Simple Woodcut Painting

Woodcut painting is an ancient creative techniques, in our country has more than a thousand years of history, the earliest it is to serve the religion of a kind of art, and soon into the secular society and widely spread. Such as the folk cardboard, window, especially paper money is in the craft of woodcut painting to skillful played an indelible role, because to prevent forgery so the requirements of the carving more fine. Now there is a history of woodcut painting began in the Tang Dynasty, in the Song Dynasty has been a great development. The oldest surviving woodcut in China is the Vajrapani Paramita Sutra. The real emergence of woodblock prints is inextricably linked to one of our four great inventions, printing, we now use the seal is actually a form of expression of the early prints.

I.? Wood engraving production

Wood engraving knife method is mainly divided into two categories of yin and yang engraving, engraved version is divided into intaglio and letterpress, flat version, hole version, and so on.

The watermarked New Year's paintings of Yangliu in Tianjin, China, are representative of this, and are one of the three main types of traditional Chinese paintings. The first step is to choose the material, according to the purpose of the woodcut you want to do what kind of plate. Wooden boards are generally selected fine grain, wood quality, smooth surface such as birch, linden, white fruit wood, etc., if the pursuit of special artistic effect you can choose the ashwagi plywood. Then it is to choose a 12-piece set of said hand-carving knife, generally suitable for novices. First use sandpaper to smooth the board's wooden spikes, and then their own painting, and then painted with a light color, and then break the candle and put it on, and then use an iron to iron, excess wax scraped down, and then start carving, carving time according to your needs, line thickness depends on your personal preference. Then buy a roller, ink, roll ink to the board, and then the Wenzhou leather paper laid on top, and then buy a wooden mushroom, scrape on it a few times, your woodcuts will come out. Of course this is the beginning stages of woodcutting.

Two? Foreign woodcuts

European woodcuts appeared more than seven hundred years later than us, is in the Song Dynasty after the spread of the past through the ancient Silk Road, now found in early European woodcuts and early prints of our country have a lot of similarities. The earliest prints from all over the world are serving the religion, which is also the same in Europe, the earliest appeared in such as the Bible, the Passion of Christ, the Madonna and Child statue and so on. In the Ming and Qing dynasties because of our woodcuts close to life and inexpensive, slowly through the South across the ocean to Japan, woodcuts to Japan to further develop this technology into the field of decorative arts, branching out of the bright ukiyo-e culture.

Now woodblock prints have been improved by artists from various countries, and more than a dozen carving techniques have been created, and they can be painted on materials of various textures. May this ancient art flower blossom into a new glory.

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