How to Make New Year's Paintings

To start with an ink line draft. Generally it goes through drafting, revising and finalizing. Painter first use charcoal or incense in the draft on the burlap, after the completion of the first draft sent to the painting store for comments, after modification, ink finalized hook line. Requirements for clear, well-proportioned lines.

After the ink line draft, you must also make a color sample, and then according to the color sample traced out four to five color separation, for engraving color plates. Color plate to less good, but set out the picture of the colors must be bright and full of changes.

Woodblock New Year's Paintings are characterized by "a drama in the painting, which is not tiresome to watch; the exit should be auspicious in order to meet the expectations; the character should be handsome, which can win people's joy." On the other hand, to adapt to the two processes of engraving and printing, the drawing must be accurate lines, color should not be too busy. Generally three to five colors, i.e., red, yellow, blue, black and pink. In order to facilitate the printing, the color block should not be too large, the color block is too large to print unevenly.

The same color block can not be too far apart, otherwise the paper is easy to collapse when printing, staining the picture. In order to avoid this problem, painters often use faces, costumes, mascots, etc. to divide the large color blocks in a row. In the same color block is too large space between each other, make up a few of the same small color block support.

Carve the plate to first make the board flat. Because of the wood, pear wood board for the wave-type reverse stubble pattern, solid board is not easy to scrape flat. For this reason, artists often first add a little water on the board, so that it is wet before scraping with a scraper to scrape, or use sandpaper to lighten and grind. First carved ink line plate. Ink line version is also called the "main version", commonly known as "bottom version".

The ink line draft paste paste back on it, until the paste is dry, coated with a layer of sesame oil. Coated with sesame oil has three roles: one can make the pattern more clearly recognizable; the second can be moistened board, so that it is not wet clip knife; the third is to increase the brittleness of the board, easy to carve.