孙岩 SunYan - 山水 ShanShui Landscape Painting

Описание: 孙岩 SunYan talks about his life and painting
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After I graduated in 1991, I started learning painting with famous artists. Speaking of painting, it is a mixture of joy and pain in the process of breaking through. For example this painting, it is called Po Shan in my dream. In order to create this art work, I visited this place several times during 4 to 5 days. In Po Shan, the river is not located as you see in this painting. However, in order to get the whole painting better structured, I moved the river’s location. This is a big scale painting which has 2 meters long. Therefore, I make the road like S and use the waterfall to break the direction of the painting.
In this painting, you can see a lot of trees. I mainly used pine trees. Nevertheless, if you look closely, you can also see other types of trees hiding in the pine trees. In this painting, you can see very obvious contrast of business and looseness.
I also painted clouds in order to make the whole atmosphere vivid. These clouds have different shapes, sizes, and locations. All is to make the structure and colours balanced. I need to paint small details to make the painting more detailed.
All the painting originates from nature. However, you have to put your own elements in your painting. This is art creation. In terms of landscape painting, you can not simply make a copy of the natural views. It is very important to make the painting long-lasting. Make the most of the traditional techniques and put your personality in the painting.
I used big brush to finish the trees. I used a special technique to create the natural finish for woods. Some place has dark ink dots while other places have light ink dots. The purpose of using dots is to create special musical rhythm for the painting. I explain a little about this technique here:    • 孙岩 SunYan 山水 ShanShui Landscape Painting T...