The footsteps pause, the art does not stop, and you can use the paintbrush to draw the beautiful scenery at home. The Shanghai Wenlian Public Account launched the Maritime Famous Artists Cloud Classroom, asking the famous artists of maritime calligraphy and painting to teach you to collect the flowers and trees of the four hours into the drawing paper.
Let's first pay attention to the activities launched by the "Famous Artists Demonstration" column - in 2018, Mr. Chen Jialing demonstrated the painting of lotus flowers.
Mr. Chen Jialing demonstrated and explained at the same time
In the eyes of Chen Jialing, a famous calligrapher and painter on the sea, the lotus flowers come out of the mud without staining, beautiful, elegant and noble, which is a long and eternal spiritual complex that lingers in the hearts of literati and inkers, and it is also his favorite creative theme. Mr. Chen Jialing's lotus flowers are "like cone painting sand", the lotus leaves are rendered in light ink, showing a silver gray, and the stems and branches have ink spots and omissions, which is very breathable. With his profound traditional skills, he expressed the modernity of new era painting, and his works enjoyed a high reputation internationally.
When Mr. Chen Jialing demonstrated painting lotus flowers, he first talked about the importance of sketching. He said that for painters, sketching is very important, painters face nature, to reflect nature, and then organize processing, creation, sketching is the foundation.
Start by painting the leaves of the lotus flower
Mr. Chen Jialing said that the main purpose of painting lotus flowers is to study the structure and growth law of lotus flowers, reflecting the true growth state of lotus flowers. From the artist's point of view, painting lotus flowers is the basic skill of practicing hands and brains, and in the process of sketching, the hands and brains correspond, connect and express to each other, so it is too important.
Mr. Chen Jialing said that when he was studying in college, the teacher taught us not to leave our hands, not to leave our mouths, and to write a book that cannot be separated from our hands.
Use the dried brush to draw the dots of the lotus canopy, and then dot the color
Then draw the lotus flowers and the leaves underneath
So how do you know sketching? Mr. Chen Jialing said that the "life" of sketching is the life of all things in the world, and we must write about the life state of all things. The so-called "one flower and one world", looking at flowers, is actually a world, it is all-encompassing, strange, full of vitality, change and creativity.
Sketching is not only a skill, but also a way of thinking, how to treat nature and how to treat art.
Draw the stem of the lotus flower with thick lines
Mr. Chen Jialing said that in the history of Chinese painting, the lotus flower is an eternal theme. From the Tang Dynasty Gongbi lotus flower, all the way to the Ming and Qing Dynasties freehand lotus flowers, to the modern Zhang Daqian, Pan Tianshou and other people, everyone likes to paint lotus flowers.
Why is the lotus flower an eternal theme? Because from the perspective of painting elements, painting is the skillful, orderly and creative combination of points, lines and surfaces. The points, lines and surfaces of the lotus flower are very exaggerated, its rods, lines are very long, its lotus canopy, points are very rich, its leaves, the surface is very large, therefore, you can give full play to the artist's galloping in the point, line and surface techniques.
Outline other flowers and outline multiple flexible stem lines with thin lines
Mr. Chen Jialing said that when we paint a lotus flower, we must be close to it, have a dialogue, and even depict it with reverence, and it will give you inspiration and bring you creativity.
Mr. Chen Jialing's creation pays great attention to the infiltration effect of ink rhyme. He said: Ink changes endlessly on rice paper, which is an important contribution of the Chinese nation to the world. Only Chinese rice paper, ink painting will be infiltrated, and the law of infiltration is difficult to master, it is not good, it does not listen to your words, you need to have agile ideas and skills to master it. Therefore, it is necessary to go through many failures and many times of training in order to grasp the fun of ink on rice paper that is dry, wet, thick and varies endlessly.
The edges of the flower lines add color and light ink to accentuate the three-dimensional feel
Mr. Chen Jialing, for example, rice paper is like a BMW, you are not skilled, it will bully you, you ride on its back will fall down. Rice paper is flexible and sensitive, you are painting, in fact, it is also painting, it does not convince you, so you share the fate and breathe with it, this is the characteristics of Chinese rice paper, so it is difficult to master freehand painting.
Then carry out partial careful cleaning, you can write the inscription to finish the work
Sometimes foreigners don't understand this, they think that your Chinese painting is too convenient, 5 minutes and 10 minutes a painting can be drawn. But as long as he draws it himself, he knows the difficulty, it is really "one minute on stage, ten years off stage"!
Mr. Chen Jialing concluded that we must go through a long period of training to master the realm of the unity of heaven and man in rice paper and ink painting, which is a piece of land that rice paper and ink give to painters.