Woodblock watermark
Wood-block printing is a special type of printing unique to China. Its plate making and printing is entirely based on simple tools and manual work. It is made by hand-sculpting by using a carved wood plate and using pigments (including plant pigments, mineral pigments, and metal pigments) used in traditional Chinese painting.
The woodblock watermark can wonderfully replicate the unique style of ink paintings, color ink paintings, and meticulous paintings in Chinese ancient paintings. This is difficult to achieve with other modern printing methods. The woodblock watermark is characterized by copying ancient and modern famous paintings to a level similar to the original ones, but has a long production process, less print, and high costs. Therefore, it is mainly to copy advanced fine products.
The production of woodblock watermarks is mainly divided into four processes: sketching → engraving woodblocks → printing → mounting.
First, tick
Trace description is the basis of this version of the watermark, in order to faithfully reproduce the spirit of the original, first with a transparent and impervious adhesive tape on the original, the screen points, lines, color blocks, as well as the inscription, the seal accurately trace down, Then use a translucent tissue paper on the tape that matches the manuscript, and compare the original with the different hue hue, and draw each piece of the manuscript one by one. How many color layers are on the original, and how many pieces of the manuscript are described, Zhang Zhangzi carved into a set of wood, so that a painting according to its complexity, how much the level of color, divided into several sets, dozens of sets, and even thousands of sets. Such as the copy of national treasure - Five Dynasties when the painter Gu Yuzhong's masterpiece "Han Xizai night banquet map." Divided into 1768 sets of woodblock printing.
In order to work as a tracer, one must have the qualities of traditional painting in order to faithfully reproduce the style and charm of the original work. Enough research must be done on the engraving and printing in order to cope with the completion of the entire production process.
Second, engraving wood version
The selected board is selected pear wood, the surface to be flat and smooth. Stick the well-written manuscripts on the wooden boards and dry them until they are solid.
The sculpted wood version was carved on a wooden board with a crescent-shaped carving knife and carved into different colored wood plates. The carving of the workers must be familiar with the paintings and paintings of ancient and modern times, and they should seriously understand the original works in order to be able to use the sword as a pen and to use them freely.
Third, printing
At the beginning, the selected paper or picture frame is fixed on one end of the printing. Then the engraved wood plate is fixed in a position suitable for printing by means of an adhesive that can be moved and fixed. Brush the color onto the printing material on the wood plate.
The colorants used in printing are not inks, but watercolor paints for Chinese painting. The tools for coloring are brown brushes. The shades of color used in painting should be the same as those in the original paintings. Watermarks in subtle shades of the paintings are subtle. When color sorting, it is not possible to divide the line drawn into a single set into several sets, but instead rely on the printer to use different colors or different shades of color to add a set of wooden plates to solve the problem. This process is called in the woodblock watermark term. "æ¸" color.
When printing, a set of wood plates are printed and then replaced with a set of wood until all the sets of the pictures are printed. A maximum of 200 to 300 prints at a time and 20 to 30 prints at a minimum.
Therefore, the printer is required not only to be familiar with the technique of painting, but also to have skillful printing operation techniques, so that it is possible to reproduce the unique style of the original.
Fourth, equipment
Decoration is one of the traditional techniques of Chinese painting. It has the functions of protecting, decorating the picture and facilitating suspension.
Decoration is the use of rice paper, brocade, enamel, enamel, etc. to copy woodcut watermarks to establish the axes, horizontal stripes, albums and other national forms. If it is compared with the original, it resembles the original and achieves spurious effects.