The biggest difference between Chinese painting and ordinary watercolor gouache painting is that "Chinese painting" is Chinese painting, while "watercolor and gouache" is western painting.
gouache is mixed with water, and there is a small amount of oil in the pigment to keep it dry. Color with water when painting. There are exclusive gouache paper. Also has its own special pen. Pen points sheep hair, wolf hair, doubled both brush, etc. The wolf is hard and the sheep is soft, depending on personal preference. The picture is easy to modify and has strong coverage. However, repeated revision is not recommended, and the picture is easy to get dirty. When the picture is dry, it will be grayer than when you adjust it. This is because the water evaporates.
Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China. It is painted on silk or paper with a brush dipped in water, ink and color. Tools and materials include brush, ink, pigment of traditional Chinese painting, rice paper, silk, etc. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc., and techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork.
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Types of Chinese painting:
1. Figure painting.
In order to draw a good figure painting, we must not only inherit the tradition, but also understand and study the basic shape, proportion, anatomical structure and the changing law of human movement, so as to accurately shape and express the shape and spirit of the characters. There are several ways to express characters, each with its own strong points, such as: line drawing, cross-filling, splashing ink and cross-dyeing.
2. Landscape painting.
The composition of landscape painting includes: mountains, water, rocks, trees, houses, terraces, boats and cars, bridges, wind, rain, overcast and sunny, snow, sun, clouds, fog, and climate characteristics in spring, summer, autumn and winter.
3. Ink painting.
refers to paintings made by pure ink and wash. There are three basic elements: simplicity, symbolism and naturalness
4. Academy painting.
In order to meet the needs of the imperial court, this kind of works mainly focus on flowers and birds, landscapes, court life and religious content, and pay attention to the statutes, the combination of form and spirit, and the style is gorgeous and delicate. Because the times are different from painters' expertise, their painting styles are different and have their own characteristics
5. Meticulous painting.
meticulous painting must be painted on silk or rice paper processed by alum
6. Literati painting.
refers to the paintings made by Chinese scholars and literati in China feudal society. Different from the paintings of folk painters and professional painters in the Palace Painting Academy, Su Shi put forward the "scholar's painting" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Dong Qichang praised the "scholar's painting" in the Ming Dynasty, with Wang Wei as its founder and Wang Wei as the ancestor of the Southern Sect.
7. Flower and bird painting.
Flower-and-bird painting can be roughly divided into two categories: meticulous flower-and-bird painting; Freehand brushwork of flowers and birds. Insects can also be divided into work and writing. The methods of expression are: line drawing (also known as double hook), sketching, filling, boneless, splashing ink and so on. Like mountains and rivers, he has a long history. The learning steps of flower-and-bird painting are nothing more than copying, sketching and creating. The themes are: bamboo, orchid, plum, chrysanthemum, peony, lotus, etc. Birds are: chicken, goose, duck, crane, cuckoo, kingfisher, magpie and eagle; Insects include parrots, butterflies, phoenixes, dragonflies and cicadas, and miscellaneous insects include slugs, crickets, ants, snails and spiders.
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