Painting fish should be able to show the appearance of swimming in the water, if you draw water, the fish will lose its physical nature.
When painting, you don't have to dye water and have the mood in the water, so you can be considered to have a subtle experience.
The ancients, such as Yuan Yi of the Five Dynasties, Liu Yu and Fan An of the Song Dynasty, were famous for painting fish, but they were all gong pens. Of course, the art is profound and unspeakably profound.
The method of painting fish by the Bada Shanren can be fully expressed with a very simple composition and brush, and there is really a wonderful point of assimilation with fish.
The achievements of mountain people's art must be through a lot of time of observation and speculation, in order to go from complex to simple, but there is no room for expression. Look at the mouth, eyes, cheeks, fins, ridges, wings, tails, and abdomen he painted, which is not considerate, and the types of fish are different, and the mountain people paint all the tricks.
Frost repellent swimming fish chart
We should always take him as a teacher, but it is not to copy him, but to learn his intentions, and if we draw gourds in the same way, we will be slaves to painting.
Painting fish sometimes has to be paired with rocks, flowers and grass to increase the beauty and twists of the picture, always based on simplicity, and it is not appropriate to set colors, and the ink is light and elegant.
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《Fish stone diagram》 Qing · Zhu Yun
Source: Culture on the Cloud