How to color Chinese painting and landscape painting

The simplest coloring method is light red coloring. Crimson is red, and light crimson landscape originally refers to traditional landscape painting with light ochre as the main tone, and later refers to a light coloring painting method based on ink and wash. Rub, rub, dot, dye, hook and pinch. When coloring, be careful not to draw flat, do not cover with ink lines, and the color should be changed. Root out the structure, don't scribble. Must have rhythm, not chaos.

After the ink sketch is completed, it can be colored to enrich the picture effect. The requirement for color in sketch painting does not emphasize the change of conditional color of the scene, but mainly focuses on large-area decorative color, paying attention to the inherent color of the scene, such as ochre for trunk, juice green for leaves, light ochre for Shi Gen, and dark blue or juice green and flower blue for stone surface.

The raw materials used are nothing more than ochre, cyanine, gamboge, vermilion, eosin and so on. , and the first three colors are the most commonly used. Generally, three or four colors are enough.

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Other coloring skills of Chinese painting

China's freehand coloring techniques mainly include color filling, dyeing, masking, color breaking, ink splashing and contrast.

1, color filling method

Also known as cross-hatching method, cross-hatching method and contour method. First mark the outline of the object with ink lines, and then fill in the color within the range marked with ink lines, so it should be flat and even, so it is also called single-line flat drawing.

2. Dyeing method

There are light shading, heavy shading, receiving dyeing, supporting dyeing and spot dyeing. The requirements for rendering freehand brushwork are: first adjust the light color on the brush, then adjust the dark color on the pen tip, and naturally present different colors on the rice paper. Large-scale dyeing is done with a large pen or even a shading pen, so that it has a sense of texture, space, dirt, greasy and gray.

3, cover color method

In freehand brushwork, after ink painting, in order to strengthen the tone of this part. Then cover it with a layer of stone color to make this part of the image more eye-catching and thicker.

4, throwing color method

It is mainly used for freehand brushwork painting. On the basis of large pieces of ink splashing, full and dripping stone color (with hiding power) is splashed on the painting, so that heavy color is combined with ink hue, thus making the color sense and volume sense of the object more prominent and heavy.

5, color ink method

That is, dip in ink and color. Mainly in color, or dipped in ink. The sparrows are mainly in ink and wash, and the colors are picturesque. Color with light ink first. Dip in ochre and draw feathers and green leaves. Soak the juice green first. Dip in ink again. A stroke naturally shows the shade of green leaves.

6, broken color method

There are water, ink, strong color, light color, light color, stone color, grass color, stone color, ink color and so on. , such as flower leaves, can be checked out with heavy ink when the leaf color is quick-drying, or with rouge line when a pink hibiscus color is quick-drying, so that the texture and rhythm of the picture are more realistic and eye-catching.

7. Film sticking method

Often used for strokes and freehand brushwork, such as drawing a banana beside it. On the front, the veins of banana leaves are marked with thick and thin ink lines, and on the back, they are set off with stone green.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Chinese painting