A brief introduction to Chinese charcoal painting

Charcoal painting is an ancient folk art in my country, also known as charcoal painting. It is a small tributary of painting art. It originates from Chinese painting and is different from Chinese painting. As a painting art, its form of expression also belongs to the category of monochrome painting. Regarding its unique method of applying dry powder and kneading colors on a block surface, it is not completely similar to sketching. Charcoal painting is a unique painting school that integrates art and practicality.

Charcoal painting is a special form of folk painting that uses charcoal powder as pigment and eraser pens, cotton wool, erasers, etc. as painting tools. Charcoal paintings focus on realism, with characters as the main objects of expression. The practice process of using landscapes, flowers, birds, animals, etc. as technical expressions. The origin of his creation relies on the art of photography, that is, he first uses photography to conceive and create, collects materials, and then uses charcoal to rub color, perform artistic processing and reproduction, so as to achieve the purpose of creation. As for charcoal sketching, it is also a form of creative collection of materials. But the tool has another story.

The form of expression of charcoal painting breaks the light and dark tone of sketch, and the realism of charcoal painting is better than the performance effect of mixing, mixing water and paint; especially Features such as stronger three-dimensionality, rich tonal levels, and delicate and lifelike performance effects have won praises from more art lovers.

Charcoal painting is also called charcoal portraiture. It is derived from transparent water-color New Year paintings, drawing on the techniques of calendar New Year paintings, and using the changes in the light and dark tones of sketches to develop a unique painting school.

As for the development of charcoal painting, it is considered in the painting world to be a folk art that cannot reach the level of elegance and has no market. Since the development of charcoal painting has a long history, as an art The form of expression also has the form and direction of its existence and development. At first, charcoal painting mainly focused on human portraits, but now due to the birth of colored pigments (color rubbing powder) charcoal painting is not limited to portraits, but can also depict landscapes, landscapes, flowers, birds, animals, etc. Like creating. However, due to the limitations of the precision and fineness of charcoal painting, it takes time and patience to draft and copy. Therefore, I still mainly rely on photographic materials and charcoal artistic processing for creation. But this does not mean that charcoal painting is only suitable for portraits. In fact, charcoal painting can independently become a form and school of painting, and can also be combined with other painting methods to achieve another effect (for example: calendar New Year pictures) , you can also use the expression form of charcoal painting to learn from the expression techniques of other painting types to express the effects of other painting types or other effects in addition to charcoal painting and other painting types.

In short, charcoal painting is a unique school of painting. Currently, there are no systematic materials and books, and each artist draws charcoal painting in different ways, in different forms, and for different purposes.