Carved paper is how to make?

Carving tools

Carving knife: carving knife is generally not specialized, according to the need to make.

General practice with a single-sided blade can be, do not need to make, to use. Beveled mouth knife for carving straight lines and curves; round mouth knife for carving round holes and tiny arcs; tapered pointed needle for playing paper staple holes and some patterns at the shaded decorative points. Carving knives are usually sharpened on an oilstone.

Backing: beginners generally care about the whole board or plywood on the paper can be used as a backing. Only students with some basic skills can make a wax plate as a backing under the guidance of a teacher.

The production of wax discs:

Can choose a smooth board about 20 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide that is not easy to deform, and staple about 1 centimeter of the frame around it.

Yellow wax is melted into liquid.

The grass ash is filtered through gauze.

Mix the yellow wax with the grass ash in the ratio of 2:1.

Pour into a frame, quickly flatten it out, and roll it out when it cools slightly.

Simple wax disks are made with playdough instead, but they tend to soften in summer.

Scissors: small, sharp, thin blades are best.

Paper: commonly used wax paper, glitter paper, patterned paper, ordinary color paper, rice paper, blowing paper, flocking paper, etc., according to the need to choose.

Stapler: it is used to fix the paper.

Carving techniques

Monochrome carved paper generally have four kinds of yin carving, yang carving, yin and yang carving and silhouette.

Yin carving: that is, carving away the lines that represent the structure of the image, retaining the large blocks to represent the method of line. This effect is thick, sturdy and childlike.

Yang carving: is carved away from the blank surface, retaining the original structure of the line. The effect of this method is smooth, elegant and delicate.

Yin and Yang carving: In the same piece of work, the combination of Yin and Yang carving methods, so that the composition varies, the contrasting colors of the picture is more distinct, and enhance the expressive power.

Silhouette: It is the method that mainly expresses the beautiful modeling of the outer contour and completely eliminates the inner contour. It is an ancient form of paper-cutting, and it is generally good to show the side of figures, animals, shadow objects and other objects.

Set color engraved paper to the main Yang carving, the main draft were buckled on the back of the required color color paper, can be the first set of small blocks of color, and then set the large blocks of color, generally three or four colors is appropriate.

Dyeing engraved paper is mainly negative engraving, retaining the large blocks, color dots on the top.