Painting techniques of Dongba painting

The painting techniques of Dongba paintings vary from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, but they can be roughly divided into two categories:

(1) those that retain the primitive and simple painting methods; Such as Dongba painting spectrum, Mupai painting and Confucian classics painting, etc., such paintings are mostly drawn with bamboo pens and natural pigments, and painted flat on a single line; The modeling is simple and Gu Zhuo, concise and generalized, with exaggerated deformation, rough and smooth lines, frankness and boldness, both rigidity and softness, and the beauty of simplicity and childishness.

(2) Absorbing and integrating Chinese and Tibetan painting methods; For example, some scroll paintings, divine road drawings and some card paintings with fine brushwork. This kind of painting is mostly painted with brush and mineral pigments, which organically combines the traditional Gu Zhuo painting style of Dongba painting with the foreign fine and beautiful painting style, forming a style of thickness and density, with increasingly rigorous composition, complex pictures, distinct layers, rich colors, neat lines, accurate modeling and breakthrough development in technical skills.