In traditional Chinese painting, color is one of the most important elements, which can express the emotion and artistic conception of the work. Learning color recognition and matching skills is a very important part of learning Chinese painting.
Five Basic Colors of Traditional Chinese Painting
Learning Chinese painting requires five colors: ochre, rattan yellow, flower green, rouge and dark green.
The pigment of traditional Chinese painting has two properties, which will produce different effects when used. One is plant based, such as Huaqing, Tenghuang, rouge, peony red, etc. The performance is transparent and fine, but will fade over time; The other is mineral, such as cinnabar, cinnabar bleach, first green to three green, first green to three green, ochre, stone yellow, white powder, etc. The performance is opaque, has coverage, and does not fade over time.
Several colors commonly used in traditional Chinese painting include: flower green, vine yellow, ochre, red fat, rouge, stone green, stone green, white powder, etc. According to the nature of raw materials, traditional Chinese painting pigments are mainly divided into plant pigments, mineral pigments, animal pigments, chemical pigments, etc. Traditional Chinese painting pays more attention to the effect of ink and wash, and generally uses less color. There is a requirement that "color does not hinder ink, and ink does not hinder color".
Color Classification of Traditional Chinese Painting
1. Stone color (opaque color): stone color is mineral color. In addition to being used in painting, stone color is also used in murals, architectural painting and other places. In ancient China, painters had a very systematic and complete method of using stone color. However, with the gradual decline of the understanding of meticulous painting by painters in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the traditional method of making stone color was almost lost.
Stone color mainly includes: cinnabar, cinnabar, stone green, realgar, orpiment, stone yellow, black stone grease, mica powder, clam powder, ochre, earth yellow, coral powder and other gem pigments, as well as newly developed high-temperature crystalline pigments.
It should be noted that the classification of stone green and stone green is generally detailed: first green, second green, third green, fourth green and other first green are the heaviest, fourth green is the lightest, and stone green is the same.
2. Water color (transparent color): water color is mainly composed of some natural plants, together with a small amount of animal materials and mineral fine powder pigments. Stone color and water color are generally used together in traditional Chinese painting, which has achieved a rich effect of alternating shades and virtual reality. Water color mainly includes: vermilion, rouge, western red, gamboge, ochre, cyan, water color and acrylic color.
Tips for color matching of traditional Chinese painting
1. Phthalocyanine+Litho+Ink=navy blue (background)
2. Garlic yellow (half)+white (half)=pink yellow (dotted flower core)
3. Garcinia (80%)+vermilion (5%)+Huaqing (15%)=juicy green (reverse leaf, tender leaf, receptacle)
4. Huaqing+ink=ink blue
5. Phthalocyanine blue+eosin=purple
6. Phthalocyanine blue (60%)+gamboge (40%)=emerald green (leaf color is drawn in the south)
7. Phthalocyanine blue (half)+gamboge (half)=grass green (regular)
8. Phthalocyanine blue (more)+gamboge (less)+vermilion (more)=grass green (more blue)
9. Grass green+rouge (a little)=old green
10. White+eosin (less)=pink
11. Phthalocyanine blue+ink (less)=Huaqing
12. Eosin+ink (less)=rouge
13. Grass green+emerald=green
14. Grass green+ink (less)=dark green
15. Huaqing (70%)+gamboge=old green
16. Juice green+gamboge (less)=bud green
17. Phthalocyanine blue (less)+gamboge=bud green
18. Eosin (less)+white=pink
19. Phthalocyanine+gamboge+jadeite (less)=emerald green
20. Rouge+vermilion mark=ink (less)=bean paste color
21. Ink+eosin=ink red
22. Orange+eosin (less)=orange
23. Garcinia+vermilion=orange
24. Garcinia+vermilion+ink=beige
25. Garcinia+anthocyanin (less)+ochre=bud yellow
26. Vine yellow+vermilion+ink+three green=sandalwood
27. vermilion+bright red (less)=vermilion
28. Eosin+ink (less)+cyanine (less)=dark red
29. Ochre+gamboge+three green (less)=ochre yellow
30. ocher+grass green=ocher green
31. Ink+gamboge+vermilion+three green (dots)=khaki
32. vermilion+ink+eosin (less)=red ochre
33. Red ochre+gamboge (less)=bronze
34. Three green+ink (less)=gray green
35. White+light ink=gray (Pulsatilla barb)
36. Garcinia+ochre (less)=ochre (fine bamboo branches)
37. Garcinia+vermilion (less)=medium yellow (bamboo pole)
38. Phthalocyanine+gamboge+three green (less)=emerald green (bamboo leaves)
39. Ochre+gamboge+eosin (less)=beige
40. Zhu Biao+eosin (less)=orange
41. Zhu Biao+ink+stone green (less)=maroon
42. White+three green (less)=pink green
43. Juice green+gamboge (less)=bud green
44. Grass green+gamboge+vermilion (less)=juicy green
45. Garcinia (70%)+vermilion (20%)+three green (10%)=sandalwood
46. Garlic (70%)+vermilion (30%)=beige
47. Zhu Biao (60%)+Ink (40%)=Old Green
48. Stone green+white=three green -- the more white you add, the four green and five green become. Three green, four green and so on.
49. Rouge (30%)+vermilion (40%)+ink (10%)+gamboge (20%)=bronze
50. After the base color of the vermilion label is flat painted and dried (or after the base color such as eosin or rouge is separately dyed), the light eosin is covered to get vermilion -- draw vermilion flower heads.
51. Ink+phthalocyanine blue=ink cyan
Learn how to mix colors in traditional Chinese painting
1. Juicy green: according to the proportion of pigments, the most colorful is blue-green, and the most colorful is yellow green.
2. Ink cyan: floral cyan or phthalein cyan blue tone ink is an essential color for background color, which is better than using ink color alone for background color.
3. Brown: the color of red clam is black, and sometimes it turns red according to the proportion, which can separate the structure of white birds; Sometimes it is dark ochre. It is very effective to draw the texture of tree trunk or stone with ponding method. Because the ready-made ochre pigment particles are relatively thick and prone to sedimentation, it is generally not used in fine brushwork, so remember.
4. Purple: Huaqing or three green tone eosin or rouge, dark series of flowers are often used.
5. Goose yellow: vermilion fat adjusts rattan yellow, which is often used to dye yellow flowers.
6. Dark red: rouge is used to adjust eosin and a small amount of ink, which shows that dark red flowers are often used, and sometimes ink can not be adjusted.
7. Pink: Red, such as bright red, eosin, and peony red, are added with white, which is often used to dye the tip of red flowers to enhance the sense of volume from the surface.
8. Ochra: After being mixed with ink, vermilion is added with gamboge, which is often used to show the autumn scenery and leaves.
9. Vermilion: Twilight red, often used to paint red birds.
10. Green grey: white is mixed with black, and a little bit of flower blue is added. It is often used in the powder method to show the legs and feet of cranes.
11. Bean green: three green, a little gamboge, and a little phthalocyanine blue.
12. Turquoise: add black and red, then add gamboge, and finally add three greens.
