If it is pastel-colored fine brushwork, only plant-colored pigments, ocher and zinc white should be used instead of mineral pigments. Commonly used plant pigments are: cyanine, garcinia, rouge, titanium blue, scarlet, and magenta (eosin). If it is heavy-color fine brushwork, there are no restrictions. As long as it is traditional Chinese painting paint, any color can be used. Of course, many modern painters are also experimenting with watercolors and gouache pigments, but it is best to use those colors with caution. If you are not sure, use less. Even if you use them, they must be of good quality. Otherwise, it will be troublesome if the color fades when mounted. Paper used for gongbi painting
Gongbi painting uses cooked rice paper or cooked silk, which is made by brushing raw rice paper or raw silk with a certain proportion of glue alum water. Its performance is impermeable to water. There are currently many varieties of cooked rice paper, such as clear water calligraphy and painting paper, ice and snow paper, calligraphy and painting paper, cicada wing paper, mica paper, etc. The cooked rice paper above can be either thin or thick, and the alum water can be thick or light. Generally speaking, thin ones are suitable for painting light colors, and thick ones are suitable for painting heavy colors. Cicada wings are the thinnest, while ice and snow are the thickest. There are also gold-sprinkled paper and various dyed papers that can be used to draw gongbi silk into pure silk products, which are divided into round silk and flat silk. Round silk silk, also known as "original silk silk", is commonly used in ancient paintings. Nowadays, flat silk is commonly used. After the silk is woven, it is beaten to make the silk flat, so as to reduce the gaps between the silk and make it less likely to leak alum after the silk is brushed with alum water. This kind of silk comes in white and distressed colors.
Ink used in gongbi painting
Ink has a unique status in Chinese painting. There are two types of ink: solid ink and liquid ink. The traditional ink used in Chinese painting is solid ink. Due to the different raw materials used, it is divided into three types: oil smoke ink, lacquer smoke ink and pine smoke ink. Oil fume ink is made by burning tung oil and other oils into smoke. Its black color is warm and is used for painting, and it blends well with other transparent colors. Pine smoke ink - made from the smoke of burned pine branches. Its black color is cooler and is mostly used in calligraphy. Lacquer smoke ink - made from burning traditional lacquer, its black color is smooth and shiny, and it is also suitable for painting. When choosing, it is better to have a delicate texture, moist color and blue-purple color. The grades of ink are divided into "ding, shang, tribute and selection". Liquid ink maintains the characteristics of oil smoke ink and is now very popular due to its ease of use, but it is better used for freehand paintings. Among them, "Tianjin Ink for Calligraphy and Painting" and Beijing's "Yidege Ink" are the best.
Pigments used in meticulous painting
The pigments used in Chinese painting include plant pigments (water color), natural mineral pigments (stone color), and chemically synthesized pigments. Plant pigments include cyanine, rouge, garcinia, etc. Mineral pigments include ocher, cinnabar, cinnabar, azurite, stone green, stone yellow, etc. Most Chinese painting pigments packaged in zinc tubes are chemically synthesized pigments. These are collectively called Chinese painting pigments.
Water color (plant pigment) is a transparent color that can be mixed with each other. It has no covering power, is unstable in color quality, and fades easily. Stone color (mineral pigment) is an opaque color that cannot be used in harmony with each other. It has strong covering power, stable color quality, and is not easy to fade. Stone color and water color cannot be used in harmony with each other.
Pen used in Gongbi painting
(1) Outline pen
Center is often used to draw thin and even lines in Gongbi painting. Generally, thin and pointed pens such as wolf hair are used. Commonly used pens include clothing pattern pen, leaf tendon pen, big red hair, small red hair, crab claw, langgui, zigui and so on.
(2) Dyeing pens
Commonly used dyeing pens include: large white cloud, medium white cloud, small white cloud and other soft brushes. Pure wool pens are too soft and generally not easy to use. Baiyun pens are better because their outer layer is wool and the middle part is hard and stiff hair, so they can contain moisture and are elastic.
(3) Board brushes
Gongbi paintings often need to apply base color, or do large-area flat painting and rendering, so it is necessary to prepare wool board brushes or row brushes of various widths .
But you don’t need to pursue the quality of materials now. Cooked rice paper and brushes need different sizes. The ones used for drawing lines need fine tip and slightly harder hair, such as wolf hair. The pens used for blending require If the hair is soft, you can usually use a white cloud pen. For pigments, buy ready-made Chinese painting paint boxes and use Yidege's ink.
If you are a beginner, just use these~
I don’t know if you have the foundation of painting~
You must learn line drawing before painting Gongbi painting~ This is the shape of Gongbi painting, you can first Copy the white drawing spectrum ~ and then buy some painting spectrum with step diagrams, because gongbi painting is a very delicate type of painting. There are many ways to use brushes, including rendering mechanism effects, etc. You can choose to buy a teaching CD ~However, according to my own learning experience, it is better to find a teacher to teach me. Self-study is quite difficult~ Many methods of self-study are difficult to master