Wuhu Three Paintings: refers to lacquer painting, grass painting and iron painting.
Production method: Stacking lacquer paintings: 1. The first step in making lacquer paintings is to make wooden bases: first ask a carpenter to make several extremely thin wooden boards. I chose a thin wooden board that was 53 cm high, 33 cm wide, and 0.6 cm thick. I wrapped it with a layer of white linen cloth and pasted it firmly with paint paste. After it dried, it became a flat wooden base.
2. Then make the base: use a scraper to apply a thin layer of paint ash on the wooden tire, scrape it flat and let it dry, then polish it carefully with an emery cloth and a grindstone dipped in water. After smoothing, let it dry and then scrape the dust. Repeat the operation. After scraping the paint dust about eight times, the wooden tire will become thicker.
3. Next is painting: first apply the black primer lightly with a brush, thinly and evenly. Apply one layer and rub it in one layer. After about four times, start applying a transparent topcoat. .
4. Outline drawing: use a brush to stick white paint on the paint board to outline the drawing. The chosen theme is meticulous Chinese painting, mainly lines and color blocks.
5. Engraving: Use a carving knife to carve along the lines of the drawing. This step is very critical. The knife technique must be accurate and skillful, the lines must be uniform, and the depth must be consistent. You cannot run the knife or make mistakes, otherwise all your efforts will be wasted.
6. Embedding and filling: Use paint slurry to mix the yellow paint paste, use a small scraper to embed it into the carved groove little by little, smooth it out and let it dry.
7. Polishing: This is a very labor-intensive job and takes several days. A paint board needs to be polished several times, using grindstone, water emery cloth, and very fine tile dust to make the yellow paint lines and the black background blend into one piece until the entire paint surface is very smooth.
8. Fading: First dip your hair in sesame oil and rub it together, then use a pair of fleshy palms dipped in water to rub it. The push made my arms sore and weak, my palms red and swollen, and the paint surface became brighter day by day. Finally, it became as smooth as a mirror, the color was bright, and people's shadows could be seen in the light, and the lacquer painting was completed.
After half a month, the master made four large ones, and I finished one small one. After the work was completed, I felt very happy and thought that I would become an expert in lacquer painting in the future. Then I made a small garden wooden frame by myself, painted it with red primer, and painted my favorite Dunhuang bouncing pipa flying sky, preparing to make it into a fine product. Who knows that extreme joy brings sorrow. One day when I got up early in the morning, I suddenly found that my face was red, swollen, and bulging, and there was only a thin slit left for my eyes. My whole body was burning and itching unbearably. I quickly went to the hospital and found out that it was raw lacquer poisoning that caused severe allergies. He took medicine, took shelter from the wind, and rested at home for a week before going to work. The old master saw him and scolded him severely.
It turns out that raw lacquer is very toxic and most people cannot adapt to it. Based on his many years of experience, the master chef has summed up a set of methods to avoid allergies. From the beginning, I was given strict hand-washing procedures. After each work, I must first wipe off the paint dust and paint slurry on my hands with a newspaper, then wipe my hands clean with an alcohol cotton ball, and finally rinse them repeatedly with soap until they are dry. white. When I was doing my first lacquer painting, I washed my hands according to the procedures conscientiously and didn't dare to be careless at all, so I was fine. Later, as time went by, I found it quite troublesome, so I started to be lazy. Especially when doing the second piece of paint painting, sometimes the process of wiping your hands with alcohol is omitted. This province has suffered retribution. From now on, I will be allergic to raw paint, so I have no choice but to do it. The second piece of lacquer painting was abandoned halfway, and my career in making lacquer paintings was soon over. I felt very sorry when the old master left.
Tongcao painting:
1. The main raw material is Tongcao, also known as Tongtuomu. It is a kind of medicinal material and a Araliaceae tree. The pith in the stem is white and velvety. texture. The so-called Tongcao painting is the painting on this. Tongcao is bleached, dyed and other processes, and cut, glued and other methods are used to make various paintings, with a three-dimensional effect. Now it has been developed to use double-layer gauze pasting, that is, to stick images of flowers, birds, fish and insects on the front and rear layers of gauze, creating a sense of depth and being more expressive. Can be used as home decoration. Can be used as home decoration.
2. Tongcao itself is white, bright, velvety, and easy to dye and shape. During production, craft paintings are made by selecting materials, bleaching grass and other techniques, and then using cutting, nesting, gluing and other techniques. The various flowers represented by Tongcao paintings are lifelike and moving, especially the chrysanthemums.
Iron painting:
1. The founder, Tang Peng, also named Tianchi, was born during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Proficient in iron forging skills, he studied the famous painter Xiao Chimu (Yuncong) as his teacher, learned the composition method of traditional Chinese painting, and adopted the technical characteristics of gold and silver jewelry, paper-cutting, sculpture, etc., and made iron paintings by welding with a forging hammer, which is the first and only one in the art world of our country. Weird. Iron painting has been around for three hundred years, and it was not until the founding of New China that it received attention and support. Through the joint efforts of the old artist Chu Yanqing and the majority of iron workers, the skills have improved day by day. The works have developed from flowers, birds, fish and insects to landscapes, figures and calligraphy. The themes include Xu Beihong's Galloping Horses, Qi Baishi's Jumping Shrimps, Liu Haisu's landscapes, as well as works such as Panda Eating Bamboo, Rock Eagle Spreading Wings, Butterfly Loves Flowers, Fish Playing in the Water, Return of Wenji, Mulan Joins the Army, Chang'e Flying to the Moon, Luo Shen, etc. The style is fresh. , famous in contemporary times. The large-scale works "Welcome Pine" and Meishan Reservoir are displayed in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing; "Huangshan Lotus Peak" and "Guanshan Snow" participated in the 1959 Socialist National Plastic Art Exhibition held in Budapest, Hungary; "Pine Eagle", " Three iron paintings, "Flowers and Butterflies" and "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Smiling" were selected for display at the International Exposition held by the World Peace Council in Paris, France in 1959. Wuhu iron paintings are exported and sold to Europe, America, Japan, and Southeast Asia every year.
1. Iron paintings are made of low carbon steel and other metals, and are made through processes such as furnace, forging, drilling, correction, welding, shaping, quenching, baking, and cabinet installation. Among them, the new anti-rust treatment process of baking paint can preserve the iron paintings for hundreds of years.
Historical background: Duiqi painting: It was created in Wuhu in the 1970s by veteran artist Wu Sicai. However, due to the complicated production process, it has been lost.
Tongcao painting: It was created in Wuhu in the 1970s by the veteran artist Xie Baishui. However, due to the complicated production process, it has been lost.
Iron painting: formerly known as iron flower, it was created earlier and has a history of more than 300 years. It was created by a blacksmith named Tang Peng. He combined traditional Chinese painting art with forging iron technology. The combination created iron paintings and characters that are famous far and wide and highly appreciated by both refined and popular people.
Iron painting process: After years of development and improvement, the iron painting process now uses low carbon steel as raw material, and undergoes forging, milling and filing, shaping, correction, welding, fire extinguishing, anti-rust baking and other processes. Then framed into a painting; in addition, with the continuous innovation of artists, iron paintings have new products - three-dimensional iron paintings, porcelain iron paintings, gold paintings, silver paintings, etc.
Characteristics of iron paintings: The creation of iron paintings combines the composition of traditional Chinese painting, jewelry making, paper-cutting and sculpture techniques. The paintings created "are endowed with sparse and thin lines in the distance, and rough layout in the near objects. The landscape can distinguish the interest of far and near, the pavilions can have a sense of perspective, the figures can have an expressive attitude, and the flowers and birds can show their lifelike postures." It has a unique artistic effect that is similar to traditional Chinese painting but not traditional Chinese painting.