Ink and Brush Painting: Line Drawings of a Hundred Flowers. Spring and Summer Edition

Author: Wang Yonggang
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: We know that Chinese painting is divided into meticulous and freehand styles in terms of expression. Their techniques vary, and so do their aesthetic effects. Compared to meticulous painting, which is rigorous, delicate, colorful, meticulous, and relatively realistic, freehand painting is concise, summarized, unrestrained, and does not adhere to form but seeks spiritual essence, being relatively abstract. Meticulous floral painting is a type of Chinese painting that uses flowers as its subject. Since ancient times, people have developed a deep appreciation for the products of the beautiful natural world—flowers. Love of beauty is human nature, and fresh flowers are symbols of beauty. For a long time, their vibrant colors and graceful forms have deeply attracted people's attention. Meticulous floral paintings the images of flowers that people love in works, decorating their living environments, enriching and enhancing everyone's spiritual life, cultivating people's temperament in a subtle way, and promoting the progress of human spiritual civilization. Before coloring, a meticulous painting should be a relatively perfect ink drawing. Ink drawing is a fundamental skill for painting meticulous works. Every enthusiast of meticulous painting practices ink drawing as a basic skill, and every painter also brings ink drawing to its utmost. Ink floral painting primarily depicts flowers, shrubs, and fragrant grasses. Drawing every line well is the key to painting good ink floral works. Flowers are divided into two categories: aquatic and terrestrial. Terrestrial flowers are generally divided into three types: 1. Herbs: refer to grasses that are mostly non-woody, low, and tender. Herbs are further divided into: 1-year and 2-year seed plants, such as morning glories and rosemallows; perennial rootstock plants, such as orchids, narcissus, and lilies, which all have developed bulbs or fleshy roots, and their rootstocks can also be painted. 2. Woody plants: refer to perennial trees with thick, solid, and sturdy stems and branches. Those with distinct trunks and tall, upright crowns are called tall trees, such as magnolias, kapok, and pines. 3. Vines: have slender, flexible, and winding main stems that cannot stand upright. They are further divided into: - Climbing stems: plants that grow by curling and wrapping their stems around themselves or other objects, such as wisteria and morning glories. - Climbing stems: plants that grow by using rootlets outside the stem nodes to climb on supporting structures, such as grapes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and clematis. Common aquatic flowers are mostly herbs, such as lotuses, water hyacinths, and duckweed.