The best perspective expert

Chapter 607 Grapevines and Rockery
Facing the simple pattern sketched by Han Zhenyang on the stone, Zhou Chenggang's family looked at each other for a long time and then asked wonderingly, "Is this a grapevine?"

"It doesn't look like it?" Han Zhenyang smiled, stretched out his hand and gestured on the stone: "Look here, this is a rockery, here we need to take out some jade meat, leaving only a little bit for the leaves of the grapes and the grapes themselves. This side is erected, and the upper part is hung on the rockery, you can imagine that kind of picture."

Zhou Cheng just thought about it for a while, "It really feels like that, but you are too abstract. You just drew two strokes like this, and the sketch came out. It's amazing."

"Haha, this is our basic skill. In fact, in most cases, I don't even draw such sketches. I just draw them directly. I only draw when I am faced with more complicated works or works that require extra caution. Sketches or blueprints."

"So is this design complicated or simple?" Zhou Jixiang asked curiously.

"This is a relatively simple one, because the main consideration of this kind of theme is how to portray the artistic conception that is vivid and joyful in life. The requirements for pure technology are not high, and it mainly tests the creator's layout ability. and imagination."

Zhou Jixiang covered his mouth and smiled when he heard the words: "Hehe, it means that the sketches you drew are mainly for us to see?"

"Ahem, it's also for insurance. If such a precious material is wasted due to my carelessness, I will feel very sorry," he explained with a cough. Of course, everyone can see that this explanation is just a cover-up.In fact, it was true. If it wasn't for Zhou Ruyi's family to see it more clearly, he wouldn't draw any pictures at all, and just cut the knife.

Of course, there is no need to pretend this big garlic in front of the family, it is boring.

Zhou Chenggang smiled and said: "Leave us alone, just follow your habits. What we are looking at is your unconventional carving method. The more mysterious you are, the more we admire you, haha."

"Okay, I'll start," he said, taking out the carving knife and starting to chisel it.

There is no way, there are too many parts to be removed for such a large material. It would be too time-consuming to dig out a little bit with a small carving knife, so he used the flat knife in the carving knife as a chisel to dig out the unnecessary parts directly.And the small pieces of jade dug out with a chisel can still be used. Those small pieces of jade can be made into small things like beads or jade pieces. If you like it, you can also make earrings or rings. Although the size is small, the advantage is that the material is the best material, and it can be sold for a lot of money.

If you use an electric knife to grind it off, you can only harvest a pile of jade chips.

So when he was doing carving, he always followed the way of doing wood carving. Anyway, with the support of spiritual energy, he did it quite easily.

With the sound of jingling and knocking, the unnecessary parts were dug out, and this piece of jade, which was originally somewhat square, showed a rough sense of hierarchy.

According to his design, this vine ornament is mainly composed of two parts, the rockery and the vines, the rockery is the background, the vines are the main body, the rockery is behind, the vines are in front, the rockery is a dead thing, the vine is a living thing, and the rockery is a living thing. It is still, and the vines are moving. When paired with the oriole birds used for decoration, this picture that is suitable for movement and stillness is very vivid.

At this time, he had just dug out the unnecessary parts and made a simple outline along the way, and he had already divided the main layout and layers, just like making the foundation first when building a house. This ornament is used as the foundation, and the next process will be carried out around this frame.

Going forward step by step in this way, it is a matter of course to become an excellent ornament.

Of course, his requirements are definitely not only excellent, but very outstanding. This is a good opportunity for him to show himself in front of his future father-in-law. If he is only excellent, how can he do it?

Once the basic outlines have been chiseled out, it's time to show off the real technique.

He holds a small carving knife in his left hand and right hand, and digs at the material with a basic outline. His knife technique is very fast, faster than ordinary people carving wood, and he uses both left and right bows, so it is basically a one-time forming, directly Carved a further outline.

This outline is different from the previous outline. The previous outline could only see the basic layers and layout of the carvings, but this outline has basically taken shape. Grape vines, orioles, and rockery can all be seen clearly, just like The rough house that has been built when the house is built.

The next step is the two processes of fine digging and repairing.

Fine excavation is a term in woodcarving technology. In fact, the principle is similar to other types of carving, which is to further remove the redundant parts on the carving and perfect all the details of the carving.This is a very critical step, especially for carvings with more complicated craftsmanship, hollowing out, perforation, outlining, and polishing. Details such as textures must be drawn out.

The polishing is to further improve the surface details on the basis of fine excavation, and at the same time do progressive smoothing treatment on the surface of the carved piece, so that the surface of the carved piece is smoother.

For a skilled engraver, after finishing the polishing process, the carved piece will be very beautiful. If the polishing is done well, it can even directly present a mirror effect.Similarly, the better the light repairing effect, the better the polishing effect. If the light repairing technology is not in place, the surface of the carving itself will be bumpy, and these defects will only be more obvious when polishing.

When doing woodcarving, it’s okay to say that if there are defects, they can be polished off through the polishing process, and it only takes a little more effort.

However, the hardness of jade is high, and ordinary polishing is difficult to make up for this defect, so it needs to be done in one step when polishing.If you use an electric grinding head knife, this process does not matter, because the electric grinding head rotates very fast, leaving almost no traces when you cut it, and it is very smooth, and you can directly polish it after carving.

But he uses the most advanced wood carving technique, using a wood carving knife, the scratches will be very obvious, so the polishing process is especially necessary.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that his jade carving style is so special and distinct, because his carving method will leave a very distinctive personal characteristic on the carving, and even the knife technique he used when carving can be seen from the carving , and this is where the charm of carving itself lies.It is convenient to use an electric grinding knife for carving, but it has no characteristics and style. Everyone's works have the same appearance. Except for the different themes, materials and design styles, the most important carving techniques are the same. It has no character, which is not a good thing for carving skills.

However, because the texture of jade is too hard, from ancient times to the present, the method of rubbing jade has been used. The so-called rubbing technique is to grind and cut with high-speed rotating knives. Whether it is human-powered jade or electric jade, it is not very big. the difference.

When everyone can only use the flawed and stupid method, it's okay, everyone is the same.But now that there is an extra one like him who uses wood carving skills to carve jade, he will naturally stand out.

Therefore, as the carvings gradually took shape, Zhou Chenggang's family was dumbfounded. You must know that although his family is engaged in jade mining and rough stone wholesale business, they have also seen serious jade carvings, and even Zhou Chenggang once did it. Through the jade processing business, I know how jade is carved.

But Han Zhenyang's carving method is really unprecedented for them.

That's why a few people were even more surprised. Zhou Jixiang even reached out to touch Han Zhenyang's arm, "Brother-in-law, is your arm a mechanical arm?"

Han Zhenyang didn't dare to let Zhou Jixiang touch it. This is his sister-in-law, and he had to avoid suspicion, especially in front of his girlfriend and future father-in-law, so he subconsciously avoided Zhou Jixiang's touching, but this one, The sharp alloy carving knife scratched across the surface of the carving, leaving a scratch on a newly carved grape.

Seeing that he was in trouble, Zhou Jixiang quickly withdrew his hands, stuck out his tongue and laughed along with him: "Brother-in-law, I didn't mean to..."

Zhou Chenggang lowered his face and scolded Zhou Jixiang: "What does it look like to be crazy all day!"

Han Zhenyang waved his hands hastily, "It's okay, it's okay, it can be repaired."

"How to repair this? Just dig it out? Or make it into a small piece?" Of course Zhou Chenggang would not be really angry with his daughter, and a person with deep pockets would not care about such a small loss, not to mention that this carving only needs to be repaired in a small way. Just adjust it, even if the carving is completely destroyed, Zhou Chenggang doesn't care.

But you still need to express your position. After all, this carving is not only made of a piece of top-quality material, but also Han Zhenyang's painstaking efforts. If you don't express it, what will Han Zhenyang, a son-in-law-to-be, think in his heart.

Of course, Han Zhenyang didn't have other ideas. Even if Zhou Chenggang didn't say anything, he didn't care. After all, he and Zhou Chenggang had only known each other for a few days?What he cares about is Zhou Ruyi.

But when Zhou Chenggang said this, he also smiled and said: "That is also a way, but I am not a famous jade carver anyway, which method is a bit out of class, hehe."

"Haha, I said yes, hurry up, I'm looking forward to it even more," Zhou Chenggang laughed.

He nodded, picked up the flat knife and chiselled on the scratched grape. After a few chisels, the small grape immediately changed into another shape.Immediately afterwards, it was replaced with a triangular knife for carving, and a small insect appeared vividly in front of several people.

"Ah, it turned out to be this, brother-in-law, you are too imaginative. With such a change, the subject is completely different from before," Zhou Jixiang exclaimed with his eyes shining when he saw this.

(End of this chapter)