The pigments of Chinese painting are mostly extracted from what and minerals

Chinese painting pigments are mostly extracted from plants and minerals.

As follows:

Chinese Painting Pigment, also called Chinese Painting Pigment, is a special pigment used to paint Chinese paintings. They are generally sold in tubes in paste and block form, and also in powder form.

Traditional Chinese painting pigments, it is generally divided into two categories: mineral pigments and vegetable pigments, from the history of use, should be the first mineral, then vegetable, just like the ink first pine smoke, then oil smoke. The bright color left on the rock paintings in the ancient times, according to the laboratory, it was found that mineral pigment (such as cinnabar) was used.

The remarkable feature of mineral pigment is that it is not easy to fade and the color is bright, most of those who have seen Zhang Daqian's late splash of color paintings have this impression, and the large area of stone green, stone green, and cinnabar can make people's spirit be invigorated! Plant pigments are mainly extracted from trees and flowers.

Botanical pigments:

1, flower green (indigo will be put in the milk bowl to beat, about four two indigo, to use eight hours to beat it. After the ring research, to the glue placed on the clarification, clarification, the top of the floating skimmed out, skimmed out, is the flower green)

2, garcinia cambogia (poisonous, dicotyledonous plant medicine garcinia cambogia family garcinia cambogia gelatinous resin)

3, cochineal (safflower bubble out of red dyes, Asteraceae safflower in the genus of cultivars, the scientific name of Carthamus tinctorius L.)

3, rouge (red dye, Asteraceae safflower in the genus, the scientific name of the red dye) )

4, magenta (imported, cochineal extracted from the cochineal bug, although not a plant but is classified as such)