Materials: ink painting pigment, watercolor paper or rice paper, ink painting brush, water cup and brush cleaning water.

Steps:

1, prepare ink stone and ink. Add some landscape ink blocks to the inkstone, add appropriate amount of water to knead the ink, and control the consistency of the ink.

2. Put watercolor paper or rice paper on a drawing board or a flat desktop to ensure that it is flat.

3. Dip the ink with an ink painting brush and gently wave it to make the nib even and moist.

4. Draw the basic shape of kitchen smoke with smooth strokes on paper, and you can draw the dynamic sense of kitchen smoke with ink strokes. You can try different gestures and dynamics to create different forms of kitchen smoke.

5. In the basic modeling, add the details of smoke. Use a fine brush or a fine ink brush, dip in a proper amount of ink, and draw the curling and natural flowing lines of kitchen smoke. Different strokes, pressures and pen directions can be used to express the lightness and three-dimensional sense of kitchen smoke.

6. On the basis of details, you can use light ink or diluted ink to increase the soft touch-up effect and make the smoke look more transparent.

7. In the process of painting, you can add some rural characteristic elements, such as trees, mountains and rivers, according to the needs of personal artistic creation.

8. After completion, wait for the ink to dry and flatten the work with cardboard or similar items.

Characteristics of ink painting

1, pure and concise: ink painting uses ink, water and paper as basic materials to express the image through the use of ink and wash. It pursues minimalism, pays attention to the purity and conciseness of the picture, and expresses artistic conception and emotion through simple lines and ink colors.

2. Ink-based: In ink painting, the use of ink is very important. Ink contains different shades of black, and different textures and levels can be expressed by adjusting the concentration and degree of dryness and wetness of ink. The application of ink can be presented by wet pen, dry pen, stippling and splashing ink.

3. Permeability of ink color: Ink color in ink painting has strong permeability and can form rich ink color changes on paper. Ink colors can freely flow and blend on paper, forming layers of light ink, thick ink and thick ink, showing the unique artistic effect of ink painting.

4. Freedom of brushwork: Ink painting pursues the freedom and boldness of pen and ink. Artists can freely use pen and ink to express their images and emotions through different strokes, changes in lines and ways of movement. Ink painting emphasizes the painter's control of pen and ink and his grasp of interest.