Today, my mother showed me the shrimp painted by Qi Baishi. At first I didn't understand what shrimp was going to draw. How to draw vividly? Later, when I saw this painting, I felt that the use of pen and ink had a lot to do with it. But we usually paint so many colors, and there is no such effect.

Later, we found the following information on the Internet:

Qi Baishi lived by a pond since childhood and often fished for shrimps. Began to draw shrimp when I was a child; After I was about 40 years old, I copied shrimps painted by painters in Ming and Qing Dynasties such as Xu Wei and Li Futang. At the age of 63, the shrimps he painted were very similar, but not "alive" enough, so he raised several long-legged shrimps in a bowl and put them on the drawing. Daily observation shows that the method of drawing shrimp has also changed, and his shrimp painting has become one of his representative artistic symbols.

Qi Baishi's shrimp painting has entered the realm of transformation. In his concise pen and ink, he shows the group of shrimp swimming in the water. The thick arrowhead mushroom and dried shrimp are transparent and light, which shows the maturity of Qi Baishi's painting art in his later years. Teacher Qi shows the shape of shrimp, which is lively, sensitive, alert and vital. It's easy to draw because you have mastered the characteristics of shrimp. A few strokes, combined with a light pen and ink, show a sense of movement. A pair of heavy ink eyes, a little Jiao Mo in the middle of the head, and two light inks on the left and right, which makes the shrimp head varied. Hard shell is transparent, from deep to shallow. And shrimp loin, one section at a time, several strokes in a row, forming the rhythm of shrimp loin from thick to thin.

The change of Qi Baishi's pen makes the shrimp waist present various abnormal States, some bow forward and some swim straight. There are also people who bend over and crawl. The shrimp tail is also a few strokes, which is both elastic and transparent. A pair of front paws of shrimp, from thin to thick, from several joints to two paws, are like pliers, one opening and one closing. Shrimp tentacles are drawn with several light ink lines.

Trade-off: It shows the perspective of shrimp in water. Qi Lao's lines are empty and solid, simple and appropriate, soft and firm, broken and solid, straight and curved, chaotic and orderly, and the shrimp on paper seems to swim in the water, with its tentacles moving.