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Are Chinese painting pigments used for coloring on paper?

You need to use cooked Xuan, outline pen, and white cloud pen for dyeing. The general steps for coloring on paper with fine brushwork are to start with line drawing on pencil drawing paper. After the manuscript is ready, copy it to the outline and outline it. Each pass of coloring should be light. Generally, the plant color is at the bottom and the mineral color is at the top to make the picture calm and unfloating. You can use very light light ink as a base before coloring.

Supplement: It is painted with traditional Chinese painting pigments. Nowadays, some people also use watercolor pigments. The better one is Japanese Sakura brand watercolor. The ivory black in it is used to dye the characters' hair, which has a very good effect. But cherry blossom paint is not easy to buy, and Mary’s paint is just barely there. But mainly Chinese painting pigments are used.

Traditional Chinese painting is based on color mixing on paper. For example, if you want to paint green, you can first paint cyan and then paint garcinia to make it green. But now some painters like to mix the paint to the color they need before painting. It depends on personal preference and effect requirements.