Gu Weijing took a clean brush from the brush holder, hovering it about a half-centimeter above the canvas on the easel, lightly brushing at places without paint, simulating the feeling of using the brush while painting.
"Much more refined."
The precision in controlling the brush is the foundation of a painter's ability to paint.
From the perspective of oil painting, all the images in a work are comprised of hundreds or thousands of brush strokes, swaths of color, and dots of pigment.
All complex techniques and clever ideas need to be expressed through a single brush in hand.
The stronger the painter's control over the brush, the more precise and refined the strokes. Generally, the resulting image also becomes more realistic.
Even the Wild Beast School, which cares little for detail,
can have scattered brushwork, but not messy.
It can be bold, but not uncontrollable.
