Chinese painting techniques: what is dyeing, dyeing, dyeing and cover dyeing

Tongyi

Tongyi leaves, this step do not pay attention to the leaves around the undulation of the changes in height, ignoring the details and pay more attention to the performance of the overall relationship between light and dark, the upper layer of the leaves to be a little brighter, Tongyi area is also a little smaller. And the lower layer of the leaves are dyeing area increased, the color can also be a little deeper or more dyeing one or two times.

Split-dyeing

Use a slightly heavier ink blue (blue and ink) to split-dye the leaves according to the object's height and the relationship between the front and back layers, to localize and clarify the relationship between the leaves.

Dyeing

This step is to dye the darkest part of the leaf with heavy ink, and to dye the bright part of the front leaf with head green, and the bright part of the back leaf with four greens (three greens and white), to maximize the contrast between dark and light, and to prepare for the overall overlay dyeing of the color in the next step.

Overdyeing

Leaves last overall overdyeing thin emerald green (phthalocyanine blue and vine yellow with a little emerald green) to unify the overall tone of the leaves, while the positive leaf outlining leaf veins, anti-leaf rehashed light rouge, etc., so that the picture appears delicate, wet.