What are the tools and materials for Chinese painting

The tools and materials for Chinese painting, the "Four Treasures of the House of Letters" (brush, ink, paper and ink stone) and pigments, are essential for Chinese painting.

The brushes used in Chinese painting are: wolf-hair brushes, part-hair brushes, goat-hair brushes, and outlining brushes in large and small sizes. Wolf brushes are generally used to paint the branches of trees; part-hair brushes are used to paint flowers and leaves; and goat-hair brushes are used for coloring.

Ink for Chinese painting: pine smoke ink, oil smoke ink, ink. Generally use oil smoke ink, special circumstances, such as landscape painting, need to pine smoke ink. Learning Chinese painting practice can be replaced by ink, but after reaching a certain level, you still need to grind their own ink, the ink color will be more moist.

Paper for Chinese painting: raw xuan, cooked xuan, cooked silk, half raw and cooked xuan paper. Raw Xuan is generally used for freehand painting, especially for large capitals, but one thing that needs to be emphasized is that it must be handmade raw Xuan in order to halo the effect of the ink. Semi-raw xuan paper is used for painting birds and flowers in small capitalization or landscapes of the Yuan Dynasty. Ripe Xuan and ripe silk are used for painting brushstrokes of flowers, white drawings, and landscapes of the Song Dynasty.

Ink and inkstone for Chinese painting: If it is ink, then an inkstone made of ordinary inkstone will do. If you are using ink sticks to study ink, the oil smoke ink needs to be used in conjunction with the use of a more delicate ink stone, the ink color will be more fine and moist. The use of pine smoke ink, do not use too delicate ink stone, because the pine smoke ink is mostly used in heavy ink, pine smoke ink is characterized by black but not bright. Selection of inkstone, inkstone can be, according to the specific circumstances to choose the fineness can be.

Chinese painting pigment: general beginners with straw pigment can be common on the market, "beauty", "Mary" pigment can be, if you choose Mary brand pigment is recommended to choose the blue packaging. If you choose Mary's brand pigments, it is recommended to choose the blue package. If you have learned a certain degree or you are more particular about the pigments, you can choose the block pigments. If you have higher requirements, you can use powdered pigment (Jiang Si Xu), which can adjust the color and brightness, but it is not recommended for beginners.

In fact, the rock material belongs to the mineral pigment category. Some of the vegetable pigments will corrode the rice paper. Make the paper yellow and brittle, such as vine yellow; some colors are easy to fade, especially the flower green. We see that before the Ming Dynasty or mid-Qing Dynasty paintings, the blue and white part has been very light or has been close to fading but colorless. Mineral color basically will not fade, the Jin and Tang Dynasty remains of those cinnabar is still very bright it! But some of the moisture will change color, such as lead powder, will become gray-black. These conditions are encountered when viewing old paintings. Chinese paintings must use Chinese pigments, which are one of the material factors that make up the style of Chinese paintings. This is certainly true of all traditional Chinese paintings. There are exceptions, such as Western red is foreign, Chinese painters have used it before.