Sun Long Lotus Goose Map Axis

[Sun Long’s Lotus Goose Painting Axis]

The Lotus Goose Painting Axis, made by Sun Long in the Ming Dynasty, is made of silk, with colors, 159.3 cm vertically and 84.1 cm horizontally
This picture has no style. Seal “Sun Long Book”, “Jin Chuan Shi Yu”, and “Founding Zhong Min Hou Sun”
The picture shows a big goose standing at the edge of the pond grass with its head up and standing under the lotus and the lake stone. Lotus flowers and leaves are painted by the method of first pointing and then hooking, with ink and color alternating. The Taihu Lake Lake Stone is rendered with no bone. The goose uses both bone and outline, outlines the outline and feathers with light ink lines, renders the colors with light ink, and fills the mouth and palm with red brown ochre, with neat shape and exquisite brushwork. The whole painting is not limited to the details, but starts from the whole, focusing on the vivid expression of white geese and hibiscus
In terms of painting, the author integrates freehand brushwork and shape, boneless and sketching, ink and light color into one, and harmoniously integrates them into the picture. The origin of this painting method should be the development and variation of the technique of freehand brushwork of flowers and birds in ink painting since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is a creation of Sun Long and a new trend of freehand brushwork of flowers and birds. This picture is his masterpiece.