On Water Attributes in Water and Ink Portraits Painting

As a branch of Chinese painting, the water and ink portraits painting is derived on the basis of the traditional freehand figure painting and absorption of some Western elements. Its spirit core is still Chinese painting. It also puts water in the primary status. The supreme kindness is just like water. And water is the soul of the water and ink portraits painting. The employment of brush and ink cannot be separated from water. The expression of ink language has to be done through water. Without water, the painting will be dry and stiff and there will be no artistic conception of Chinese painting. Therefore, without water, there will be no painting. The water and ink portraits painting makes combination of brush, ink and water and then forms its painting language. And the play of the water attributes endows such portraits painting with special Chinese humanism.