What is the difference between boneless and freehand brushwork?

The difference between boneless and freehand brushwork is that:

1, boneless painting is a painting method that directly expresses color without ink lines. It is said that boneless painting was created by Xu Chongsi in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were few painters since then. Yun in the early Qing Dynasty was a master of reviving this painting method, which had a great influence. Boneless painting is also more suitable with cooked paper. Because there is no ink line, the relationship between the front and rear leaves or petals is bent with a blank "waterline", which has the taste of white as black.

2. Boneless painting can also be subdivided into several ways of expression: the first one is more detailed, such as double hook coloring method, which only omits the ink lines of double hooks and adds dyes layer by layer. The second painting method is a little looser than the freehand brushwork, and it is directly colored and completed at one time. The third painting method is to trim the color first, and dye the part with other similar colors before drying, thus producing a semi-fused effect or a slightly mottled color change.

3. Freehand brushwork refers to expressing the mental state of the object with simple and summarized pen and ink, which is a painting method that does not seek to look like a god. According to the records in the history of painting, Wu Daozi's painting of Jialing River landscape or Wang Qia splash ink in the Tang Dynasty may have taken a freehand form. Among the paintings handed down, Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty, Mo Zhu of Wen Tong, Badashanren, Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou and Stone Painting School all expanded many fields for freehand flower-and-bird painting.

4. The freehand brushwork of flower-and-bird painting mostly adopts the technique of "point pile" or "point cluster", which can be subdivided into the method of hooking flowers and point leaves, the method of small freehand brushwork and the method of large freehand brushwork. Suitable for freehand brushwork with base paper, you can paint with ink alone or in several colors. The pen first contains a light color, and then a dark color is applied to the tip. You can also paint it dark first and then dip it in water. Each pen should have a change of depth, which is easy to blend with the original paper.