When using a Chinese brush, first put down the key lines of the structure of the object or subject, to form the ‘skeleton’. The movement of the brush tip must be purposeful and powerful. Know what you intend to do with the brush, and link the steps (strokes) up so as to activate the painting, to give it rhythm.
Then use Cunfa (a Chinese Painting technique or method using light ink strokes to express texture) and Dianfa (a Chinese Painting technique or method using dots) on all the mountain rocks and trees, making them more ideographic and solid. The variety of nature is expressed using various Cunfa and Dianfa.
