For a long time, Chen Wenzhe did not use the Sui Marquis Pearl to directly learn skills.
This time he directly discovered the enamel painting technique, which was a bit beyond his expectation.
This is a professional counterpart skill, and it is the top skill.
So without much hesitation, he spent his achievement points step by step, learned it completely, and mastered it.
Although it took some time to digest what I learned,
But after he finished studying, he realized that what he learned this time was really not simple.
This top-notch craftsmanship is really worth learning.
This time, not only his painting skills have been greatly improved, but also the painting blending effect, painting effect, and even the firing effect after painting, especially the color changes, etc. have all been greatly improved.
It can be said that just learning an enamel painting skill gave him an overall improvement.
It can even be said to be sublimation. Such a comprehensive skill has given him many skills. Even if he has not reached the master level, it has already put him on the road to becoming a master.
Therefore, if you encounter truly top-level craftsmanship, or craftsmanship that exceeds the master level, you still need to learn.
At his current level, any breakthrough can bring him an overall improvement.
Now that he has learned enamel painting, he has a comprehensive understanding of enamel firing.
"No wonder they say that the more you study, the more you feel that your knowledge is shallow and you don't know anything. Now that you know how to make enamel, it becomes more difficult to make it!"
After integrating them all, I learned how to make enamel,
Chen Wenzhe felt that what he thought before was too simple.
Enamel porcelain needs to be fired in the kiln five times.
This was completely beyond his expectation.
Also, many people say that enamel painting is a monopoly craft. Originally, they didn’t know much about it, but now they know it deeply!
"Do it slowly!" Chen Wenzhe is a little helpless, but he has time now, and he can also cooperate with the firing of Ru kiln and pastel zhaodao porcelain.
In this way, time is not wasted at all, and it can also make people full of work every day without feeling empty at all.
This kind of work life is exactly what he wants.
"This is really a monopoly!"
While sorting out the firing process of enamel, Chen Wenzhe sighed with emotion.
Many people don't understand why enamel color is said to be a handicraft monopolized by the palace? Because enamel color has never left the palace.
Its production was entirely carried out in the palace.
The required white porcelain body was specially made by the Jingzhen Royal Kiln Factory, and after being shipped to Beijing, it was painted and fired at the Qing Palace Manufacturing Office.
The required patterns were drafted by the Ruyi Pavilion of the manufacturing office, approved by the emperor, and then painted on the porcelain by the court painter.
Many kiln workers in imperial kilns have never seen what enamel is, and ordinary people have a vague impression of it.
Emperor Qianlong once said a saying, "The common people have no respect".
This means that ordinary people cannot see it.
Even now, not many people can be seen.
actually,
After sorting out this craft carefully, classifying it, researching it and understanding it, and using modern technology, it seems that it is not too difficult to make simple ordinary enamel works.
However, it is definitely not easy to make truly high-quality products.
Enamel technology is mainly divided into three categories: filigree enamel, micro-painted enamel, and filled enamel.
The main thing that is popular now is definitely cloisonné enamel.
In the past, traditional enamel products were mostly made of red copper, with mineral glazes and fired at high temperatures into colorful patterns.
Its production mainly goes through tire making, filigree, blue dotting, sintering, polishing, gold plating and other processes.
The production materials are relatively simple, the production procedures are complicated, and the production time is relatively long.
Modern enamel craftsmanship is mainly produced through enamel decorative painting production equipment.
Input the screen graphics into the computer, and the computer will input the image into the program module of the decorative painting production equipment, and finally control the decorative painting production equipment to print, and then combine the enamel consumables for process production.
The finished product is of excellent quality and the imaging is precise and clear.
This kind of porcelain can not only be made of glass, but also can be made of enamel decorative paintings based on wood boards, acrylic, ceramic tiles and other materials, and has a wide range of applications.
Of course, this kind of thing is not what Chen Wenzhe wants. What he wants is top-notch art, not mass-produced decorative materials.
In fact, there are not many materials required to make enamel. The main raw materials are silicon, lead, borax, feldspar, quartz, etc.
As for the production process, it is actually very simple. First, you need to make the enamel.
Enamel is the name for an artificially processed vitrified substance.
It uses natural feldspar, quartz and other minerals as its main raw materials.
Then add soda ash, borax and other compounds as fluxes.
Then add titanium oxide, antimony oxide, fluoride, etc. as opacifying agents.
Finally, metal oxides such as copper oxide, cobalt oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, and antimony oxide are added as colorants.
After crushing, mixing, calcining and melting, it is poured into water and quenched to obtain the enamel frit.
It is then crushed and finely ground to obtain enamel powder.
After mixing the enamel powder, apply it on gold, silver, copper and other metal objects.
After roasting, it becomes metal body enamel.
If glass is used as the body, it is called glass body enamel;
Those with porcelain as the body are called porcelain body enamel.
So, is it very simple?
But if you don’t know these procedures and have to figure it out on your own, it will be very troublesome.
For Chen Wenzhe now, the method of firing porcelain enamel is really not difficult.
As long as you know how to do it, it's not difficult. This is what it means to be a true believer.
However, regardless of whether you know it or not, it is really troublesome to make.
The most important thing in making enamel is to prepare the enamel material. Once the enamel is prepared, when you actually start making it, you must start with the refined white body.
To make any piece of porcelain, it must be white, that is, plain.
Don't think that the white body is easy to make. It is the white body used in ordinary porcelain.
The white body used when firing enamel is not simple.
First, pure kaolin is selected, and after a series of preparation processes, it finally becomes high-quality and pure kaolin.
This involves a formula for optimizing kaolin clay, which can also be said to be a secret recipe.
The ancients did not know the chemical elements of kaolin, nor did they know what kind of kaolin was suitable for firing what kind of porcelain.
They can only make the most suitable kaolin through long-term practical experience and complex processes.
For example, when firing enamel white bodies, what they finally obtained was high-purity kaolin.
After that, it is time to practice the clay, draw the embryo, and make the white tire.
Next is the firing of the white tire, this step is also very important.
White tire firing uses quartz, feldspar, borax and clay as raw materials to make a white tire tread glaze, and dilutes it with water.
It is then applied to the surface of the porcelain and fired to give it a glassy luster.
At this time, the white tire can withstand temperatures between 600°C and 1420°C, and can withstand repeated firings in the kiln multiple times.