Beijing Ya Qing gourd branding where people

Beijing Ya Qing Gourd Branding is Beijing Fangshan people named Zhou Zhenshan.

When he was a teenager, he followed his father to learn traditional incense-style gourd branding. In the process of learning, but he does not stick to the tradition, while his father's work gradually refined, while trying to get out of a completely new path. Unsatisfied with the monotony of traditional incense-style branding, Zhou Zhenshan introduced the electric branding pen method to reveal richer details.

Because of a chance encounter with cloisonné craft, he tried to combine the cloisonné filigree process with gourds to make an unprecedented filigree gourd. This makes the traditional gourd show more colorful and at the same time more three-dimensional sense. Zhou Zhenshan's wild-eyed approach to artistic creation and the bold improvements in every step of the process reflect his strong passion for creation.

Gourd branding

Branding gourd art, also known as hot-painted gourd, fire brush painting gourd, is a characteristic of the traditional arts and crafts, the more well-known places of origin are Shandong, Shanxi, Anhui.

Branding gourd artist with a branding iron in the object ironed out branding marks for painting, and gourd into one can be permanently preserved, collection, art value is very high. Branding gourd has a long history and unique artistic style. It is said to have originated in the Han Dynasty, and was lost in the Qing Dynasty. Branding creation in the grasp of the fire, strength at the same time, pay attention to the "intention in the first pen, pen forming".

Branding gourd not only has Chinese painting hook, strangulation, point, dye, rubbing, white drawing and other techniques, but also ironed out the rich layers and tones, with a strong sense of three-dimensionality, similar to the brown sketches and lithographs, so branding not only to maintain the traditional painting of the national style, but also to achieve the rigorous realism of the effect of Western painting.

Branding gourd unique picture or portrait, so that it has a unique artistic charm, thus giving people a simple and elegant, evocative of the artistic enjoyment.

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