I have to dissolve my home made paints with warm water so that I can use them, which is totally impractical when there is no kettle nearby. I suspect that the colour chips and the colors in the porcelain bowls have a different binder than rabbit skin glue because they are so easy to dissolve. Put an ink stick in water at room temperature and it dissolves very little ink, so it has to be grounded to get a lot of ink, which is more gentle than pouring very warm water over it, which would be way too much ink to work with if I could use it to dissolve an entire ink stick.
I read that the chips are often given as a binder resin and that comes from plants. Which one is used for colour chips?
I found a video on YouTube where peach sap glue has been added to the ink so that it runs less on the paper and stays moist longer on the palette. Peach sap glue is also a resin and resins are added to paints as binders.
Gum Arabic would run too much and is not suitable for Xuan paper while peach resin even has the property that the colour runs less and is more suitable.
As for the Maries colors I have them in a blue box with 18 colors in 9ml tubes, and they are very intense, they were the only ones that were available at Amazon at the time, I should have bought all three packs. #NaturalPigments
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Hi Catherine,
Hi there,
I have an existential question for the community. I have trouble making time for practice because I have trouble making my love of art a priority in my life. I’d love to hear from others about why this style of art has meaning and value in your life.
I love this piece. The touch of yellow in the face and the beautiful Lilly add to the bitter sweet tone of the work. #DoubleLayerXuanPaper
I love the range of shades in this picture and the personality expressed in the bird. I also love the beetle. #DoubleLayerXuanPaper
Thanks for the answer, I haven’t looked in here for a long time.
I have both ink sticks and the Qing Mo is greener than pine soot because it is a different type of soot and the green tea ink stick is also a cool black because of the green tea, although not as much as pine soot.
Even if the topic was some time ago, what I have to write here may also interest others
How do I notice the differences when using whether something is simple student quality with industrial soot or higher professional quality?
If you can read classical Chinese, have a look on that :
It depends what you want to paint ! Landscapes, flowers or birds don’t need the same ink. The Qing Mo is good for some landscapes but not for all. #SumiEInk
Bonjour,
Three work well but there is a difference of colour. Wan nian hong is more “red”, like “vermilion” and the “zhusha” are more “dark orange red” as natural cinnabar. Chinese red was originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar, but beginning in about the 8th century it was made more commonly by a chemical process combining mercury and sulfur, specificly for lake.
#DoubleLayerXuanPaper
For calligraphy, you need dark black and fluidity (not too sticky ink). The both inks Li Ting Gui and Royal ink are correct. I often use also japanese inkstick that are excellent but much more expansive. This is for oil soot ink. But if you want to copy ancient calligraphy masters on a « looking old » paper, I advice you to use a good pine soot ink, in order to get deeper dark instead of too glossy strokes, particularly if you practice xiaokai on a shuxuan paper, because when the ink does not penetrate the paper and dry on the surface, it becomes more brillant. #CalligraphyInkstick
I agree. These inksticks are very “basic”. It can work, of course, but it is not excellent. #Inkstick