Chinese painting pigments are how to mix

Three parts of alum, seven parts of gum, all soaked in warm water.

Gum and alum: on the stone green, stone green, cinnabar and other heavy colors to prevent the color from falling off.

Available glue alum water cover, alum has a powder and block, glue is bottled liquid deer glue and strip or block of cow glue, fish glue, deer glue, it is best to prepare a set of cups, alcohol lamps, in order to melt the glue transfer of water.

Tools for Chinese painting:

1, brush

The length of the brush can be divided into long, medium and short strokes, with different performance. Long strokes are easy to draw graceful lines, short strokes are easy to drop the paper heavy and thick, medium strokes, short strokes are both, painting landscapes with medium strokes is appropriate.

According to the size of the brush, the brush is divided into small, medium and large models.

2, ink

Commonly used ink raw materials are oil smoke, pine smoke two kinds of ink made of oil smoke ink and pine smoke ink. Oil smoke ink made of tung oil smoke, ink color black and shiny, can show the ink thickness of the detailed changes, suitable for landscape painting; pine smoke ink black and no light, mostly used for plumes and characters of the hair, landscape painting should not be used.

3, paper

Chinese painting in the Tang and Song dynasties, mostly with silk, to the Yuan dynasty after a large number of paper for painting. Chinese paintings with paper other paintings are different, it is the green sandalwood tree as the main raw material for the production of Xuan paper, Xuan paper produced in Jing County, Anhui Province, the ancient belongs to the Xuanzhou, so it is called Xuan paper.

4, inkstone

Inkstone China's most famous inkstone is Sheyan and Duanyan. Sheyan produced in Anhui Shexian, DuanYan produced in Guangdong GaoYao County. Good inkstone. General calligraphy and painting to choose from all over the production of inkstone can be, choose the inkstone mainly choose its stone texture is delicate, moist, easy to send ink, do not absorb water. Ink stone should be cleaned in time after use, keep clean, avoid exposure to the sun, fire baked.

5, pigment

China's painting development to the Tang Dynasty, to heavy color as the mainstream, since the Song Dynasty ink painting prevails, in the literati standard elegant trend, the use of color has gradually declined tendency; However, the practitioners of the traditional painting pigments should be aware of, for the multi-faceted development, or with the ink and water for a better combination.

Traditional pigments for Chinese painting can be divided into mineral pigments, vegetable pigments, metallic pigments, animal pigments and artificial pigments according to their raw materials

Mineral pigments are ground from ores, with heavy color and strong coverage, and commonly used ones are:

(1)Rock green: usually in powder form, it is necessary to mix with glue when it is used, and according to the fineness of the rock green, it can be divided into first green, second green, third green, fourth green, etc. The first green is the coarsest, and the third green is the thickest, the fourth green is the thickest, The first green is the coarsest and the greenest, and then it is gradually thinning and fading.

(2) stone green: performance and use of roughly the same as the stone green, stone green is also divided into head green, two green, three green, four green and so on, head green particles are coarse, it is difficult to dye evenly, should be dyed a few times before good.

(3) Zhu Jing: Zhu Jing, also known as Tatsumi Jing with bright colors into the better vermilion, there are also made into ink, Zhu Jing is not suitable for mixing stone green, stone green use.

(d) Zhu fat: (Zhu standard) is Zhu Jing research fine, blended into the clear glue, floating in the upper part of the orange color.

(5) Ochre: Also known as shiju, it is produced from hematite and is light brown in color. Nowadays, ochre is mostly refined into a water-soluble gelatinous mass that is not covered.

(6) White Powder: It can be divided into lead powder, clam powder, chalk, etc. Clam powder is processed from the clam shells in the sea and made into fine powder, which is easy to "return to the lead" and become black, and can be washed with hydrogen peroxide to return to the white color, and chalk (white clay powder) is commonly used in ancient murals, and also does not change its color for a long time.

Commonly used plant pigments include:

(7) Flowering green: the leaves of Polygonum tinctorium or big blue are used to make blue starch, and then the green pigment is refined, which is widely used, and it can be adjusted to turn vine yellow into grass-green or soft green.

(8) Garcinia Cambogia: The sea vine tree in the tropical forest in the south, from which holes are cut in the bark, a gelatinous yellow liquid flows out, which is taken in a bamboo tube and can be used when it dries out, but Garcinia Cambogia is poisonous and cannot be imported.

(IX) rouge (fat): with red and blue flowers, cedar, purple stalks of three plants made of dark red pigment, but rouge for painting, the phenomenon of fading for a long time, and nowadays more to replace the Western red.

6, other tools

Besides the above mentioned brushes, ink, inkstones, paper, silk, and pigments, we need to prepare the related tools:

(1) Color mixing (color storage) tools: white porcelain products are better, and there should be several small plates for mixing the color or ink, and it is more ideal to use plum blossom plates and layers of plates to remove the color, and the different pigments should be stored separately.

(2) Water pot: It is used for washing brushes or supplying water, and it is better to be made of white porcelain.

(3) thin blanket: lined on the table, can prevent the ink penetration will be stained paintings, laying paper, the picture is not easy to be rubbed by the pen will be damaged paper.

(4) glue and alum: on the stone green, stone green, cinnabar and other heavy color to prevent the color off, the available glue alum water cover, alum has a powder and block, glue is bottled liquid deer glue and strips or blocks of cattle glue, fish glue, deer glue, etc., it is best to have a set of cups, alcohol lamps, in order to melt the glue to mix the water.

(5) milk bowl: when the powdered pigment particles are too coarse, it is necessary to use the milk bowl to grind them and then place them in a beaker \flying bleach. In addition, you can have a pen stand for hanging the brush, a paperweight for pressing the paper, a cutter for cutting the paper, charcoal strips for starting the draft, absorbent cotton waste cloth (or waste paper), as well as sealing clay and seals for inscriptions, and so on, as appropriate.

Expanded Information:

Chinese Painting Forms:

Chinese paintings come in a variety of forms, such as horizontal, rectangular, square, round, and flat shapes, and there are also sizes and lengths. In addition to wall paintings, the following are common:

1, in the hall

Old Chinese houses, high ceilings, so the living room in the middle of the wall is suitable to hang a huge painting, known as the "hall".

2, banner

A long strip of paintings and drawings into the banner, couplets are also made of two banners. Banners can be horizontal or straight, horizontal and plaque similar. Whether calligraphy or painting, can be designed as a banner or four or even more banners. Commonly, there are spring, summer, fall and winter banners.

Each painted four seasons of flowers and birds or landscape, four as a group. As for the longer poems, such as not written in the hall, can also be framed as a banner, quite beautiful.

3, horizontal approval

Also known as banners, long, horizontal painting framed, can be hung independently of the room.

4, small works

The so-called small works, that is, the volume of the smaller paintings and drawings. Horizontal can be straight, after framing, suitable for hanging thin walls or rooms, very delicate.

5, frame

will be framed with wood or metal frame, on the pressure of glass or film, it becomes the pressure mirror. Modern film has the advantages of non-reflective and lightweight. As for the non-reflective glass, it will not affect people's appreciation of the picture, so it is very popular.

6, scroll

Scroll is a feature of Chinese painting, the painting and calligraphy will be framed into a banner, under the round wood for the shaft, the painting and calligraphy rolled in the outside of the shaft, in order to collect.

7, fan

Folding fan or round fan fan inscriptions on the surface of the writing and painting to take the framing, can be pressed mirror. Because of the beautiful form of the round or fan, so some people will cut the picture into a fan before painting, and then mounted, a unique style.

8, booklet

Words and paintings will be bound into an album, known as the booklet. In recent times, there are stationery stores, especially the cost of framed albums, for people to wield the brush. Booklet can be folded picture into a square, and with the following differences in the scroll.

9, scroll

The painting will be framed into a scroll, become a scroll, mostly horizontal. And the picture is continuous, compared with the booklet page by page appears different.

10, the bucket square

will be framed into a square foot or so of painting and calligraphy, to become a bucket square. Can be pressed mirror, can be mounted flat.

11, screen

Single one can be placed on the table with the mirror screen, with a frame inlaid with the seat, standing on the table, is one of the traditional decoration. As for the screen, a single or folded, can be matched with paintings and drawings, sitting and standing screen.

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