Ink Wash in Traditional Chinese Painting

    This is the painting I chose from the China Online Museum, I really liked this one as it uses a lot of the techniques to capture the scene, by using ink and was there are hard lines and edges from the ink itself and also softer edges created by wash.

    For the rocks instead of drawing out all the details he used a bit of a wet brush to make those very detailed textures for the rocks, from some of the ways the makes are created it looks like the brush was put on paper and flicked off to create those sharp lines and thin lines, as the ink is mixed with water it isn't as dart as the pure ink areas therefore it doesn't take over the painting.

    From the leafs it looks like the creator used some sort of stabling techniques too. This, just like the textures on the rocks, is a really quick and easy way of drawing objects with a lot of volume, density and details, however instead of using ink on all of the leafs the creator of this painting took in account of atmospheric perspective therefore the leafs that are further away from the view point is lighter than the ones at the front.

    Lastly, there are a lot of  negative space in this painting too, for example the creator haven't painted in the cloud/sky nor the river which makes it look like it was blended together and almost added dreamy feeling to the overall painting.