What do I need to pay attention to when painting plum blossoms?

The first step is to draw the branches. First dip the pen into the light ink, in the plate on the edge of the bracket dry some, and then dipped in deep ink, to draw the front of the branch in the center. Starting with a medium stroke, drawing to the lower end of the branch gradually turned side stroke, be sure to pay attention to the process of the brush, the branch white break, in order to fill in the flowers. You can also use lighter ink to draw the thick branches at the back of the side, and then add the deep branches in front. To be flexible according to the needs of the composition. Regardless of the method, the interlacing of branches and trunks, the relationship between density and disconnection of white are the same.

The second step is to circle the flowers with light ink. Pay attention to the gathering and dispersion of flowers and the side of the back of the expression of supine. Flowers and branches need to be repeated alternately. Painting the main branches, decide the overall picture, painting a good part of the side branches after the start of the flower painting, flower painting almost, and then interspersed in the flower branch tips, and then make up for some flowers, or add some more fine branch tips, so alternating, and gradually improve, can not be separated between the steps.

The third step, dealing with the heart of the flower, picking flower whiskers, point stamen head, point flower tip. Use a balder brush, with a strong ink in the center. The front and back of the flower is often shown only through the pointing.

The fourth step is to point moss, clean up and organize. After the basic completion of the stem, branches, flowers, etc., and then go back to look at the overall effect, the shortcomings and then make adjustments to the enrichment. Finally, in the appropriate part of the inscription plus seal. A plum blossom is completed.

Painting circle plum, generally do not color. In order to support the white flowers, can be in the petal outline of the periphery of the circle dyeing light ink. Can also be used light ochre or light grass green circle dyeing. Circle dyeing moisture to be sufficient, and strive to ooze effect, do not dry, stereotypes. After circle-dyeing, you can use a larger brush, add water and blend into a lighter ochre or grass green, sprinkled in the circle of flowers or branches and trunks, (sprinkled with sparse, should not be too much) so that the picture level is more varied and full, the overall atmosphere is better. The center of the flower is generally left white, or point yellow powder.

There are also painters, after painting, to the back of the paper petals filled with white powder, will make the white plum more full and prominent, adding color.

Composition of Plum Blossoms

Composition, in the traditional theory of Chinese painting, is called "management of position," or the layout of the picture. This is a problem that will inevitably be encountered when copying or creating a painting after understanding the growth pattern and structural characteristics of flowers, as well as the basic modeling methods and the requirements of ink and brushwork. The same is a kind of flowers, why educated painters into the painting, can give a person the enjoyment of beauty, while beginners are difficult to do, in addition to ink and brush skills, the overall layout of the picture, that is, the composition of the reasonable or not is very important. Therefore, brush and ink, form and composition are the main technical elements of a good painting.

The composition of Chinese flower or bird painting can be recognized from two aspects. The first is the specific technique or way of dealing with the picture, such as "S"-shaped composition, semi-circular composition, vertical and horizontal cross composition, etc. The second is to master the law of beauty in the layout of the picture. The second is to master the layout of the picture in the law of beauty, such as the main and auxiliary, reality, sparse and dense, gathering and dispersing, hiding and revealing, open and close, echo and so on. Learning to paint plum, master a few specific forms of composition is necessary, but fundamentally to understand and master the laws of composition, to do the same. Flexible use, in order to be able to change, handy, are briefly described.

Main and auxiliary: or "main", "main", "main", "main guest", etc., a picture of the main body, accompanied by. The main body is the focus or center of the picture. Layout strive for the location of the main body prominent, eye-catching, the other as a foil, the location should be hidden, painting line virtual some. The picture on the left shows a branch of plum in front of the main, after the guest. One main one auxiliary. A thick and a light, a tall and a short, a sparse and a dense, naturally forming a distinct rhythm and contrast. Do not be divided into primary and secondary, average treatment.

Specific use, but also the technique of contrast. That is, the small minor placed in front, the main body placed behind. Depending on the needs of the composition and presentation method.

Virtual and real: a painting, the overall layout must be contrasted with real and virtual, generally speaking, "there is a painting for the real, no painting for the virtual," or "there is a pen and ink at the place, no pen and ink at the place of the virtual". This is to illustrate the contrast between the blankness of the picture and the object. In the composition, there are often between the real and the imaginary, the real and the imaginary are used interchangeably, the real and the real are used to show the real, and the real breaks the imaginary and other techniques. Bird and flower paintings generally do not paint the background, leaving a large piece of blank space, that is, "false", and the painting of the object that is "real", or the nearer for the real and the farther for the false, or the main for the real guest for the false, are for the contrast effect of the picture. "Void" can give a person "to think wonderfully" of the work, the so-called "intention to the pen not", "not yet finished" is also being "to show the real in the virtual" wonderful effect. Never full of ink and brush, the painted object occupies all the blank, painted tightly, but make the viewer feel closed, lost the room for reverie.

Figure 45, in addition to the composition of the two branches of the plum blossom has a primary and secondary points, in the upper left to leave a large blank, that is, in order to seek the effect of reality.

Sparse and dense: Chinese painting theory in the "dense, sparse can go horse" law. Composition should be dense, sparse, sparse and dense in order to rhythmic and vivid, flat, no sparse and dense changes in the stereotypical bland, boring to watch. Painting plum blossoms, the main thing is to deal with the branches, flowers, moss points and other points, lines and surfaces of the arrangement of cross-relationships. Above, in front of the main branches thick and dense, behind the auxiliary branches light and sparse.

Gathering and dispersing: it refers to the relationship between concentration and dispersion. Painting plum blossoms, the distribution of flowers must be gathered together, sparsely dispersed, gathered and dispersed to be interconnected, so that the gathering but not plugged, scattered but not scattered, in order to be rhythmic, fascinating. Avoid average distribution, scattered layout.

Hiding and exposing, concealing and revealing: according to the mood and the needs of the artistic approach to the picture, in the composition, often some parts to hide, some parts to reveal. Some parts of the painting to be more conspicuous, some places to be hidden. Generally, the main part of the eye-catching and prominent, accompanied by some part of the hidden. But some of the composition, the main part of the body should also have hidden, hidden. Such as the performance of the old trunk of ancient plum mainly picture "old trunk new posture", composition, although the old trunk occupies the main position of the picture, but the specific strokes, we must deal with the relationship between hidden and hidden. In order to make the picture to produce the size of the thick and thin, thick and thin before and after a strong contrast and subtle and varied artistic effect.

Opening and closing: refers to the complete unity of the picture composition. Doors and windows have switches, stories have beginnings and endings, articles have beginnings and endings, and paintings also have beginnings and endings. Some paintings make people feel that the painting is not finished, this is not a good. Such as painting a dragon, painting the dragon body for the "open", eye-dotting for the "close", painting the dragon without eye-dotting, it is a dead dragon. Painting plum blossoms is the same, only circle point petals without pointing the center of the flower, just like painting a dragon without pointing the eyes, seems to have no spirit, that is, only open does not fit. Whether it is a small composition, a large composition should deal with the relationship between open and close, some images have a few open and close, should be handled carefully, so as to achieve complete unity. Do not have a head without a tail, halfway.

Echoing: also known as "Gu Pan", refers to the picture of the shape of the object, the tone of each other to coordinate, echo, and reflect each other's interest. Composition should be in the upper and lower, left and right, before and after, the main and auxiliary aspects to consider, so that they do look forward and back, through the veins, the scene blending. Do not mechanically fit together, each something unrelated to each other.

Figure 47, the main body of the plum, the main stem on the hair, the side of the hair of the twigs in the picture above the turn down, and the lower right side of the plum branches up and down, forming a look forward and back, so that the composition of the picture is full of changes and interest. It avoids the monotony of the main and auxiliary plum blossoms, with all the branches upwards.

In summary, both general bird and flower painting composition to create an important law of formal beauty, but also when painting plum blossoms should master the law. Plum blossom composition and other flowers are similar, according to the plum blossom to show the main branches, the composition can be summarized as "long and short, thick and thin, how many, horizontal and vertical" eight words. Plum flowers of all forms of composition, all variations, all from these eight words.

Composition seeks to form a beautiful, varied, and then seek unity, "change and unity" is the general requirements of the composition. Change and unity are two contradictory aspects of things. A painting without "change" is a board, and "change" is chaos. That is to say, when painting in the ink, shape, color and other aspects of too unified, inevitably dull, monotonous, lifeless. Must cause a variety of "contradictions" in the expression, in order to produce the ups and downs, washing and rhythm and rhythm and other things of beauty. Plum blossom composition, it is the use of the law of unity of contradictions, to create a variety of compositional forms.