Enhancement week (Week 22)

For this week's contextual task, I wanted to focus on describing work.

I chose Jing Hao - Mount Kuang Lu.

Jing has used several techniques with ink, there seems to be an ink wash used where water is on the right hand side of the piece, you can tell this by the slight off colour that is generated, compared to other darker areas of the piece.

In built up areas, like the tree, there seems to be the use of mixed short cross hatching, which helps define the shape and build up tone in these areas. In the mountain areas of the piece, the effect almost looks like a scroll pen (though they weren't invented) the singular lines that go down the page in a uniform fashion is reminiscent of how a scroll pen would feel.

With areas of intense frequency, it seems a stippling effect has been used - to create objects like bushes, in order to give a very compact feeling to this area. This is most notable in the centre of the page where foliage seems more compact, furthermore, values in these areas are a lot darker compared to other parts of the piece, because of how close the foliage is in proximity to one another, additionally, clouds have been represented by white streams through the page, which could have been put there while the ink was drying, gradually removing certain ink areas for this desired effect.

Jing Hao: Mount Kuanglu (960–1279) China Online Museum. Available at: https://www.comuseum.com/product/jing-hao-mount-kuanglu/ (Accessed: February 25, 2023).