Lacquer painting making steps

Lacquer painting is a painting with natural lacquer as the main material. In addition to lacquerware, there are gold, silver, lead, tin, eggshells, shells, stone chips, sawdust and so on. It is not only a work of art, but also a practical ornament, which has become the expression form of wall decoration, screen and mural painting. Lacquer painting has entered people's daily life more and more, adding a sense of art.

Lacquer painting in a narrow sense refers to paintings with natural lacquer as the main material, while lacquer painting in a broad sense refers to all paintings using lacquer substances. Lacquer painting has the dual attributes of painting and technology. It is not only a work of art, but also a practical ornament closely related to people's lives. Lacquer painting has a variety of materials. In addition to paint, there are gold, silver, lead, tin, eggshells, shells, stone chips and sawdust. In addition to cinnabar, paint pigments include stone yellow, titanium white, titanium blue, titanium blue and so on. The techniques of lacquer painting are rich and varied. Lacquer painting can be divided into different varieties according to different techniques, such as engraving, folding, carving, embedding, painting and grinding.

Lacquer painting production technology

1. plate making

Choose the best film, paint, scrape paint mud, make primer, and polish it for later use.

copy

Describe the conceived drawings with copy paper and copy them on the painted floor; Of course, you can also draw directly on the drawing board with a special white pencil. How to draw depends on the difficulty of drawing.

3. Material inlay

3. Material inlay

The picture needs to be inlaid with baker, eggshell, foil and other materials, and all kinds of images are pasted with pigment (natural pigment liquid); After drying, cut off the excess parts with a carving knife to make the image clear and complete.

Step 4 paint/paint

According to the required color and image, the required color pigments are prepared, and painting is made in different ways with various painting tools such as primary and secondary drawings, front and back pens and so on. Because there must be a certain thickness of polishing when coloring and overlapping, shell powder, gold and silver powder and other materials can be sprinkled as needed when the paint is not dry during the drawing process.

Sticking foil

In the process of painting, due to different methods and repeated production, the paint surface presents irregular concave-convex texture. Apply part or all of the image with thin paint solution, then paste gold foil and silver foil on the required parts, then pat gently with a large wool pen to make the foil stick firmly, then apply pigment and polish.

Cover with paint

According to the requirements of the picture, it is necessary to dye the painting mask with transparent paint and transparent color paint, or render and depict it according to the color tone in local steps, sometimes repeatedly until the ideal effect is achieved.

7. Shot blasting cleaning

After the mask dyeing process is completed, it needs to be polished. At this time, the image of the picture will gradually emerge. Due to the repetition of description, many textures are unexpected, but there are also shortcomings. After initial grinding, gold, silver powder, colored paint and colored paint powder can be sprayed as required, and local painting can also be carried out. Spraying can achieve artistic effects that other technologies can't.

8. pigments

After the above steps, after the picture achieves the ideal effect, you can draw it once or twice.

polish

Polishing is an important means of expression in the process of lacquer painting creation. In the process of polishing, the image and texture of the picture will gradually emerge, either hidden or present, or bright or dark. Looking at the effect while grinding, you will often encounter the desired effect.

10. Polishing agent

In the ground painting picture, use vegetable oil (peanut oil, tea oil, vegetable oil) and absorbent cotton to wipe the paint surface, then sprinkle some fine tile ash to wipe the paint surface evenly until the hands are hot, and then wipe the mud ash with cotton to make the picture bright. If conditions permit, you can apply a thin layer of paint liquid on the paint surface and polish it in the shade for 24 hours, which is better.

Artistic characteristics of lacquer painting

The beauty of lacquer painting lies in its obscurity and mystery. The beauty of lacquer painting lies in its rich artistic expression, diversified techniques and wide inclusiveness, such as: the beauty of meticulous painting; Painting pigment is like the beauty of heavy color; Carving lacquer is as beautiful as printmaking; The beauty of piling paint like relief; Scraping paint is as beautiful as oil painting; Painting is like the beauty of watercolor painting. Lacquer painting craft product is a kind of traditional handicraft product which has been deposited in China for thousands of years. Lacquer painting takes the four elements of weather, geographical location, material beauty and ingenious thinking as the comprehensive conditions of creation, and adopts the technique of combining artificial and nature to draw half a person and half a day. Lacquer painting is beautiful. It is a traditional Chinese painting that has come out of the 7,000-year-old lacquer art tradition, and it is no different from the requirements of traditional Chinese painting and oil painting. Can not be divorced from real life and modern people's thoughts and feelings. If divorced from reality and modern people's thoughts and feelings, it can only be craft decoration, not painting.