Landscape painting is also a kind of Chinese painting, which occupies a large proportion in Chinese painting. How to draw a good landscape painting is a difficult point for beginners. If you like, let's learn how to create landscape paintings. Landscape painting creation method

"There is nature outside and mind inside"

"Choosing a foreign teacher will win the heart in China" was put forward by Zhang Zao, the founder of ink and wash landscape painting in Tang Dynasty. It is said that once he was a guest at the home of Lu, an official in Jingzhou, the dense bamboo outside the porch caused his creation, so he took the initiative to ask his master to bring silk to paint on the spot. In the crowd of many guests, Cao Zhang waved and swept. "If the current excites the gas, it will shock the hurricane, and the ink will fly, and the palm will crack." Soon he finished a strange landscape painting. There are turquoise and water clouds on the picture, which is very vivid and touching. On one occasion, his friend Bi Juji asked him for creative experience, and he answered eight words: "Nature outside the teacher is the heart inside the teacher". "Nature" refers to nature, and "spiritual source" refers to the painter's thoughts and feelings. It is said that a painter should combine objective images with subjective thoughts and feelings in the process of creation. First of all, he should draw creative materials from nature and be faithful to the objects he depicts, but this step is not enough. He also needs to process it in his mind and integrate it into his own * * *. The word "nature from the outside to the inside, mind from the inside to the outside" reveals a correct creative process and has been the guiding principle of painting creation for thousands of years.

Cao Zhang's creative experience is very valuable. To learn the creation of landscape painting, we must first go deep into nature, take the true colors of mountains and rivers as the creative material, and we can't build a car behind closed doors, take other people's works as the only basis for creation, and engage in "moving mountains" behind closed doors. That's not the road to success. Second, we should process the natural image into an artistic image, not as a "camera". In today's highly developed photography technology, painting has not been replaced by photography precisely because it contains the painter's subjective spirit. Painting comes from reality, but it is higher than reality. People say that "the West Lake is picturesque", which shows that although the scenery is beautiful, it is not as beautiful as the painter described. A painting is not a good work if it doesn't incorporate the painter's thoughts and feelings.

"intention first"

As early as the Tang Dynasty, some painters and calligraphers had realized that the correct creative process should be "intention first". Calligrapher Mrs. Wei said in "Pen Map": "Before the defeat, the meaning will be followed, and before the victory, the meaning will be followed." Zhang Yanyuan, an art critic, pointed out more clearly: "The similarity between pen and ink is based on intention and pen use." Therefore, "intentionality comes first with pen" has become the guiding principle for painters' creation. Hao Jing, a master of landscape painting in the Five Dynasties, said: "Every painting of landscapes is intentional first." . Huang, one of the four great masters of the Yuan Dynasty, also said, "Or draw a landscape, decide a topic first, and then start writing. If there is no topic, I will not draw it. " In modern literary language, there should be a "theme". If you write an article without a theme and a clear center, you will write what you think, and the result will inevitably be "writing a thousand words, digressing Wan Li". The same is true of landscape painting. If there is no "heart" and "thinking" before writing, a painting will not be good. Take Cao Zhang, a master of splash-ink landscape painting, for example. He has long said that his pens come and go like lightning and thunder. According to the description of his paintings, Zhang's expression in front of the pen is "sitting on a white drum, inspiring", that is, he sits quietly in front of silk fibroin and holds his breath. After a while, he began to paint with unrestrained feelings. It can be seen that Zhang Zao also had a process of conception before painting, otherwise he could not draw a good picture.

Wang You, a landscape painter in the Qing Dynasty, elaborated on what the conception contained and what problems to solve. The following excerpts are made for your reference:

"First intentional pen, for the purpose of painting. When painting on the couch tube, you need to feel at ease. Sweeping away vulgar intestines can be understood as eliminating distractions and focusing on * * *. Silently on the plain, concentrate on calm. Watch the game, judge the left and right, look inside and outside the picture, have a plan, and then absorb ink. Set the momentum first, then divide the picture into * * *, that is, the main structure * * *, then distribute it densely, and then distribute it darkly. Change the faucet, call the east and the west, come and go naturally, and shoot together naturally. There is no doubt that it is brilliant. If there is no fixed opinion, fame and fortune are impatient, just trying to please people, paving trees and paving stones, piling up one by one, distorting the whole picture, meaningless, and vulgar. "

"Boldly dissolve the pen, be careful."

The ancients said that painting should be "boldly and carefully cleaned up", which is an important creative experience. It means to be bold when you put pen to paper and paint. After the general trend of composition structure is determined, it is necessary to write straight, or lift or press, or thick or thin, or thick or light, or dry or wet, and start at will, in one go, so that the picture drawn will be clear, coherent and varied. After the overall situation has been set, come back to correct the defective pen and make up for the shortcomings, so as to improve the details. If you use the ink accumulation method, you can also accumulate dyes layer by layer on this basis to complete the painting.

Why "boldly put pen to paper"? The reason is: 1. Landscape painting emphasizes momentum. If you are timid and hesitate to use ink when painting, the painting will have no momentum, full of air and lack artistic appeal. 2. Landscape painting is complicated and trivial. If you pay attention to the description of details at the beginning of painting and are cautious, it will be easy to be incoherent, scattered and lack of magical color. But "bold writing" needs to be combined with "serious cleaning", because after writing, there may be faults or omissions that need to be repaired. Besides, sometimes after writing, because of the inspiration of generate, new rules and regulations appear, and it is necessary to take advantage of the situation to obtain unexpected benefits.

"Kung Fu is beyond poetry"

Lu You, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, taught his son to write poetry, saying that "Kung Fu is beyond poetry". The same is true of learning to draw. We should not only learn some pen and ink techniques, but also pay attention to other aspects of cultivation if we want to create well.

Paying attention to the painter's accomplishment is a fine tradition of China's painting. Zhao Xige, a connoisseur of the Song Dynasty, asked the painter to have three accomplishments: "I have thousands of books in my heart, and I am satisfied with the miracle of the previous generation. I didn't start writing until I was in estrus for a long time." The first aspect he said refers to the need of literary literacy. In China, the influence of literature on painting is profound. Since Su Dongpo put forward the famous theory of "painting in poetry and poetry in painting", poetry and painting have formed an indissoluble bond. Not only to create the artistic conception of poetry, but also to become the highest realm pursued by China painters; Moreover, after poetry and postscript are directly put into painting, literature has become an important part of painting. Therefore, if you lack literary accomplishment, you can't be a good painter. The second aspect refers to the inheritance of tradition. Culture is always passed down. Today's paintings developed from yesterday, and it is impossible to develop new paintings without studying tradition. The third aspect is to have a deep foundation of life. Life is the source of art. Without life, you can't draw a good picture. To learn Chinese painting, in addition to the above three accomplishments, you should also learn calligraphy. If you still have spare capacity, it will be of great benefit to learn some seal cutting. A Chinese painting usually consists of poems, books, paintings and seals.

Many famous painters and art educators agree that learning painting should pay attention to "outside painting". Pan Tianshou said, "Painting all day is not the way. Drawing is not only a matter of skill, but also a matter of all aspects. If you paint all day, your hands will slip. Read more and study hard. " Lu said: "If you devote all your energy to painting and don't ask other knowledge, you may not get the effect of continuous improvement. Especially to a considerable extent, it is even more so if you want to raise it. "

As for landscape painting, many people's opinions are introduced above, but these are their creative ideas, which we can refer to, and we don't have to create according to their ideas.