each other, resulting in sharp, heavy, complex, rich color effect. Such as the use of blue pavement cover stone green, it is thick and heavy; ochre pavement cover stone green, it is bright and warm.

2, light color method

This kind of coloring is applicable to the painting method of writing or half-working and half-writing, and is also suitable for the brush painting method. It is mainly ink and color only plays a supporting role. With the light color method, the ink bone is very important, ink bone painting, painting enough, the object in the paper stood up, then as long as the "light flick Danqing", can enhance the works of God color flavor.

The light color method can be divided into two categories: one with ochre as the main color, known as "light reddish-red landscape"; one with green as the main color. The color should have a main tone, and strive for simplicity and wholeness. Light-reddish-red landscape favors hot colors, but there should be changes in the hot colors, either from the depth of the chromatic scale, or with a little cold color to wake up, in order to achieve the effect of both simple and rich. Green landscapes favor cold colors, but also to break the hot colors; the so-called "a little bit of red in the green bushes, annoying spring color do not have to be more", is an example of the use of the right way.

The steps of coloring have the following ways: ink before color, color before ink, color and ink alternately, ink and color combination.

3, color splash method

This is a kind of ink splash method as the basis, borrowed from the "water", "color" two methods, and from the Western painting to draw nourishment and create a new technique. For example, Zhang Daqian, Liu Haisu's splash of color method of high attainments.

4, rock color method

5, fresco method

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Chinese paintings use pigments in two categories: one type is mineral, such as cinnabar, ochre, stone green, stone green, stone yellow, white powder, gold powder, silver powder, and so on; the other is plant-based. The other type is the plant quality, such as blue, vine yellow, carmine, magenta and so on. Ancient painters with color is very careful, often more do-it-yourself production, raw materials to be authentic, through the research, refining, sinking, phasing and other production processes, divided into deep, shallow, fine, coarse, and then selected. Ancient paintings of mineral pigments, and well-made, although thousands of years later still does not change color, such as Dunhuang murals as well as Han tomb murals, and still maintains the bright colors.

All kinds of pigments are briefly described as follows:

Cinnabar: it is a kind of natural amalgam, and in recent times, there are also synthetic ones, which have strong covering power, and generally only use the original color, and then point the red leaves in the autumn, and paint the balustrades of pavilions and platforms, and so on.

Ochre: although it is a mineral, the quality is lighter and clearer, and can be used with other colors. In light-color landscape paintings, it is often used as the main color for dyeing rocks and tree trunks, and it is also used to paint distant mountains, indicating the color of the peaks under the returning sun.

Stone green: minerals, covering power is very strong. After clarification, according to its quality of lightness is divided into the first green, two green, three green. Landscape paintings only use the light quality of the two green, three green, can be used for point clip leaves or open wake up point moss; in the green landscape used to dye the prominent parts of the rocks.

Stone green: minerals, covering power is also strong. After clarification, divided into head green, two green, three green. The first green is heavy and deep, and is rarely used in landscape painting, while the second and third greens are widely used in heavy and light-colored landscape painting.

Shihuang: mineral, only used in landscape paintings to point the leaves.

White powder: lead white, zinc white, clam powder and other varieties, green landscape with it to cumulative dyeing of white clouds, snow landscape is also used in it to dye the snow on the mountain, or with the spring sprinkle method of expression of flying snow in the air.

Golden powder, silver powder: only used in gold and blue heavy color landscape painting.

Floral green: for the dye indigo products, the most widely used in landscape painting, rocks, grass and trees are used, can be adjusted with garcinia cambogia various shades of green, plus a small amount of magenta can be matched with purple.

Garcinia Cambogia: the resin of a vine plant, poisonous, can not be imported. Garcinia Cambogia alone, easy to produce fire, so more and other colors used. The former drawings of tree branches with garcinia cambogia into the ink, there is a sense of pale and moist.

Rouge: cochineal flower products, landscape paintings are only used to dye the peach blossoms in spring and autumn leaves.

Magenta: vegetable pigment, initially imported from abroad, so it is called western red, and nowadays the lead tube pigment is labeled as eosin. In addition, there is a big red, also belongs to the same nature. The usage is the same as rouge, and it is pink when it is mixed with white powder.