The "Mustard Garden Painting Biography" summarizes the key to painting fish as follows: "Painting fish must be lively, and its swimming image must be obtained." Seeing the shadow is like a shock, and the sound is idle. Between the floating and sinking algae, the clear flow is rippling. Yo-Yo is envious and agrees with people. If you don't have a god, you will only look at it in vain. Although written in the stream, it is not different from the anvil on the top. This exposition highlights the expressive characteristics of chinese painting imagery, writing about God in shape, not only to get the image of things, but also to reach the feelings of things.
Emphasize that painting fish should reflect the vivid image of fish in the water, and express the freedom of the spirit and the ease of leisure with the help of painting fish. There is no shortage of excellent examples of this in ancient works that represent fish, such as Zhou Dongqing's "Fish Music Diagram" at the end of the Song Dynasty and Miao Fu's "Fish Algae Diagram" in the Ming Dynasty. In the aquatic water, the fish swim freely and gracefully, gathering or scattering, floating or sinking, light and agile. The blue water ripples, the algae sway, and the joy of fish and water is extreme. The painter uses the method of ink to present the invisible water with a flowing rhythm, showing full vitality and infinite freedom, and the excellent swimming of the fish and the painter's feelings are fully present.
Step 1: Outline the basic structure of the goldfish with an ochre color, focusing on the dynamic changes in the tail.
Step 2: Lighten the goldfish's eyes, head, gills and body to alter them.
Step 3: Light ink renders the texture structure of the tail fin, dorsal fin, pectoral fin and abdominal fin, dyed with a yin and a yang, and the root to the tip is from real to virtual.
Step 4: Repeat the second and third steps, and deepen layer by layer until you are satisfied.
Step 5: The dorsal fin, pectoral fin, ventral fin and caudal fin are rendered as a whole with light ink at the root, and the head is covered with dyeing.
Step 6: Paint the mouth of the fish, the texture of the eyes, the scales of the fish, and render the tips of the fins and tails.
Step 7: The eye area is dyed with light flower blue into a ring, and then dyed garcinia yellow, thick ink dot eyes, fish scales are filled, and the lateral line is drawn.
Step 8: Finally, dye the whole body with a light ochre yellow cover and draw the algae.