Stone drawing steps in Chinese painting

Stone is an important theme in flower-and-bird painting, which can be matched with stone in any freehand flower-and-bird painting. Stones in flower-and-bird paintings are different from those in landscape paintings. In traditional art, the aesthetic standards of stone are thinness, leakage, emptiness, transparency, strangeness and strangeness. Its strength and potential are vital and can increase the artistic conception and interest of the picture.

There are yin and yang on the back of the stone. In order to have a sense of form, it can be divided into three sides, two sides and one side. Upper white and lower black, upper sparse and lower dense, sparse white is yang, and black is dense. According to the needs of the picture, it can be large or small, high or low, vertical or horizontal, straight or oblique, round or simple. The pen is free and flexible, and the center and side of the pen interact with each other, emphasizing brushwork, light and dark, dry and wet, scraping and splashing, elastic and tight, in one go.

Hook stone painting: it is a more general and vivid method, which gives play to the tension and aesthetic interest of lines, coexistence of reality and reality, ups and downs, gathering and dispersing of the middle edges, dragging back and forth, and drifting with the flow. Rubbing is the texture of the stone, which enhances the three-dimensional sense of the stone. Hook while twisting, modeling three-dimensional, virtual inside, verve connected, lively.

Painting stone with tick-off method: Fill stone with colored ink after tick-off to enrich the expression of stone. Pay attention to the brush strokes when filling ink, and don't scribble at will.

Splash ink to paint stone: splash the stone shape with colored ink to make the ink muddy and vivid, but pay attention to the pen. Pen is bones and muscles, ink is skin. The pen is like its shape, and the ink has charm. Clever use of water, so that the dripping water is lush, the shade is suitable, the humidity is proper, the concentration is not stagnant, and the light is not floating. It's wonderful to see the wet air in the spray, though dry, still wet, leaving a blank.

Ink-breaking stone painting: after the colored ink is spilled, it is wet and broken with dry and heavy ink. It can be hooked, smashed, rubbed, pointed, unpredictable and interesting. You can break it once or many times, and the picture effect must be controlled.

Spotted moss: There are many kinds of spotted moss on natural stones, which are rich and colorful. In traditional Chinese painting, you can use various brushstrokes to remove moss, which has various shapes. Save three and gather five, which is subtle and vivid. Spot moss should be vivid and eye-catching. When it fails, it can be used to cover up the ugliness and break the situation. When it is weak, it will help the momentum, break the boring feeling and increase the vitality.