Techniques of Chinese Painting

The techniques of Chinese painting are as follows:

1. Brushwork

Calligraphy and painting have the same origin. The use of brushes in Chinese painting is basically the same as in Chinese calligraphy, because the main modeling tool in Chinese painting is the use of calligraphic lines. It is even said that if one learns Chinese calligraphy at home, one has learned half of Chinese painting. The method of using the brush also includes the body, finger and wrist.

2, fingering

is the key to holding the brush. Middle finger and forefinger hooked on the outside of the pen; thumb belly against the pen, and middle finger, forefinger to form a joint grip on the pen; and then, rely on the ring finger from the inside to the outside against the pen, plus the pinky finger in the ring finger of the bottom of the auxiliary push, with the top of the middle finger, forefinger and thumb, so that the pen can be made to do a 360 ° of free swing.

3, wrist method

The above "fingering" is important, but also pay attention to the wrist and elbow force in conjunction with each other, which is an integral part of the three, you can't have one without the other. Wrist strength is particularly important, as anyone familiar with table tennis knows, the grip of the paddle is similar to the fingering method, but in batting technique, wrist strength, elbow strength and even arm strength need to be combined organically, and they also attach great importance to wrist strength.

4, with the wrist, is the wrist attached to the table, favoring the use of finger power, mostly used for writing small caps and brush strokes.

5. Pillow wrist is to raise the wrist with the help of the left hand or other objects to make it easier to write slightly larger characters. The purpose is both steady, the range of movement of the pen is also a little larger.

6, lift the wrist, is the right elbow attached to the table, with the help of the wrist arm lengthening, so that the range of motion is greater, the finger force and wrist force with each other, flexible use, easy to write larger words or draw large paintings.

Chinese Painting

Chinese Painting is a traditional form of painting in China. Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, in which a brush is dipped in water, ink and color and painted on silk or paper. Tools and materials include brushes, ink, pigments, rice paper, silk, etc., and the subjects can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds. From the point of view of art history, before the Republic of China are collectively referred to as ancient paintings.

Chinese painting had no definite name in ancient times, and was generally called danqing, which is a self-contained system in the field of art in the world. Chinese painting, in terms of content and artistic creation, embodies the ancient people's understanding of nature, society and the political, philosophical, religious, moral, literary and natural aspects associated with it, and is one of the four arts of qin, qi, shu and painting.