Learning paper cutting, must know the basics of the beginner

Every kind of art has its own unique artistic style, because the paper-cutting materials and tools used to determine the paper-cutting has its own artistic style. The art of paper-cutting is an "easy to learn" but "difficult to fine" folk skills, most of the authors out of rural women and folk artists, because they are based on what they see and hear in real life, so the formation of the art of paper-cutting thick, simple, simple, bright and fast, a special style that reflects the simplicity of the farmers. The style of paper-cutting reflects the simple spirit of the farmers.

The characteristics of paper-cutting are mainly in the following aspects:

(1) Thousands of cuts, lines connected to the structure: paper-cutting through hollowing, to achieve the exquisite effect, it retains the solid line are skillfully connected to each other, thousands of cuts, lines connected to the structure of paper-cutting is the most important feature. Paper-cutting is very concerned about lines, because the picture of paper-cutting is composed of lines. According to practical experience, the lines of paper-cutting are summarized in five words: "round, sharp, square, missing, line". Requirements to achieve: "round as the autumn moon, sharp as a wheat mane, square as a brick, missing as a jagged tooth, line as a beard." It can be said that the line is the basis of paper-cutting modeling.

(2) Patterned composition: paper-cutting picture for the theme of the need to break the spatial and temporal relations of life, the objects involved in all the planarization, according to the need to arrange objects together, such as the sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds, the birds, the ground, people, animals, plants, buildings, the fish in the water, the underground lotus root, flowers and fruits can be arranged on the same plane.

(3) Patterns are highly generalized, simple and clear: paper-cutting emphasizes the simplicity and rugged beauty of the work, grasping the main part of the image and boldly discarding the secondary parts so that the main part is clear at a glance.

(4) the contrast between the real and the imaginary pattern should be appropriate: paper-cutting to points, lines, surfaces as the basic form of expression, leaving the real, cut off for the virtual; thick line for the real, thin line for the virtual; the main point for the real, the second point for the virtual; the contrast between the real and the imaginary is one of the important criteria for judging a piece of work of paper-cutting, the sparseness of the lines, the thickness, the size of the block, can create the effect of the contrast between the real and the imaginary, the real processing should be focused on, the virtual place should not be the real, the virtual place should not be the real. Handling to focus on, the virtual place can not seem empty, the real place can not seem dull, virtual in the real, real in the virtual, in order to achieve such an artistic effect requires us to skillfully design.

(5) Patterns should be exaggerated: Due to the limitations of tools and materials, paper-cutting is required to deal with the image, not only to seize the characteristics of the object, but also to achieve a natural line connection. Therefore, it can not take the naturalism of the realistic approach. It is required to capture the main part of the image and boldly discard the secondary parts, so that the main body can be seen at a glance. The form should be prominent, the formation of simple, generous sense of grace, the object posture should be exaggerated, the movement should be large, beautiful posture, like the stage debut action, rich in rhythm.

(6) a variety of perspective ****exist: in a paper-cutting work does not pay attention to perspective, the figure's head, hands, feet can be used in different points of view to show; a branch of flowers can be the relationship between the branches, leaves with a flat view to show, while the flowers can be used to show the top-down view.

(7) regular, smooth lines: paper-cutting of various lines of length and thickness with the use of thick lines, thick lines for the outline, thin lines for the interior, sawtooth can be used to adjust the direction. Regardless of which lines are used, it is characterized by regularity and smoothness.

(8) Simple and bright colors

The color of paper-cutting requires complexity in simplicity, and fewer configurations of similar colors, similar colors and adjacent colors. Requirements in the contrasting colors for coordination. At the same time, attention should be paid to the proportion of colors. If a main color is used to form the main tone, other colors can be weakened to different degrees in contrast. Sometimes come across a variety of colors juxtaposed up, a little hard feeling, they are set into black. Gold cut into the main manuscript, you can get coordinated, bright feeling.

(9) the knife should be "stable, accurate, skillful"

Many of the characteristics and styles of folk paper-cutting are due to a certain skill on the knife, such as Zhang Yongshou's creation of the "Hundred Chrysanthemums", many places are the use of knife skills. skill. For example, carving a kind of chrysanthemum "Luohanshu", because it is a straight petal at the beginning of the bloom, when in full bloom, it is curled, forming a screw circle, cut this kind of chrysanthemum, to be a petal by petal from the inside to the outside of the circle cut, cut into the petals after the curling of freely, in order to make up an image of a different, flavorful chrysanthemums.

If you carve a kind of chrysanthemum called "Heron Feather", because it blossoms with a petal set with a petal, a petal hooked with a petal, cut this kind of chrysanthemum, you have to use the "hollowing out method of cutting" to cut up the place to be connected with the piece, petal with petal, the thickness between the petals, size, to be different. In order to be different, different changes, cut flowers can be like the heron's feathers as rich and beautiful.

When carving a relatively large number of paper cuts at the same time, in the use of the knife, to cut not scratch, cut out the paper cuts than scratch out the paper cuts to appear thick. When using the knife must be like a hand holding a hacksaw, up, down and back to cut, the force should be strong, even, otherwise, the knife in thousands of miles will lose flexibility. Be careful not to swing back and forth from side to side, holding the knife up and down must be vertical, carved out of the paper cutting will be accurate. In paper cutting, the knife and knife must be accurate, especially in the knife and the knife where they connect, said down on the next, said up on the rise, otherwise, the line will be easy to be carved by the knife broken or carve not to tear the paper cutting bad.

The "skill" here mainly refers to the use of skillful knife carved out of the "serrated" and "crescent". This is a paper-cutting knife in the two very important knife. These two knife skills used properly, you can form the unique art of paper-cutting "knife flavor paper sense".