Calligraphy Tiger Technique: Twenty-first Century Master Technique Series

Author: Li Zhengzheng
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: In China, fables, idioms, or proverbs about tigers are widely circulated and can be found everywhere. For example, describing a treacherous place as a "tiger's den and dragon's pool," undertaking a perilous mission as "pulling a horse out of a tiger's mouth," surviving a sudden incident by sheer luck as "a narrow escape from a tiger's mouth," and comparing a parent's love for their child to "a tiger not eating its cub." Describing someone as "tiger-like in head and brain" implies being sturdy and robust, while describing someone as "tiger-back and bear-shouldered" suggests they are tall, strong, and heroic. Describing someone as "full of vitality and energy" is likened to "a living dragon and a jumping tiger" or "a dragon soaring and a tiger leaping." This book includes:
Techniques for depicting tigers with freehand white ink: Lines are the main means of shaping in Chinese painting. Freehand white ink is the standard style of line shaping in Chinese painting. It can be further divided into meticulous freehand white ink and expressive freehand white ink;
Techniques for depicting tigers with ink and wash;
Techniques for depicting tigers with colored ink: The color in Chinese painting differs from the nature of brush and ink. It is not a prescribed symbol but, like shaping, has both subjective and objective attributes;
Techniques for depicting tigers with light color: Light color is a lighter application of ink and wash;
Techniques for depicting tigers with color;
Techniques for depicting tigers with a combination of meticulous and expressive styles, as well as their personified representations.