Exploring The Ink In The Creation Of Ink Paintings

Chinese Monochrome Painting, a way of painting only by Chinese ink, is a drawinglanguage by its pictures. The drawing brush and the Chinese ink are the carrier of the Chinesepainting. Nearly all paintings show their contents and the shape of the objects only byChinese ink and the drawing brush. They are different from Chinese historical paintings.Nowadays, it is necessary for Chinese painters to refer to the western realistic paintingmethod when they want to express human beings’ thought and feeling. Therefore,accuracy isthe basic requirement. Painting accuracy is about the state,the image and the meaning of thepainting.Freehand brush painting is the key point in Chinese painting.The characteristics ofits painting method is outstanding, especially in its briefness,its expression in writtenlanguage, its emotion and its indication. Harmony is the most important requirement. Theorder of expression,the consistency and all the painter wants to say are written in one picture.This article is about the combination the freehand brush works with realistic works bystudying the structure laws of different image, amount and level in the same painting. It has apurpose of improving the more combination of freehand brush painting and western realisticpainting. It aims at the way of expressing the painting figure in shape, mind and state withchangeable amount of Chinese ink. And the painter can create figure painting works both in arealistic and fantastic way.