Portrait in watercolor.2

Author: Jianzhong Li (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: In the history of painting, it is difficult to find the independent development of tempera painting. At large-scale art exhibitions, it is not easy to attract audiences to stop and watch. Therefore, painters rarely establish their reputation through tempera painting. However, among today's well-known middle-aged and young artists, whether they specialize in traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, or other mediums, they all begin to understand color painting through tempera painting and achieve a certain level of proficiency in it. As a painting medium, tempera painting originated from the West. In terms of creative ideas and techniques, it follows Western culture and tradition, and as a result, it is often used as a supplementary tool for learning and creating oil painting, placing it in a subordinate position. Due to its wide range of expressive capabilities in materials and its rigorous realistic representation, tempera painting is easy for beginners to understand and master color language, techniques, and the basic ability to shape with color. Theoretically, the requirements for life drawing in tempera figure painting and oil painting figure painting are essentially the same, with diverse expressive forms. Techniques and methods from oil painting can be (borrowed), with layers of coverage to achieve a certain sense of thickness; alternatively, the language and modeling techniques of watercolor painting can be employed, leveraging the power of nature, to achieve a quick result, showcasing the natural flow of water and the thin transparency created by the blending of different colors.