How many types of Chinese paper cuttings are divided into, and which ones are they!

Chinese paper cutting works can be divided into three categories: monochrome paper cutting, multi-color paper cutting and three-dimensional paper cutting.

Monochrome Paper Cutting

Monochrome Paper Cutting is the most basic form of paper cutting, which is cut from various colors such as red, green, brown, black, gold, etc. It is mainly used for window decorations and the base samples of embroidery. It is mainly used for window decoration and embroidery base. There are mainly three methods of expression: yin-carving, yang-carving, and combination of yin and yang. Paper-cutting for embroidery, commonly used in the combination of cutting and stabbing techniques. Pricking is to use the tip of the needle to prick out small dots in the fine parts of the pattern, leaving a "dark knife" in some parts, which can be used as the basis for changing the needle and thread when embroidering. Folded paper cutting, silhouette, torn paper, etc. are monochrome paper cutting forms of expression.

1, folding paper cutting

The so-called folding paper cutting that is folded in different ways and cut into paper cutting.

2, silhouette

Shadow is an ancient form of paper-cutting art, through the outer contours of the figure and the shape of the object, so it is most focused on the beauty of the outer contours and modeling, silhouette due to the limitations of the contour modeling, generally to express the side of the figure or other objects for the better.

3, torn paper

Torn paper is a new type of traditional folk paper-cutting deformation, the method is to use different types of paper, the use of hand-torn method to tear the shape.

Colorful Paper Cutting

With the exploration and development of paper-cutting expression, the forms and techniques of colorful paper-cutting are gradually increasing, such as dotting and dyeing, overlaying, separating colors, filling colors, wood printing, airbrushing, painting, and colorful weaving, etc. Each form has its own features and characteristics. Each form has its own characteristics and uniqueness: dot-dye paper-cutting is moist and decorative; overlay paper-cutting is brittle and bright; color separation paper-cutting is distinctive and rich in color; color-filling paper-cutting is simple, clean and distinct, all of which give people a different feeling.

1, dyeing paper cutting

To color in the carving of paper for dyeing paper cutting. This kind of paper cutting also belongs to the carved paper, in the design of the Yang line is not much, favoring the dry small area of the yin carving, to leave a large area of the Yang side of the dyeing. Similar to the effect of woodblock prints.

2, set of color paper cutting

Set of color paper cutting is usually based on Yang carving, the opposite of dyeing paper cutting, large area hollowing out, leaving room for the set of color. From the back of the work to paste the color paper block, mostly with black paper or gold paper cutting, according to skin color, clothing, artifacts, flowers and trees, etc., respectively, with different colors.

3, color paper cutting

Color paper cutting is also known as scrapbooking paper cutting. It is a combination of two or more monochrome paper cutouts collage, basically still monochrome paper cutouts. It is a collage of paper cut in different color shapes to form a picture.

4, coloring paper cutting

Coloring paper cutting, also known as pen color paper cutting, coloring the use of pen. The specific method is to paste the black paper cutouts onto the white lined paper, and then use the pen to paint in the outline of the lines.

5, woodblock print paper cutting

Woodblock print paper cutting is a combination of printing and cutting a form of paper cutting, the method of woodblock printing that is "open phase'' and then openwork, but also in the woodblock printed paper cutting and then coloring, and direct printing into paper cutting effect directly on the sticker.

6, spray-painted paper-cut

Spray-painted paper-cut is spray-dyed by the airbrush (gun). Can be sprayed on the lining paper, can also be sprayed on the mounted paper cutouts. Airbrush spray fog point, there are special effects, like mist, morning dew, frost, snow, rain drops. Points have the size, sparse and dense.

7, drawing paper cutting

Drawing paper cutting is a combination of paper cutting and painting a form. One is to cut and carve the main, and also use the brush to outline the details, there are all outlined with lines, and then use scissors to skeletonize the blank space; another is to use gold foil paper to carve out the general outline of the pattern, so that some local blank, and appropriate outlined with lines.

8, color braided paper cutting

Color braided paper cutting is a type of braided and cut paper cutting. It is the use of various colors of paper strips, after different cutting and weaving, composed of a variety of geometric patterns and flowers, animals, characters and so on.

Dimensional Paper Cutting

Dimensional Paper Cutting can be both monochrome and colorful. It uses a combination of painting, cutting, folding, gluing and other techniques to produce a new type of paper-cutting close to sculpture, relief, which draws on the skills of modern art, fully embodies the characteristics of realism and the romance of art, so that the paper-cutting from the sense of plane to three-dimensional, can be used for ornamental modeling and children's handmade and so on.

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