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When painting Chinese painting, what skills should we pay attention to while using color and water?

Our ancestors used red, yellow, blue, white and black as five primary colors, which is different from the three primary colors in western painting. "Band Coloring" in Sheikh's Six Laws. Different colors have different feelings, and painters often use colors to express their feelings. The commonly used colors in Chinese painting are ink, gamboge, stone yellow, khaki, rouge, magenta, cinnabar, cinnabar, ochre, cyan, azurite (three green, two green, three green), stone green (three green, two green, three green) and white powder. But basically, magenta, ochre, cyanine and gamboge are commonly used. Color hobbies vary from person to person: old and young, each different; Men and women are different; This area is different from other areas; There are also differences between this country and that country.

Painters demand similarities and differences. The color matching formula of China folk artists says: "I would rather die than be black or white, clear and distinct, red or green, with flowers and yellow powder cages." In short, when using color, we should ensure that color does not interfere with ink painting, and ink painting can be integrated without color, which can also show the charm of ink painting, thus producing an elegant and simple effect.

Although ink painting and brushwork are wonderful, they are mainly made of "water". If you don't master the skills of using water well, you won't produce good works of art. Huang (Painting Quotations) says: "The ancients' ink painting was better than water, and ink painting was deified. Still in the pen power, the pen power is insufficient and the ink is disgraceful. "Only by dipping the pen in ink and drawing water on rice paper can the color change of ink be reflected. The water is not well mixed, and the ink color is disgraceful. The shade, dryness and wetness of ink are all formed through the regulation of water. For example, Qi Baishi painted shrimp, shrimp body and shrimp head. Shrimp brains are all drawn with ink mixed with different amounts of water.

When a part is too thick or overcoated, you can dip a clean pen in some clear water for stippling, so as to break through those dissatisfied parts and produce new effects. This effect is called broken ink painting. Before breaking the water, brush the paper with clear water, or draw some pictures on a certain part according to the needs of composition, and then apply it with thick and light ink before it is dry, so that the ink is muddy, naturally permeates, is used properly and has wonderful effects. For example, when painting distant mountains, first use clear water as the base, and then use light ink to cross slightly to show its ethereal elegance.