Who knows how big the rice paper is for a four-inch Chinese painting, how many centimeters

The size of the four foot full size is: 138mm x 69mm.

The size of the four foot triptych is: 69mm x 46mm.

The size of the four foot quarto is: 69mm x 34mm .

Four-foot-sixths measures 46mm x 34mm.

Four-foot-eighths measures 35mm x 34mm.

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Brush

Brushes can be divided into long stroke, medium stroke, and short stroke, depending on the length of the blade. The brushes can be divided into long strokes, medium strokes and short strokes with different performances. Long strokes are easy to draw graceful lines, short strokes are easy to fall on the paper heavy and thick, medium strokes, short strokes are both, painting landscapes with medium strokes is appropriate. According to the size of the brush, the brush is divided into small, medium and large models.

Ink

Commonly used ink raw materials are oil smoke, pine smoke two kinds of ink made of oil smoke ink and pine smoke ink. Oil smoke ink made of tung oil smoke, ink color black and glossy, can show the ink thickness of the detailed changes, suitable for landscape painting; pine smoke ink black and no light, more for plumes and characters of the hair, landscape painting should not be used.

Paper

Chinese paintings in the Tang and Song dynasties, mostly with silk, to the Yuan Dynasty after a large number of paper for painting. The paper used in Chinese painting is different from other kinds of paintings, it is green sandalwood tree as the main raw material for the production of Xuan paper, Xuan paper is produced in Jingxian County, Anhui Province, which belongs to Xuanzhou in ancient times, so it is called Xuan paper.

Inkstone

Inkstone China's most famous inkstone is Sheyan and Duanyan. Sheyan produced in Anhui Shexian, Duanyan produced in Guangdong Gao Yao County. Good inkstone. General calligraphy and painting to choose from all over the production of inkstone can be, choose the inkstone mainly choose its stone texture is delicate, moist, easy to send ink, do not absorb water. Ink stone should be cleaned and dried in time after use, keep clean, avoid exposure to the sun, fire baked.

Pigment

China's painting development to the Tang Dynasty, to the heavy color as the mainstream, since the Song Dynasty ink painting prevalent, in the literati standard elegant trend, the use of color has gradually declined tendency; However, the practitioners should be aware of the traditional painting pigments, for the development of multi-faceted, or with the ink for a better combination.

Traditional pigments for Chinese painting can be divided into mineral pigments, vegetable pigments, metallic pigments, animal pigments and artificial pigments according to their raw materials

Mineral pigments are ground from ores, with heavy color and strong coverage, and the commonly used ones are:

(1) Stone green: usually in powder form, it must be mixed with glue when used, The first green is the coarsest and the greenest, and then it is gradually thinning and fading.

(2) stone green: performance and use of roughly the same as the stone green, stone green is also divided into head green, two green, three green, four green and so on, head green particles are coarse, it is difficult to dye evenly, should be dyed a few times before good.

(3) Zhu Jing: Zhu Jing, also known as Tatsumi Jing with bright colors into the better vermilion, there are also made into ink, Zhu Jing is not suitable for mixing stone green, stone green use.

(d) Zhu fat: (Zhu standard) is Zhu Jing research fine, blended into the clear glue, floating in the upper part of the orange color.

(5) Ochre: Also known as shiju, it is produced from hematite and is light brown in color. Nowadays, ochre is mostly refined into a water-soluble gelatinous mass that is not covered.

(6) White Powder: It can be divided into lead powder, clam powder, chalk and so on. Clam powder is processed and refined from the shells of clams in the sea, and it is easy to "return to the lead" and turn black over a long period of time, and it can be returned to white after being lightly washed with peroxide; as for the chalk (white powder), it was commonly used in ancient murals, and it also did not change its color over a long period of time.

Commonly used plant pigments include:

(7) Flowering green: the leaves of Polygonum tinctorium or big blue are used to make blue starch, and then the green pigment is refined, which is widely used, and it can be adjusted to turn vine yellow into grass-green or soft green.

(8) Garcinia Cambogia: The sea vine tree in the tropical forest in the south, from which holes are cut in the bark, a gelatinous yellow liquid flows out, which is taken in a bamboo tube and can be used when it dries out, but Garcinia Cambogia is poisonous and cannot be imported.

(IX) rouge (fat): dark red pigment made of red and blue flowers, cress, purple stalks of three plants, but rouge for painting, the phenomenon of fading for a long time, and nowadays more to replace the Western red.

Other tools

Besides the above mentioned brushes, ink, inkstones, paper, silk, and pigments, there are some other related tools to be prepared:

(1) Color mixing (color storage) tools: white porcelain products are better, several small plates should be prepared for mixing colors or ink, and it is ideal to use plum blossom plates and layers of plates for removing colors, and the different pigments should be stored separately.

(2) Water basin: It is used for washing brushes or supplying water, and it is better to be made of white porcelain.

(3) thin blanket: lined on the table, can prevent the ink penetration will be stained paintings, laying paper, the picture is not easy to be rubbed by the pen will be damaged paper.

(4) glue and alum: on the stone green, stone green, cinnabar and other heavy color to prevent the color off, the available glue alum water cover, alum has a powder and block, glue is bottled liquid deer glue and strips or blocks of cattle glue, fish glue, deer glue, etc., it is best to have a set of cups, alcohol lamps, in order to melt the glue to mix the water.

(5) milk bowl: when the powdered pigment particles are too coarse, it is necessary to use the milk bowl to grind them and then place them in a beaker \flying bleach. In addition, a pen holder for hanging the brush, a paperweight for pressing the paper, a cutter for cutting the paper, charcoal strips for starting the draft, absorbent cotton waste cloth (or waste paper), as well as sealing clay and seals for inscriptions can all be prepared as appropriate.

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