Chinese Painting Pigments: High-Quality Colors for Artists

The depiction of various parts of nature, such as mountains, rivers, trees, and clouds, is done in mixtures of Chinese landscape painting pigments. For the depiction of water and mountains, blues and greens pigmentsulated in azurite and malachite are required. Earth and rocks require the use of ocher and brown painting pigments. Snow and clouds can be depicted using white pigments with shell white type of pigment being the preferred. When these pigments are used, they tend to be quite transparent which allows them to be layered to replicate the depth of the landscape being painted. They’re carefully blended and applied to capture the essence of different seasons and times of day in Chinese landscape art.