Human beings can create miracles with one hand, make tools with their hands, create culture and create the world. The art of painting in China has a long history, and the art of painting has continued to evolve in various periods.
With the use of different tools, a variety of unique forms of painting have emerged. Painting with a brush is done with both hands, whether it is the use of finger force, wrist strength, arm strength, or the use of bone method, qi rhyme, color, the pen must obey the command of the hand.
There is a unique technique in traditional Chinese painting, finger painting, which uses fingers instead of traditional painting tools to paint, including the thumb, index finger, palm, back of the hand and nails.
Usually the painter will use the index finger predominantly, supplemented by the thumb and little finger;When splashing ink, the four fingers, the palm of the hand and the back of the hand are used at the same time. This method of painting gives the work a simple, heavy, and ever-changing charm.
In the "Poetry of Narrative Painting" by Gao Qipei, the founder of the finger painting school in the Qing Dynasty: "I paint with my hands, the flesh and the palm of the hand, and there is nothing in the hand, but there is nothing in the hand." He uses his hands as a pen, using his fingernails, fingers, palms, and backs of his hands to create without leaving a trace.
It depicts various themes such as landscapes, people, flowers, birds, animals, and pommel horses, and shows a unique artistic charm with a gentle wave.
Finger painting has a history of 300 years since its inception and development, and has been loved and explored by many painters. When using your fingers to paint, your fingers are not as obedient as a brush, so your fingers can't store a lot of ink, and too much will lead to flooding, and too little will dry out.
The fingers cannot store ink and are not suitable for drawing delicate and precise lines, so they are not suitable for slow and long lines. The pen can be used to mix the shades on the palette, and sometimes the tip of the pen needs to be dipped in an appropriate amount of thick ink or water, so that it can be freely controlled and controlled.
However, the finger cannot be so flexible, especially in landscape painting, and it is difficult to use the finger to express techniques such as rendering, wiping, and accumulation.
Compared with the brush, the finger painting is intermittent and not thick.
First, it presents a unique sense of heavy and simple. It is with the help of this characteristic that the painter has created painting methods such as dry ink, scorched ink, splashed ink and mistaken ink, etc., to achieve rare artistic effects.
In finger painting, the lines drawn with the nails are more powerful, while the lines drawn with the flesh of the fingers are more rounded and heavy. In most cases, nails and flesh are used at the same time to make the line both pliable and strong.
When the nails and fingers are used at the same time, the pen is rounded when the pen is dropped, and the same is true for the pen, and the lines drawn give a calm and powerful beauty.
The paintings presented by finger painting are both vivid and illusory, both clumsy and not excessively delicate, both capable of expression and inadequate, the artistic conception transcends the limitations of brushstrokes, the inspiration transcends the limitations of form, and the charm of ink color transcends the expression of brushstrokes.
This kind of plausible and clumsy characteristics perfectly conform to the aesthetic standards pursued by literati paintings. The finger painting method shows the characteristics of full of spicy, dignified and thick, simple and simple, and at the same time shows the characteristics of bizarre, scattered and full of tension.
Finger painting requires the artist to be fully prepared, and have superb artistic skills, pay attention to the expression of artistic conception simple without losing depth, and work hard between artistic conception expression and finger pointing.
Pay attention to improvisation, do what you want, and flexibly use various techniques to achieve "handy" in the creative process according to actual needs, so as to draw good works.
Finger painting is a wonderful flower in the thousand-year-old heritage of Chinese painting, in which the fingers move, dye and erase, and press freely on the picture.
Paint with your fingers to create a new kind of vision, and some of the special effects of finger ink are some effects that cannot be achieved by brushes. The art of finger painting emphasizes direct painting from the heart to the hand, so it is very expressive, freehand, and unique.