1, pay attention to calligraphy practice.
Beginners learning Chinese painting should first pay attention to the "homology of painting and calligraphy". China's painting and calligraphy are closely related. Zhang Yanyuan, a painter and painting theorist in the Tang Dynasty, said that painting and calligraphy are integrated, but inseparable ... meaningless, so there are books; There is no way to see its shape, so there is a picture.
Books and paintings are both pen and ink art, and their emergence and development complement each other. Therefore, it is best to practice calligraphy while learning Chinese painting. There are many similarities in points, lines and ink use in book countries, so a certain calligraphy foundation is of great help to learning Chinese painting.
But painting and calligraphy are independent art forms after all. Learning calligraphy is of great help to learning Chinese painting, but it is fundamental for beginners to learn Chinese painting. Practicing calligraphy is to learn Chinese painting better, which can't be forgotten at first.
2. Pay attention to basic exercises.
The foundation is very important, and beginners should pay attention to basic exercises when learning Chinese painting. Line is a basis for learning Chinese painting, and the basic brushwork of Chinese painting is line modeling. It is often said in painting theory that "building bones with lines" means using lines to express all aspects of modeling factors such as expression, modeling, texture and momentum of objects with changes in the length, thickness, turning point, frustration and weight of lines.
The application of ink color in Chinese painting is one of the foundations of learning Chinese painting. Ink is divided into five colors: dry, wet, thick, light and burnt. In addition, there is "white". The use of blank space is also the unique artistic beauty of Chinese painting.
3. Pay attention to specialization.
There are many themes in Chinese painting, such as landscape figures, flowers, birds, fish and insects, natural phenomena and so on. Techniques are divided into strokes, freehand brushwork and simultaneous writing. For beginners, every subject and every skill is like a mountain. Not to mention the power of life, it is impossible to climb the peak in three, five or even ten or eight years.
Therefore, beginners should pay attention to specialization when learning Chinese painting. It takes three to five years to learn a Chinese painting category first, and then engage in other categories of work, so as to complete their own knowledge and promote the promotion of specialization.