First of all, the layout should be harmonious, whether there is the author's personal style, and the artistic conception and interest should be far-reaching. Artistic conception or artistic interest is the first impression of a painting made by the appreciator. A good artistic conception or artistic interest makes the appreciator want to read it carefully. Any good brush and ink skills are for expressing artistic conception or interest services. The style is the characteristic of a Chinese painter different from another Chinese painter, and it is also the standard to test whether a painter is mature or not. All works of Chinese painting masters have distinctive artistic style

Layout is the strategy of painting and the most critical part of a painting's performance. If you draw a huge stone on the left, a bird on the right, add some grass, inscribe a few words below, and seal, the painting is complete. Even if the strokes are exquisite and artistic, the layout is inappropriate, and the picture is out of balance, which makes the viewer uncomfortable, it is not a successful Chinese painting. Master Pan Tianshou's paintings are extremely artistic. One mountain, one stone, one insect, and one bird show the vitality of all things and the poetry of nature. His paintings are dangerous, strange and multiple. Through various images, they are resolved one by one in the fierce conflict, and finally the pictures are balanced and harmonious. His great paintings are magnificent and elegant, which often give the aesthetic feeling of the connoisseur like a shock

Second, look at the shape and line. The modeling is too inappropriate. People are not like people, mountains are not like mountains, and trees are not like trees. Even if the layout is good and the lines are good, it is still not good. The modeling should not be unreasonable, and the lines should be natural and vivid. However, natural and vivid lines have various styles, some are beautiful, some are old, some are simple, some are thick, and some are elegant. These lines will produce different aesthetic feelings by showing different images. In these lines, calligraphy should be beautiful. To sum up, Wu Changshuo's lines are primitive, Qi Baishi's lines are old, Pan Tianshou's lines are dignified, and Fan Zeng's lines are elegant. Traditional Chinese painters who do not have calligraphy skills often have weak, slippery, and childish lines, and the image connotation represented by these lines is very poor. This kind of painting is common in tourist attractions or handicraft stores

Look at the change of ink color. Some bad paintings are often partially dead black without any change. The ink is light and not ethereal. A good Chinese painting pays attention to the five colors of black: coke, wet, thick, heavy and clear. Jiao ink painting is only suitable for the convenience of sketching. It is feasible to collect landscape materials. No one's Jiao ink landscape can become the top grade of traditional Chinese painting. As a complete traditional Chinese painting, Jiao ink painting is greatly reduced in charm. Like Zhang Ding's Jiao Mo landscape painting, people feel thirsty. Qi Baishi's sketches of flowers and birds have a lasting interest. He is very good at using ink, water and color. The brush in his hand changes endlessly in the life propaganda, which makes the viewers still feel the moist picture decades later. There used to be a farmer flower and bird painter in Hunan, who painted with great momentum, good layout and strong brushwork, but changed too little and went straight. He is not good at using water and color, and the picture is angry. He said that "painting ink and color should be given enough", but he gave too much. His pictures are often black or red. His paintings have a strong style, but the quality is not high

In traditional Chinese painting, ink is the most important, followed by color. Good Chinese painting should be color free and ink free. As traditional Chinese painting is not realistic, color should not be too realistic, and should not be out of tune with the images expressed by black lines. Add a little light ink in the general color to make the color cool and ancient. Fan Zeng painted people. The color on his face was not all pink, but light blue. The color of the background was also blue and red, or even light ink, for the sake of high tone and ancient composure. If the face is made of white powder and eosin, the background vegetation is green, and the mountain stone is only made of blue or ochre, it will be tacky. Fine brushwork flower and bird painting and figure painting should also pay attention to the lines of outline and the color of objects. In general, good Chinese painting should not be painted in the same way as oil painting or watercolor painting. For the traditional Chinese painting to be colored, the ink part should not be painted too much, and something should be left for the color to express, while the simple ink painting should be waved heartily, and adding color will become redundant