Chinese Painting Pigments: High-Quality Colors for Artists

Chinese art depicting flowers and birds take special care in the pigments used to capture the essence of each subject. Flowers are painted with various shades ranging from pink and purple to yellow and orange, using both natural and synthetic pigments. Leaves and branches require green, using natural green pigments like malachite and modern synthentic ones as well. Leaves, bird’s plumage, and vibrant blues, reds, and greens are used to paint birds and the pigments are required to be highly lightfast and pigmented so the paintings last a long time. This brings the lifelike and expressive nature of chinese art into view as the painting showcases the beauty of nature.