Black and white woodcut 5 production process

Black and white woodcut 5 production process is as follows:

1, over the draft, is to transfer the drawing to the board, beginners are recommended to use the copy method. Copy method:Use transparent sulfuric acid paper masked to the top of the drawing, with a hard pencil for careful tracing, and then reverse the sulfuric acid paper, covered with a layer of copy paper laid on the board, and then use a ballpoint pen to transform the transcription.

Copy to the board is mainly a large composition and large image, some specific details do not have to be copied up, which is conducive to the process of free play in the engraving without being bound by the manuscript.

2, on the lacquer, because after sanding the board there are some fine fiber gaps, a layer of lacquer can be very good to fill them, and can make the wood more dense, so that the carving up more quickly.

The specific method is to use alcohol to dissolve the lacquer flakes, and then use a board brush dipped in the lacquer flake solution evenly on the board, so that it penetrates as much as possible into the layout, and then carve when it is dry.

3, engraving, this step can be said to be the most important step in the black and white woodblock prints, never a mechanical copy of the drawing, the correct approach should be based on the drawing, the full use of the creativity of the knife and dexterity to maximize the use of the artist's imagination and creativity.

4, in-depth, the use of triangular knives, round mouth knife and a variety of other knives on the picture of the overall tone and local details of the carving. You can follow the order from light to dark to complete the gray tone carving, which is more conducive to mastery and control.

5, adjustments, comprehensive consideration and weigh the overall shape of the picture structure and black and white relationship, standing at the height of the overall situation to further correct the lack of accuracy and refinement of the place. This is the final stage of carving, must have enough care and patience, but also should realize that the adjustment can only be the layout of the excess part of the removal, and can not add on anything.

Black and white woodcut is an art with a long history, one of the four great inventions, printing, was produced through the form of woodcut. The emergence of woodcut originated from the ancient convex and concave art in China. Such as colored pottery patterns, oracle bone inscriptions, engraved on the bronze text, Han portrait stone carving, Shaw-shaped seal and other outstanding culture.

Woodcut art was first created in the Tang Dynasty, the Song and Yuan dynasties woodcut art into the flourishing development period, the Ming Dynasty into the heyday, the Qing Dynasty woodcut into the general development of the period. In the 1930s, Mr. Lu Xun advocated the emergence of printmaking, so that the traditional reproduction of woodcut development into a creative meaning of black and white woodcut art works.

Black-and-white woodblock prints are the inexhaustible source of the artistic charm of black-and-white woodblock prints due to the special characteristics of the painting tools and materials used, which are embodied in the expressive power embedded in such special characteristics. The expression of the decorative language of black and white woodblock prints is actually how the authors use various black and white graphic symbols to form a complete picture to express their own creative semantics.