Freehand brush work

Through the inheritance and development in the past dynasties, freehand brush work has gradually become the most influential and popular genre.

And it might be the essence of freehand brush work that it mostly grasps the most obvious or essential spiritual characteristics.

Raw paper is the main material of free hand brush work for it has better absorbency and is more solid.

Compared to other genres, freehand brush work is more random, because it does not pay too much attention on the similarity.

By depicting all the contents in a scene, the painter can finally achieve an atmosphere in which the relations, colors, positions and all the other elements are able to convey spiritual consideration.

Ink is a significant tool used to create a freehand brush work, especially in Chinese paintings.

Ink paintings are conducted with a liquid of pigments or dyes and then be applied to color a surface to create an image.

This genre merely consists of two common colors: black and white varying in thickness of the ink, composition and padding.

It requires skillful and specialized application of proportion of water and color and ways to appear a sense of texture.

Compared to ink painting, it has vibrant colors and being more expressive bringing greater visual impact.

Natural scene is a comprehensively major factor of freehand brush work with two subordinates of flowers-and-birds as well as landscape.

The former one often presents merely one or two birds perching or flying around a certain type of flowers or plants wearing various expressions or showing different gestures related to paintings’ theme.