The expressive technique of flower-and-bird painting

The expression of flower-and-bird painting is as follows:

There are many techniques of flower-and-bird painting, including meticulous flower-and-bird painting and freehand flower-and-bird painting (which can also be divided into big freehand flower-and-bird painting and small freehand flower-and-bird painting). According to modeling, it can be divided into two methods: sketch and boneless; According to the composition, it is divided into panoramic view and folding branch.

1, meticulous flower-and-bird painting

Meticulous flower-and-bird painting is a technique of creating on specially cooked rice paper or alum silk with special brush and Chinese painting pigments, which can be subdivided into heavy color, light color and ink color. Painting is often first hooked, then dyed, then colored with center pen line drawing, and vivid interest of nature is reflected with accurate sketch and artistic decoration.

2. freehand flower-and-bird painting

Freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting can be divided into big freehand brushwork and small freehand brushwork, using raw rice paper. Through the changeable brushwork, make full use of the interaction of water, ink, color, paper and pen, make the picture produce strange changes, reflect the dynamics and temperament of the depicted object, express the abstract artistic sense such as the rhythm and rhythm of the lines themselves, and entrust the painter's own subjective feelings and feelings.

However, whether it is meticulous or freehand brushwork, line modeling is still the mainstream technique. Line is not only a means of modeling, but also has independent artistic value. Its combination of thickness, dry and wet, insipid and discontinuous can produce abstract aesthetic feeling other than realistic modeling, and more effectively reflect the painter's subjective feeling.

3, chiseled, boneless

Since the Song Dynasty, flower-and-bird painting modeling mainly has two methods: sketching and boneless. Boneless flower refers to a painting technique that takes lines as the base and directly shapes images with color or ink.

This method was initiated by Xu Chongsi in Song Dynasty and inherited the legacy of Naizu Xu Xi, which is unique. In Qing Dynasty, Yun inherited and developed this method, and created a school of meticulous painting with vivid images and bright colors, which opened up a new life for China's flower-and-bird painting.

4. Panoramic view and folding branches

The composition of flower-and-bird painting mainly has two methods: panoramic view and folding branches. Panoramic layout has many contents, large scene, wide field of vision, realistic effect and triangular composition that echoes each other. It is the main composition method of college paintings from the Tang Dynasty to the early Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

According to legend, the method of folding branches was initiated by Bian Luan in the Tang Dynasty and became increasingly popular after the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. Its composition intercepts some flowers in nature for close-up performance, giving people rich subjective association space, and often tends to take advantage of the situation to form an S-shaped layout.

No matter whether it is a panoramic view or a broken branch, the composition of flower-and-bird painting is not a direct representation of natural scenery, but it needs artistic tailoring to achieve the best artistic effect. Commonly used layout methods are primary and secondary, density, reality, distance contrast, shade.