丝瓜,与葫芦一样也是藤蔓类植物,夏季开黄花,果实细长,绿色。丝瓜的画法,与葫芦、葡萄、牵牛花等的画法有许多相似之处。丝瓜花,为筒状的黄花,花瓣有皱且有花脉(花筋)。以藤黄加少许白粉,笔腹颜色稍淡,四笔或五笔点出花瓣。最后,以淡赭勾花筋,再以浓墨或老绿点花苞、花萼(参考凌霄花的画法)。 Loofah, like the gourd is also a vine, yellow flowers in summer, slender fruit, green. Loofah painting, and hyacinth, grapes, morning glory and other paintings have many similarities. Loofah flowers, yellow tube for the cylinder, petals wrinkled and a flowering (flower tendons). Garcinia a little white powder, pen slightly lighter color, four or five pen point out the petals. Finally, with light ocher hook tendons, and then thick ink or old green point buds, calyx (refer to Campanula painting).