The fundamental reasons for calligraphy ink bleeding are:
First, due to the wrong choice of paper,
Second, lack of writing ability and poor handling of paper, pen and ink. Inadequate control ability.
3. The ink contains too much water.
Methods to prevent ink bleeding:
1. Choose brand ink. Generally, low-quality ink contains a lot of water (so it is cheap), and it easily deteriorates and smells, and ink will also bleed when writing. .
2. When adjusting the ink before writing, add a small amount of water each time, and keep writing on the rice paper with a brush to test the ink until the concentration is suitable. (Note: Once the ink has been mixed with water, do not pour it back into the original ink bottle to prevent the entire bottle of ink from deteriorating!)
3. You don’t need to mix the ink for daily practice. Prepare a dish of water and a dish of ink. Disk ink, so the pen can be dipped in water first and then ink, and the concentration can be adjusted at any time.
4. Choosing appropriate rice paper with good quality can get twice the result with half the effort in learning calligraphy.
5. Improve writing skills and increase the ability to control paper, pen and ink.
Note: Once the ink has been mixed with water, do not pour it back into the original ink bottle to prevent the entire bottle of ink from deteriorating!
Extended information:
1. Choose different rice papers according to different calligraphy fonts.
1. Regular script. Because the fonts in small regular script are small, stipple writing is therefore much smaller. To express accurately, it is more appropriate to choose cooked propaganda. Medium and large regular scripts can be made of half-cooked paper.
2. Running script. The writing speed of running script is faster and the filaments are rich. You can choose half-cooked or raw-Xuan.
3. Seal script. When writing seal script, you can choose half-cooked ink with a weak bleeding effect to keep the ink from bleeding. As the level gets higher, use Shengxuan again to achieve more changes.
4. Official script. The paper used for official script and seal script is consistent.
5. Cursive writing. Beginners to cursive writing are best to use half-cooked rice paper. If you have a certain grasp of the basic writing of calligraphy, the changes in the lines in your pen are relatively rich, and you can use Shengxuan with obvious blurring effect.
Some small-character cursive scripts, such as Sun Guoting's "Shupu" and Huaisu's "Thousand-Character Essay", require fine stipples. It is best to write on half-cooked paper, so as not to end up with a ball of ink. .
2. How to select paper:
1. Observe. To the naked eye, good paper is not necessarily particularly white. Leather paper is white, but it is not reflective, not dazzling, and has a uniform texture. There should be no ridges, sand grains, holes, or other attachments on the surface of the paper.
2. Feeling. When touched by hand, it feels astringent, even in thickness, smooth, soft and delicate.
3. Shake. Pick up the paper with your hands and shake it gently. It is better if the sound is not brittle and the paper is not beautiful. If the paper makes a crisp sound when shaken, and the paper becomes stiff and hard, this is poor paper.
4. Try. When ink is drawn on paper, the paper will penetrate quickly, spread evenly, and the outer edge of the ink halo will not be jagged. Wait until the ink is completely absorbed into the paper, and then draw it a second time. The effect will be clear-cut, with a thin white mark between the two ink haloes.