Folk art woodblock prints

Wooden plate engraving board with the board, are generally selected fine grain, wood quality, clean, clean surface, degumming, drying crack-free wood, often used pear, ash, white mahogany, ginkgo, birch, basswood and so on. After the selection of wood, first according to the size of the painting layout sawed into the appropriate specifications size, its thickness to the degree of solid enough, regardless of what kind of board, to planing a flat, smooth, and then to the wood sandpaper polishing. Engraving plate tools to chisel-based, boxing knife, beveled mouth knife is commonly used in the carving of the main pattern of the knife, the knife requires both sides of the knife, thin and sharp, auxiliary tools such as round knife, triangular knife, the size of the knife, curved chisel, flat chisel, large ticking hollow, two ticking hollow, leek edge, repair root, chisel needles, chisel cuttings, etc. Paper to the version of the prints and paintings for the requirements of the selection of the paper, the paper to be clean thin and meticulous pliable and unbreakable, with a better coloring and other characteristics. Most of the traditional rice paper and water burlap paper. Printing tools are mainly brown brush and rake, as well as anointing oil and so on. Pigment Mainly used for coloring and painting process, the pigment is mostly for woodblock print artists according to local conditions, homemade and self-use. Brush Outlining pen and coloring pen. Printing method: Generally speaking, the printing of New Year's paintings from engraving to brush printing into the painting has four processes: First, the artist draft and final draft, with the white drawing method in the burlap or thin cotton paper; Second, the engraver will be the reverse side of the artist's final draft, with the powder paste glued to the planed pear or wood plate, the ink line version of the carving out of the ink line first printed a few painting samples; Third, in the paintings of the sample on the point out of the color, engraving and then according to the point out of the different colors, carve out a variety of different Color overprint plate (generally no more than five); four, brush workers will be each piece of New Year's ink line and overprint plate ready, began to press hundreds of sheets of white paper in the fixed position of the brush printing case, and then put the plate tilted on the side of the paper, turn over the paper with your hands, overlaying the plate coated with pigment, the left hand to hold down the corners of the paper, right-handed with the brown brush brush on the back of the paper on the painting plate. So one by one in a fixed position to brush the paper, and then change another color plate, according to the same brush printing, until all the plate brush finished, into a painting until after. Brush printing color first and second, generally the first ink line, the second yellow, and then blue (blue and yellow two-color overprinted into green), purple, orange, and finally red. Some boutique last printed into a gold dust.