What are the techniques of woodcarving?

Some wood is soft and some wood is hard. Generally, wood is soft and easy to carve, while hard and heavy wood is difficult to carve. Hardwoods with tough wood, fine grain and bright color are called hardwoods, such as mahogany, boxwood, rosewood, flat mahogany and hawthorn.

It has all the advantages of carving and is the first-class material for carving. It is suitable for sculpture works with complex structure and fine modeling, and it is not easy to be broken and damaged during production and preservation. It has a high collection value, but carving takes a lot of time and is easy to damage tools.

Pine is suitable for beginners, such as basswood, ginkgo wood, camphor wood, pine wood and so on. This kind of wood is suitable for carving works with simple modeling structure and general image, and it is also easy to carve. However, due to its soft wood and light color, some of them need coloring treatment to enhance the sense of quantity.

Some wood grains are obvious and varied, such as Fraxinus mandshurica, pine and Chinese fir. So you can skillfully use the smoothness and texture of wood grain to make some more lyrical works. Generally speaking, the greater the shape ups and downs, the richer the wood grain changes and the more delicious it is;

The more tactful and smooth the modeling, the more ideal the effect of wood grain trend will be, and even unexpectedly beautiful and very decorative. Of course, the modeling design of this kind of wood should be highly summarized. Too complicated and too small will not only destroy the wood grain, but also cause visual contrast. Therefore, before creating works, it is very important to know something about wood and choose materials suitable for performance.

Handling:

1. Manual drying: the wood is sealed in a steam drying chamber, and the water is evaporated by steam to dry the wood. (depending on the size and thickness of wood, for example, the drying time of 4cm board usually takes one week), the highest drying degree can make the moisture content of wood only reach 3%. However, after high temperature evaporation, wood becomes brittle, loses toughness and is easily damaged, which is not conducive to carving. Generally speaking, the dryness of logs should be kept at about 30% moisture content.

2. Natural drying: classify the wood and put it in a ventilated place (board, square or log), and put it in piles. The bottom of the stake is about 60cm from the ground, and there is a gap in the middle, which makes the air circulate and take away the water, and the wood gradually dries. Natural drying usually takes several years or months to meet certain drying requirements.

3. Simple manual drying: First, dry the moisture inside the wood with fire. The second is to boil the resin in the wood with water, and then dry it or air dry it. The drying time of these two methods may be shortened, but wood soaked in water is easy to change color and damage wood.

Extended data:

origin

It is generally believed that the woodcarving art in China originated from the Neolithic Age.

But in fact, woodcarving art, like other sculpture arts, was born with the appearance of human beings; At first, it was just an involuntary behavior, and it was not until people had aesthetics that woodcarving really became an art.

Wood carving originated in China in the Neolithic Age. Woodcarving fish appeared in Hemudu culture in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province more than 7,000 years ago. The woodcarving skills in Qin and Han dynasties tended to be mature, and the painting and carving skills were exquisite and perfect. The appearance of colored woodcarving indicates that the ancient woodcarving technology has reached a quite high level.

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