The process of making paper cuttings?

Tools and materials for making paper-cutting

The main tools for making paper-cutting are scissors, carving knives, wax discs, whetstones, powder bags and bricks.

Scissors: the main tool for paper-cutting, ordinary scissors sold in the market for cutting clothes will do. Select a lighter, thinner tip, loose and tight, the tip of the knife Qi, fast blade is more appropriate.

Knife: is the main tool for carving paper, mainly oblique point knife and round mouth knife two kinds. Stationery stores are sold. Carving knife is relatively simple, you can do it yourself. Blade with an old clockwork, saw blade, table strip can be, with a grinding wheel grinding into the desired shape. After the knife is done, it can be tied tightly to a small wooden bar or bamboo pole with a thin string.

Wax plate: a 15 cm ~ 20 cm square board, nailed around 1 cm wide wooden bars, wooden bars should be higher than the board 1 cm, and then sifted grass ash and yellow wax together in the pot heating and stirring, pouring people in the board, flattening cooling that is, this wax plate is very comfortable to use. There are really no conditions to do wax plate, if you use plywood instead of can, but plywood hard, easy to blunt the blade.

Paper: paper cutting is the basic material, paper selection is good, can bring a lot of convenience for cutting. Monochrome paper-cutting is generally used in the domestic market to sell ordinary red paper, or after dyeing of rice paper, the effect of generous, festive, cut out the finished product of the traditional flavor, each time you can carve five or six.

Waxed paper or velvet paper instead, if the paper slippery easy to go, the middle can be sandwiched between a piece of absorbent paper (such as a single Xuan paper, pink even paper) and then stapled together, a little bit smothered and then carved. Colorful paper cuts generally use a single Xuanxuan or pink paper. In addition, framed silk is also a good material for paper-cutting. With a single XuanTuo mounted more good carving.

Steps in the production of paper-cutting

Drafting

After the idea is determined, the layout of the draft, a specific picture of the picture, drawing black and white effect. Modification of the part can be used white powder. For beginners, the finer the draft, the more trouble-free it is to carve. If you carve a symmetrical draft, you can draw half of it.

Cutting, carving

If you use a knife to carve, you must staple the picture and paper, and fix the four corners on the wax plate, in order to ensure the accuracy of the image, the characters first carve the five parts of the five senses, the flowers and birds first carve the details or the tight spot, and then from the center of the carving slowly to the surroundings, the knife order as in the same way as the writing from the top to the bottom, from the left to the right, from the small to the large, from the small to the coarse, from the local to the whole. Try to avoid repeating the knife, don't want the part must be carved off, can't use the hand to tear, otherwise the paper cut will be with burrs and affect the beauty.

Reveal

Cutting and carving is completed, you need to unveil the paper cuts one by one. Electroluminescent paper and velvet paper because of the smooth surface of the paper, it is relatively easy to uncover; single Xuan paper and powder even paper because of the thin paper, and by the moisture and color, easy to stick with each other, it is more difficult to uncover, so before uncovering away, you must first carve the cardboard gently kneaded, so that the paper detached from each other, and then gently uncovered the corner of the first sheet of paper, uncovering the side of the mouth while blowing, to help uncovering.

Paste

The finished product should be pasted up for easy preservation. There are two methods: the first is to put the paper cutouts flat on the paper, with a brush or a thin wooden bar dipped in paste from the inside out a little bit of sticking, this method can not make all the paper cutouts stick flat, the speed is relatively slow, the advantage of the easier; the second is to put the paper cutouts in turn flat on the paper, and then dip the brush in the diluted paste, gently brush the paper to be supported on the paper, pay attention to the paper should not be crumpled, the brush must be less paste, and then very quickly put the brush to the paper to make it more convenient to use. To be less, and then quickly brush the paste on this side of the buckle in the back of the cut paper, gently flatten the hand, so that all the cut paper flat adhesive in the tray paper, gently lifted, drying and clamped flat to save. Adhesive in addition to paste, white latex can also be.

Finished product modification

Shadow in the cut and carve sometimes go knife cut bad, especially carved paper. If a large area is bad, it is not easy to repair; such as a small area is bad, you can carve away partially, make up a piece of re-carve. Color paper-cutting dyeing is wrong can not be covered, so also had to dye the bad part of the carving away, re-supply a piece of dye again. When you make changes, you must have a clear idea of what you want to do before you make the cut. Reproduction - lavender samples - sun samples

Reproduction of two methods: one is to put the paper cut sample on white paper, together with a sub in the water, to be soaked in water to the surface of the paper, and does not contain water droplets, will be engraved paper and white paper at the same time pulling out of the water, affixed to the woodblock, and then the paper is placed face down in an oil lamp to steam, but do not leave the lamp head is too close in order to avoid scorching. Another is to take the method of sun blueprints, the original manuscript and brush a good layer of liquid (red blood salt and water solution) of white paper, glued together, with two pieces of glass clamped, placed in the sun for 3 to 4 hours, to be developed with water to wash the liquid on the paper, can be reproduced and can be produced in large quantities.