Green Mountains and Clear Waters Drawing Template

Author: Zhou Yi
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Blue and Green landscape painting is a genre of landscape painting with strong blue and green colors. It originated in the Six Dynasties and developed in early Tang. The maturity of blue and green landscape painting techniques, represented by the father and son Li Sixin and Li Zhaodao, had a profound influence on later generations. After the rise of literati painting in the Song Dynasty, ink and wash landscape painting became mainstream, but the development of blue and green landscape painting never ceased. Today, blue and green landscape painting can be said to have complete techniques and diverse forms, generally including: large blue and green painting method, small blue and green painting method, boneless blue and green painting method, heavy color painting method, gold and green method, splashing color method. They share common characteristics while each has its own differences. Summarized, the following features can be identified:
1. "Assigning colors according to categories" based on the intrinsic colors of objects for coloring.
2. "Depicting colors with colors" by leveraging the inherent laws of color and properly handling the relationship with ink and wash.
3. Based on the traditional expressive imagery of landscape painting, the coloring of blue and green landscape painting tends to be subjective in color.
4. Emphasizes the fundamental skills of traditional line drawing and the traditional combination of lines.
5. Possesses rich and diverse coloring techniques.
6. The ancients spoke of "three mordant and nine dyeing," meaning multiple layers of repeated coloring, slow and steady rather than rushed, to achieve the artistic effects of "clear, thick, and lustrous" colors.