What are the 4 basic strokes of Chinese painting?

1. Hook

Also called outlining or line drawing. It is very expressive and can represent objects independently (as in white drawing). Figure painting in the clothing pattern, artifacts, flowers and birds in the flowers, leaves, branches and trunks, landscape paintings in the outline of the mountains and rocks), trees, buildings, cars, boats are often expressed by hook method. Especially in brush painting, the hook method is more common.

2, chapped

The word originally means that the skin is cold wind blowing coarse wrinkled meaning. Painting in this chapped word, refers to the performance of the surface of the object is rough and uneven a technique, landscape in the rocks, mainly by chapped to show.

3, point

Shanshui painting in the point is mainly point moss and point leaves, rocks and prostitutes are also useful point chapped (such as raindrops, beans). In the figure painting and bird and flower painting, with a lot of points. For example, writing the swallow leaves, most of them are using the point of the brushwork.

4, dye

Dyeing is also one of the common expression of Chinese painting, but it can not be independent of the painting, but only an auxiliary technique. For example, the dyeing method used in brushwork figure painting and brushwork flower and bird painting is a complementary effect of the hook.

Characteristics of Chinese Painting

Chinese painting has its own distinctive features:

1, pay attention to the "rhythm and vividness", is not confined to the appearance of the object's resemblance, but more emphasis on the expression of the author's subjective interests. Chinese painting emphasizes "writing God in shape", and pursues a feeling of "wonderful between likeness and unlikeness"

2, paying attention to the charm of the ink and brush, the requirements of the brushwork: flat, round, stay, heavy, and change. Ink method requires ink in five colors, burnt, thick, heavy, light, clear.

3, pay attention to the "bone method of brushwork", do not pay attention to the focus of perspective, do not emphasize the environment for the object of the influence of light and color changes.

4, pay attention to the layout of the blank and the object's "momentum".