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Qi Baishi's Experience in Learning Shrimp Painting

The shrimp painted by Qi Baishi, a master artist, is very famous. The shrimps in his works are lifelike, just like swimming in water. The shrimp body is transparent and elastic, and the long shrimp and two shrimp claws seem to keep swinging. Moreover, some people may not know that this lifelike ink shrimp can be drawn in less than one minute with Qi Baishi's pen. Later, many people learned to draw shrimps from Qi Baishi, but this skill was far from perfect. Lu Yiyuan, who had contact with Qi Baishi, wrote the article "Looking at Qi Baishi's Painting", which wrote in detail the scene of Qi Baishi painting shrimp.

Lv Yiyuan loved painting and calligraphy since childhood. When he was in college, he worshipped Qi Baishi very much. In the mid-1940s, Lv Yiyuan lived in Shijiuma Street in Beijing, which was very close to the Qilou Hutong where Qi Baishi lived. One day, Lu Yiyuan was invited to Qi Zhai to have a drink with Qi Baishi's fellow villagers and was warmly received by his host. Soon after they arrived, a banquet was prepared in the room in the north of the yard. The floor of the room is still covered with paintings, dripping with ink, and it is not dry, just hanging there. This is the first time for Lv Yiyuan to appreciate Qi Baishi's works. It's really pleasing to see so many at once.

After dinner, Lv Yiyuan asked Qi Baishi for a painting, and the old man readily agreed. Later, Qi Baishi absorbed it himself, filled it with ink and dipped it in western red. First, he drew two big peaches, then dipped his pen in ink, and soon drew peach branches. After careful observation, Lu Yiyuan saw that the peach was as big as a bucket, bright and round, and it was very full hanging on the branches. Suddenly, he was overjoyed. He repeatedly thanked Qi Baishi for his generosity in painting, and said with a little regret, "I have heard for a long time that Mr. Qi painted shrimps beautifully, and I have never seen them before. It's a pity that Mr. Qi is so tired today that I dare not bother again. " Listen to Lv Yiyuan, Qi Baishi didn't answer. He took out a piece of paper, grabbed a large sum of money, adjusted the ink in the palette first, then scooped out a spoonful of water from the small water tank and dropped it into the pen and root-he wanted to demonstrate the painting method of shrimp. Qi Baishi makes the pen tip to the left, and the pen tip forms an angle of about 40 degrees with the desktop. He pressed hard, because the root was diluted by the drop of water, so a very light spot appeared on the paper. He added a pen in the lower right corner of the dot, half pressing the pen in front, half exposed, obliquely inserted into the shrimp head and clicked on both sides; After painting these, he took a pen, fixed them paragraph by paragraph, drew six paragraphs as the shape of the shrimp's body rising upwards, then pulled forward, wiped the shrimp's tail horizontally up and down with a pen, then added feet and claws, drew the shrimp's eyes with thicker ink, and then clicked on the back. At this point, the main body of the shrimp is completed. Qi Baishi changed into a small pen and began to draw shrimp whiskers. Seeing that he simply skimmed back a few long whiskers from the front of the shrimp head, he drew a prawn, which really took less than a minute before and after.

Later, Lu Yiyuan visited Qi Baishi in the cross-car lane and told the old man what he had heard from that disciple. Qi Baishi, who was drawing shrimp, immediately turned the paper over and drew a shrimp with its head facing left on the other side of the paper. When he turned it over, the shrimp head turned right. The two smiled at each other, and Qi Baishi's agile thinking and humor also left a very deep impression on Lv Yiyuan.