Talking About The Significance In The Contemporary Bird Painting Creation

Chinese flower-and-bird painting has a long history and has been lasted for a very long time. Nowadays, the ideas on art have changed a lot. It becomes extremely important for flower-and-bird painters to reconsider the significance of painting from nature, thereby refresh the flower-and-bird painting while keeping the Chinese characters as well. Drawing from life not only needs observe and research the rules of plants and reproduce them, but also respect the Chinese Painting aesthetic principles at the same time. Painting from nature could provide deeper understanding between ink and brush pen, and the composition too. The methods of drawing from nature are different from person to person in the history. Today, we divide it into two ways:paint from nature directly and indirectly. Actually, the process of drawing from life is a creative process, which includes the following steps:feel the subjects, choose suitable subjects, make composition, select skills and copy the subjects etc. The keys of painting from nature are to handle the relationship between object and subject, to grasp the relations among eyes, minds and hands. In a word, painting from nature plays an important role on reforming and refreshing the contemporary flower-and-bird painting.