The Role Of Sketching In Meticulous Flowers-and-Birds Painting

Sketching is a kind of painting skill in painting meticulous flowers-and-birds painting.The painter refines and sublimates the natural image through sketching,and achieves the purpose of creation.Meticulous flowers-and-birds painting is an important part of Chinese painting.It is an organic combination of lines and colors.Lines highly generalize the shape and colors to express the three-dimensional sense of space.Sketching has a guiding role in meticulous flowers-and-birds painting.Through the study of excellent works,it is found that most of the painters represent real objects in their works,and convey a unique feeling to the audience,which are different from the real images.If we can integrate this painting skill according to the creative needs,we can highlight the final effect of the work.Many ancient and modern painters have illustrated this with their own works.The application of sketching in meticulous flowers-and-birds painting is embodied in the following aspects:the role of opening up the present by borrowing the past in painting;the role of using the foreign for the Chinese in painting,and the role of integrating and connecting in painting.The study of sketching techniques is helpful to better understand the role of sketching in meticulous flowers-and-birds painting.