The characteristics of Chinese ink painting are: realistic in the near, abstract in the far, subtle in color, and rich in artistic conception.
In the early stages of black and white ink painting, it was expressed in the form of landscape painting. Although there were only black and white, due to the relationship between paper color, it was actually slightly yellowish. Colorful ink painting has been used in modern times for splashing ink on mountains and rivers, as well as for ink animation.
There are also ink prints related to ink painting. Unlike general printmaking, although ink wash printmaking is also a woodcut printmaking, it uses rice paper as the paper material and repeats ink wash printing in different places, creating a layered rendering effect that makes each piece significantly different and also exudes the beauty of ink wash painting.