How to make sugar painting?

Sugar painting, as the name suggests, is made of sugar painting, it is also sugar and painting, can be seen and eaten. Folk commonly known as "inverted sugar man child" "inverted sugar cake child" or "sugar lamp shadow child". This craft with local characteristics of Sichuan has a history of more than 400 years. According to the examination, it originated in the Ming Dynasty "sugar prime minister", Chu Renwu "Jian gourd supplement collection", Ming custom every new sacrifice to the gods, "melted sugar", printed and cast into a variety of animals and characters as sacrificial offerings, the casting of characters "gowns and watts xuan ang The casting of characters "robe and tablet", just like a civil servant and military general, so it was jokingly referred to as "sugar Prime Minister". Later, Sichuan folk artists will be Chinese shadow, folk paper-cutting and other sister arts modeling techniques into one, do not use printing and casting molds, but instead of directly manipulate the small copper spoon, scooping sugar liquid painted shadow patterns, gradually evolved into today's sugar painting art. With a small round spoon to scoop up the copper bucket of sugar, wrist drive spoon running, randomly waved on the polished marble plate, or lift, or pause, or put, or close, speed fast, a breath. With the sugar liquid strands sprinkled, less than a minute's time, lifelike birds and animals, flowers, birds, insects and fish and other images will be presented in front of the crowd. In particular, the mighty dragon and the colorful phoenix, it is very impressive.

Sugar paintings are vivid, colorful, and loved by the masses, especially children. You may have seen the performance of sugar painting artists on the street, and you will definitely feel that the production of sugar painting is very magical. In fact, the production of sugar painting is not too difficult, as long as you have a certain painting foundation is not difficult to do.

Candyman painting is not the same as painting. Sugar painting is done with sugar, which is very easy to solidify when it cools down. Therefore, you need to be fast in drawing candy figures. In addition, drawing a candy man is equivalent to a series of strokes, so there should be no breaks between each stroke. In this way, the problem of the stroke order of drawing arises. A well-designed stroke order makes it possible to draw the candy man very quickly and the sugar does not get cold easily. In order to familiarize yourself with the steps of drawing a candy man, it is usually necessary to do some drawing practice before drawing a candy man. This drawing practice is just like the usual drawing, but you have to draw the strokes together, and you have to draw all the strokes for drawing the candy man. So, the purpose of drawing practice is mainly to practice stroke order and composition.

Before you can draw a candy man, you need to boil sugar. Before boiling the sugar, prepare a marble slab and brush oil on it, brush the oil thinly so as to prevent the sugar from sticking to the marble slab. Put a copper pot on the fire, add a suitable amount of water, and then add sugar. The ratio of water to sugar should be 2 to 1, i.e. two parts water to one part sugar. Stir the sugar gently to prevent it from sticking to the bottom. Gradually increase the temperature of the water so that the sugar can dissolve in the water. After the water boils, exhaust the water vapor into the air. At this point, the temperature of the sugar solution gradually becomes higher, and the water in the sugar solution gradually decreases. You can see that the sugar solution is starting to bubble. This is because there is less water in the sugar solution and the tension of the sugar solution is greater. The air will make some big bubbles on the sugar surface in the process of emission. The temperature is not enough at this time. The right temperature for boiling sugar is when the color turns slightly yellow and the big bubbles turn into small bubbles. The purpose of boiling sugar is to spread the sugar liquid into sugar sheets for use in sugar painting. When the color turns yellow and the bubbles become smaller, the fire is almost ready, so pour it onto the marble slab while it is still hot. Once the sugar mixture is poured onto the marble slab, it will cool and solidify. Once the sugar mixture has completely solidified, chop the sugar pieces and add them to the plate. Good quality sugar cubes will not dissolve for half a month at room temperature. The sugar boiled in this way is more transparent, very brittle, non-sticky, non-dripping oil, non-liquid, in order to be used as a material for drawing sugar paintings.

Before drawing sugar paintings, you first need to melt the sugar. Sugar melting is to dissolve the prepared sugar cubes in a sugar pot. Dissolve the sugar with low fire, if the fire is high, the sugar will be burnt. Dissolve the sugar slowly over a warm fire, and when the sugar is completely dissolved you can paint.

The person who does the sugar spinning does not have a draft, the drawing is all in his mind. Do sugar painting must have a clear mind, to be done in one fell swoop while hot, they draw on the characteristics of traditional shadow production and carving techniques, the twelve Chinese zodiac signs shouting to come, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, flowers, birds, fish and insects, birds and beasts, with the wisps of sugar silk fluttering, will be lifelike in front of you, and then stick a bamboo stick while it is still hot, it is a great success. Children holding up a flying dragon or spreading the wings of the flying phoenix, gazing at the sun, it is so crystal clear, alive, a moment is not ready to eat, only gently lick with the tip of the tongue, and proudly show off to their peers, see the people's eyes and mouth also greedy.