How to master the shade of ink in calligraphy?

How to master the shade of ink in calligraphy?

Nowadays, the ink used by everyone is all existing cans, and when you buy it and pour it into the inkstone, you can use it immediately. In the past, everyone was grinding by themselves or little scholars before writing, and this kind of way can be grasped according to the application habits and the depth of their own. Naturally, some calligraphers who pay great attention to it nowadays also use this kind of ink grinding technique, which can be used to write dark handwriting, especially when writing some high-standard creations, this kind of method is used a lot.

However, can the canned ink method generally bought? Naturally, yes. Here, let's take canned ink as an example and talk about the way of mixing ink.

When the ancients were writing, because the size of the printed paper was too small, and many tablet writings could not reflect the significant transformation of light ink, therefore, from the perspective of modern people, the ancient people did not show more changes in light ink. In fact, these views are taken out of context. We can do an experiment and make the writings of our predecessors more than ten times larger, and we can see that this light ink is transforming, rather than being immutable, pure black.

In the writings of the ancients, the change of light ink is mainly the reason why the ink is dipped in the thick, light, dry, dry and wet areas, because the soft pen is just dipped in ink, the ink is more, and the words written will be thicker, and the light location is compared to the thick, the first word is just dipped in ink, the second and third will fade down, dry refers to the development of writing, the ink in the soft pen is getting lower and lower, the strokes of the word will be dry, and the dry is basically formed in the dry, at this time, because the soft pen is done, the ink is less, The strokes that are written down create a dry pen. These four levels are the specific ways in which light ink is mainly expressed.

In today's world, we have a lot of needs for writing, and the specific performance of light ink has also been enriched. Run, that is, the strokes of the word are very smooth, not as strong as the thick, not as thin as the light, in between. Rising, it is in the thick basically, and the water seeping around the strokes of the character surrounds the strokes of all the characters.

Coke is the actual effect of the burnt ink, it is similar to the role of the dry pen, it is in the light ink, but it is not the actual effect of the complete light ink, but the actual effect of the dry pen, the formation of each line is very thin, and very supportive and tendon force.

I think if you're going to write regular script, then the ink is generally thicker, you can dip it a few more, and if you're going to write cursive, then it's generally lighter, and you can take a few more inks.

When writing, you can grasp the intensity of the ink by adding water, so that you can better control the handwriting and control the strength of the pen.

I don't think it's too fast when grinding, and if there are bubbles, don't grind anymore at this time. Don't push too hard when writing.

Thick ink is the main one, because the contrast between thick ink and paper is large, and in the eyes of calligraphers, thick ink is the most spiritual, especially the creation of orthographic books. Such as seal script, official script, regular script, it seems that only with thick ink can show its strength and spirit, from the calligraphy works, there are indeed the vast majority of works written with thick ink.

Different book styles, the shade of ink used, for example, regular script is generally used to use a thicker one, and cursive writing should be correspondingly lighter.

When writing calligraphy, there are also the following methods of using ink:

Dry ink: refers to the point painting contains less water, but is wetter than burnt black, especially in the line of cursive, can always appear flying white, enhance the calligraphy ink level, expressive, such as Song Mi Fu "Hongxian Poems", "Shu Su Ti", Huang Tingjian cursive, have a very good dry ink method, according to legend, the Eastern Han Dynasty Cai Yong is good at flying white books, if so, it seems that also to dry ink for it.

Wet ink: Opposite to dry ink, generally refers to more water in the painting, with wet ink calligraphy, the dot painting can have a thick and moist and plump "tendon book" effect, but this method is difficult to grasp, especially on raw rice paper, if you don't use it well, you will see the ink without seeing the pen, and it is thick and bloated, so it should be used with caution.

Thirsty ink: It belongs to the same ink sequence as dry ink and burnt ink, but in terms of performance and aesthetic effect, thirsty ink is between dry ink and burnt ink.

The nine ways to use ink for calligraphy are as follows:

1. Thick ink. The creation of calligraphy is generally dominated by thick ink, because the contrast between thick ink and paper is large, and in the eyes of calligraphers, thick ink is the most spiritual, especially the creation of orthographic calligraphy.

2. Light ink. The concept of light ink is the opposite of thick ink, and it is not the concept of light ink that is commonly used in the creation of Chinese painting. In terms of aesthetic taste, the choice of thick ink and light ink depends entirely on the personal pursuit of the calligrapher, and in terms of aesthetic effect, thick ink appears calm and solemn.

3. Burnt ink. Burnt ink refers to the ink in the painting is not only heavy, but also very little water, like a dry brush, generally not used in a large number of calligraphy works, this is a special method, used well, sometimes there is the finishing touch, if there is a change in shade, the effect is better! Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty and Xugu in the Qing Dynasty made good use of this method.

4. Dry ink. Refers to the point painting contains less water, but than the burnt black to be wet, especially in the line of cursive, can appear from time to time flying white, enhance the calligraphy ink color level, expressive, such as Song Mi Fu "Hongxian poems", "Shu Su Ti", Huang Tingjian cursive, have a very good dry ink method, according to legend the Eastern Han Dynasty Cai Yong is good at flying white book, if so, it seems to also be the method of dry ink for it.

5. Wet ink. Contrary to dry ink, generally refers to more water in the painting, with wet ink calligraphy, the dot painting can have a thick and moist and plump "tendon book" effect, but this method is difficult to grasp, especially on raw rice paper, if you don't use it well, you will see the ink without seeing the pen, and the hypertrophy and bloat will become the disease of the ink pig, so you should use it with caution.

Graduates can engage in calligraphy creation and theoretical research in professional organizations or research institutes of calligraphy art, and engage in art, design, publication of journals, book publishing and related calligraphy art programs in publishing houses, newspapers, television stations, and design units. You can be engaged in calligraphy teaching in colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools.

The China Academy of Art was founded in 1928 and was called the National Academy of Art. In 1929, it was renamed Hangzhou National Art College; In 1938, it was renamed the National Art College. In 1950, it became the East China Branch of the ** Academy of Fine Arts; In 1958, it was renamed Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts; In 1993, it was renamed China Academy of Art, in 2000, it was managed by the Ministry of Culture, in 2000, it became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, and in 2016, it was approved to become a university jointly built by the people of Zhejiang Province and the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture.

It depends on how you use it, and it is also related to your hobbies, and it may also have something to do with the artistic conception and content of the performance.

The calligraphy should be a little thicker, and the Chinese painting is light and thick, and the level should be grasped well.

。。。This ink light will fly thick ink will dry This depends on your actual situation to determine the beginner If the writing is slower, or you want to write the feeling of a dry pen, the ink can be thicker and the writing is faster, like the line of calligraphy and cursive writing The ink can be slightly lighter, generally speaking, the shade is moderate.

Personally, it's good not to add water, in case you add too much, it's bad, if you feel that the writing is dry, just dip it in more ink

Both intensity and lightness are important and vary from time to time.