How to carve New Year pictures with five art boards?

1, drawing: the teacher draws a sketch; First, the theme is selected and the content is determined, and then the painter conceives the draft. After taking out the first draft, it can be finalized after repeated examination by the painting shop and repeated revision by the painter. The painter will cross the lines to make a draft, and finally hand in a chalk line draft, a color draft and several color separation drafts for finalization.

2. Carving: Make good use of boxwood with delicate and tough wood, which is not easy to wear and crack, and can also be made of pear, jujube and other plates. The thickness of the woodcut should be about two inches to prevent distortion and expansion. Sculpture is a fine special skill, which is mainly accomplished by sculptors.

3. Printing: Print the publication sample by printing plate, and then make color printing woodcut according to the color of the picture.

4. Color matching: The ink used in the New Year pictures is prepared by the artist himself. First-class bituminous coal (or ink ash) should be mixed with batter and fermented and precipitated for at least one month before use. Only in this way can the ink color be clear, uniform and moderate in saturation. Chinese painting pigments were first used in printing, such as rouge, gamboge, cyanine and stone green. The color tone is elegant and saturated, but the cost of Chinese painting pigments is more expensive.

5, printing: most of them are overprinted with color plates, one color for each version, and it usually takes five or six times to overprint a New Year picture. The most important thing of overprinter is that it is accurate and unbiased, so that the printed works can be consistent with the original.

6, open your face, that is, draw your eyes, draw your eyebrows, point your lips, and apply powder.

Woodblock New Year pictures are a traditional folk art form with a long history in China, with a history of 1000 years. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, folk New Year pictures reached their peak.

In China, New Year pictures are symbols of the New Year. If you don't put up New Year pictures, it's not the New Year. New Year pictures are not only decorations for festivals, but also have cultural and artistic values. They are an encyclopedia reflecting the life of China's civil society.

Woodblock New Year pictures developed to the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and dozens of producing areas appeared, including: Liangping in Chongqing, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Wuqiang in Hebei, Weifang in Shandong, Taohuawu in Suzhou, Zhuxian Town in Henan, Mianzhu in Sichuan and Pingyang in Shanxi. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, except Tibet, New Year pictures were used all over the country, including Taiwan Province Province.

On May 20th, 2006, Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year Pictures were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. On June 7th, 2008, woodblock New Year pictures were approved by the State Council and included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

From 2065438+2009 10, woodblock New Year pictures were selected into the protection list of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.