When painting with silk, the silk needs to be stretched flat. You can prepare a wooden frame of moderate size first, cut the silk well, it should be slightly larger than the picture frame, spray it wet for a while, so that the silk is fully moistened, fix the four sides on the picture frame with glue or tape and level it.
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About Gongbi painting
Gongbi, Wade-Giles romanization kung-pi, in Chinese painting, meticulous brush technique that delimits details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation. It is often highly coloured and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects. The term gongbi is also used to refer to paintings that are generally more descriptive than interpretive. Gongbi paintings are considered to be the opposite of more freely and quickly sketched paintings called xieyi, or “sketching [one’s] thoughts.”
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