Landscape Painting: Textbook for Landscape Architecture Majors in Higher Vocational and Technical Colleges in the 21st Century

Author: Ma Yonglong
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This textbook is divided into four main parts: Overview, Training in Pictorial Modeling Ability, Modeling Principles of Flower Arrangement and Bonsai, and Appreciation. The Overview introduces the classification and history of fine arts, selecting representative works from various periods in ancient and modern China and abroad, enabling students to gain a comparative and systematic understanding of. Chapter 2 covers form structure, form proportion, painting perspective, and painting composition, introducing basic painting knowledge. Chapter 3 focuses on freehand sketching in landscape design, including methods for drawing trees, rocks, water, and reflections, as well as freehand sketches of garden ornaments and landscapes. Through freehand copying, students can improve their painting and modeling skills, which can also serve as a reference and inspiration for future landscape design drafting. Chapter 4 discusses patterns and calligraphy, covering the types of patterns, their modeling, organizational forms, creative processes, production methods, and applications of patterns in landscape design, as well as the basic rules of calligraphy. Chapter 5 covers sketching, including geometric form sketching, still-life sketching, landscape sketching, and quick sketches. Chapter 6 introduces basic color knowledge and color sketching, including still-life watercolor sketching, still-life acrylic painting, landscape watercolor sketching, landscape acrylic painting, and sketching with light colors. Chapter 7 provides foundational knowledge on the modeling principles of flower arrangement and bonsai, which is essential common knowledge for a landscape worker. Chapter 8 focuses on appreciation, divided into calligraphy, Chinese painting, and oil painting sections. Through the evolution of calligraphy, the methods and steps of Chinese painting (gongbi flower-and-bird paintings, xieyi flower-and-bird paintings, and shanshui paintings), as well as famous works of oil landscape paintings and oil still-life paintings, students can enhance their appreciation level and aesthetic cultivation.