Chapter 7 Little Flower
Since he chose the good subject, he began to buy the materials for this work on the market.
After buying the materials, he looked at the tire material in front of him again.
The process of producing a high-end lacquerware is far from what outsiders imagine. It is as simple as applying a layer of paint on the lacquer tire or drawing a picture with lacquer.
First of all, there are lacquer tires. Each lacquer tire has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, metal lacquer tires are strong, and silver is the most noble, but the characteristics of each metal are different. For example, wooden lacquer tires are soft and easy to shape, but the characteristics of each wood are different. For example, rattan lacquer tires, because the unit area is small, they must be woven, and the shapes can easily be lost after braiding. In addition, porcelain tires must be burned out when the porcelain is not formed and then painted.
Therefore, when creating a work, the texture of the painted tire must be considered.
But this is not a top lacquerware. When considering a work, the top lacquerware masters must take into account the texture of the lacquer tire. No matter what lacquer tire, there is a certain texture, especially the wooden lacquer tire, the texture is more meticulous. If these textures are not considered when making the pattern, it will inevitably affect the effect of the entire lacquerware in the end.
Then use lacquer objects, called "painting". Draw patterns with lacquer, called decoration. Or it is divided into two types: flat lacquer and carved lacquer. Flat lacquer is directly used with lacquer tires, without using other complex processes. If the lacquer is exquisite, it will also create a cute feeling because of simplicity. Another type is carving lacquer. Red lacquer is repeatedly applied on the lacquer tire, overlapping layer by layer, and some are mixed with other colors. Then various patterns are carved on it. Finally, the color of lacquer is the color of lacquerware. Most of the lacquerware does not use raw lacquer, and most of them are processed color lacquer. However, due to technical problems in the Tang Dynasty, many pigments have not been discovered now, so there are not many types of color lacquer. Of course, red lacquer is the main one, which is also the favorite color of Chinese people.
However, because Wang Hua's debut work was not much money left, he had to choose two techniques: red and gold, so he did not have high requirements for color paint. Red is a type of color paint, including yellow, green, black, etc. This technique has reached its peak in the hands of Zhang Cheng and Yang Mao in the Ming Dynasty, and the two masters have been famous for their eternity. The so-called red is carved red paint. This craft and material have already begun to take shape in the Tang Dynasty, so Wang Hua does not need to innovate the materials. As long as he switches it on the market, he can buy the materials he has.
There is another one, gold-staining. It means using a knife or needle to draw thin lines on the painted floor, making gold glue on the lines, or filling gold powder with gold powder to make golden patterns. If silver powder or silver foil is used, it is called silver-staining. This process has a longer history and has appeared in the Warring States Period.
Of course, for the first work, Wang Hua did not simply choose these two lacquer methods. In addition to using exquisite patterns, he also planned to add another method based on red picking - carving and filling.
This is a new technique that combines paint filling and gold. It did not appear until the Ming and Qing dynasties. Later, it became a major category of lacquerware. This process is made of paint filling first. Paint filling is divided into two types: grinding and inlaying. Grinding and displaying. After the rough paint is made, the pattern is made by stacking paint, and the color paint is filled in the outline of the pattern is flattened and then polished. Inlay is to carve it first and then fill it up, and directly carve the low-altitude pattern in the finished paint (that is (bamboo + bag) paint, which cannot be typed) and fill it out.
Carving lacquer means making the pattern by filling the paint, drawing out the intimate lines along the outline of the pattern, and filling gold in the intimate lines. Some are directly drawn with colored paint, and there are also filling and drawing. The last method used for king painting is the last method.
The lacquerware made with this lacquer method is gorgeous and colorful. This style is more popular among the people of the Tang Dynasty today. After all, Wang Hua has the last little capital in his hand, only success is allowed, not failure. If he fails, he will be in big trouble.
In addition to these, Wang Hua also prepared some three-dimensional relief methods to highlight the vividness of the scenery and characters. But he did not dare to use it too much, for fear that people today would not be able to accept this kind of art.
The so-called box refers to the mirror box used by women to dress, which generally refers to a delicate small box. After all, Wang Hua uses this lacquer method, which requires a lot of expensive gold powder. If the utensil is too large, the money in his hand will not be enough to make it. Another reason is that box is an important tool for women in modern times. Even sending the woman out of the house is called a box ritual. One day before the wedding, the man sent someone to the girl's house to "urge makeup", and the girl's house sent a dowry to "shop the room" for the man's house. It is a signal for the bride to welcome the bride. Some places in the house are called "sending dowry", which is the dowry dowry sent by the woman. However, this does not refer to a box alone, including furniture, boxes, clothes, bedding, jewelry, gold, silver, copper and tin utensils, etc. The "box ritual record" is listed one by one, combined with fine decoration, placed on a color pavilion, carried by people, and walked before the ranks of sending dowry. Therefore, it is called a box ritual.
So as long as you make an exquisite bin, you can sell it for a good price.
Finally he started to pick up the knife and was about to take action, but before he started, he smiled bitterly and said to himself: "I didn't expect that before I was done by artists, I must first learn to be a businessman."
This is because before he made lacquerware, he was afraid of failure, so he went to the market to investigate once, and finally decided to make a lacquer box.
As he went down to the first knife, he said again: "It's still not possible. I haven't used the knife for so many years and I'm unfamiliar with the techniques."
This is natural. After coming to this world over the years, he has touched the most paper and pen. Although he has almost no one in China to carve a soft knife in his previous life, he may have a deeper artistic understanding over the years. However, he has never touched a knife and his technique is indeed unfamiliar.
After thinking about it, Wang Hua did not immediately carve the patterns. Instead, he found a few firewood and flew on it to restore the knife skills.
His behavior made his landlord very curious. Now Wang Hua is twelve years old and the landlord is not surprised. At this time, people were much precocious than those in Wang Hua's previous life. As Luoyang, now in the capital, there are many students who come to study at the age of Wang Hua.
The landlord also regarded him as a student studying abroad.
But the landlord was not worried. He still reported the style of Cheng, Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the characters were open-minded. Not to mention Chen Zi'ang's million-dollar buying piano, Wang Han, for example, began to like drinking and visit prostitutes when he was a teenager. He hunted, but he got a war drum and beat it "dongdong". When the boys from all over the world heard the drum sound, oh, I understand, the boss hunted and ran over together. Wang Han rode on the horse, and countless young men followed him. Wang Han was full of spirit and pointed out the country, and he was like a general.
The landlord just thought his tenant was also a talented person with strange behavior, so he did not ask about it.
On the fourth day, Wang Hua felt familiar and made this debut again.
This work refers to an excellent cultural relic unearthed from the Southern Song Dynasty - a red lacquer box with gold and ladies. But the pattern is more complicated than the pattern on that work. The wall picture of this sixteen oval lacquer box is not an unrelated pattern, but a couplet picture. It is also because of the current favorite of the Tang Dynasty, the benevolent girl paints more plump, not to mention the extremely complex lacquer decoration technique. If the value of the cultural relics is abandoned, this work has undoubtedly stood at a higher level from the perspective of the artwork.
Especially Wang Hua's lacquer depth, although it is just a simple red color, the whole pattern can be staggered. There are many chrysanthemums and green trees blooming in the garden. The ladies' clothes are luxurious, and there are two maids serving behind them. The deep red color shows the bright moon's cold moon. In addition, the ladies are sitting lazily on the chair, looking at the cold moon in the air, with their empty eyes, which makes people think of what unhappy things did this ladies encounter?
It immediately grasped the viewer's heart.
Wang Hua thought about it again and engraved a line of poem: The silver candle is cold in autumn light,
A small fan of light Luo swooped on the fireflies.
The night is as cool as water,
Sitting and watching the Alpine Weaver Star.
Then he signed the name, but instead of writing his own name, he engraved a small flower. The flower is full of sound. Moreover, Wang Hua's current idea is like a small flower in the mountains, born in poverty, but he also wants to bloom with a beautiful figure.
After finishing this work, Wang Hua looked at the work again and felt very satisfied, so he started polishing it.
In fact, when he got here, he had been working day and night for three days and two nights without closing his eyes.
It was not until the polishing that he carefully put the lacquerware down and fell into a deep sleep on the bed.
The next day, the sun rose high, and he came to the market with this lacquer box.
Chapter completed!