Natural root making is full of strange things. These three trees are the most precious trees in the grassland area and are also the best raw materials for making root trees.
Places with good climate conditions often have very little root material.
The unique geographical environment creates unique root materials and provides creative space for creators.
Roots are natural attributes, withering is artificial attributes, and root withering art is the perfect fusion of natural and artificial.
This is the only art in which natural factors account for the majority and artificial factors account for the minority.
Root art creation is the refining and development of these natural materials and forms, and strives to make every work unique. This is also the charm of root art creation.
Although the charm of root carving largely depends on natural factors, artificial carving is also a complex skill, and good root carving works cannot be separated from the skillful hands of the carver.
So, how did a piece of "rotten wood" in the eyes of ordinary people become a lifelike work in the hands of a master? This is about the production process of root wood.
The first step is to dry in the shade.
Generally, it takes two or three years for the root material to be naturally dried in the shade. If it is boiled or steamed, it can be completely dry in about half a year.
The original ecological works highlight the uncanny craftsmanship of small nature, with different shapes and lifelike shapes. While giving life to the works, they are of great ornamental and collection value.
But there should be a shortage of raw materials.
When people have no money and no time, they naturally want to contribute to making society more beautiful.
Looking at those works, Chen Wenzhe still had no emotion at all.
Carve out according to the shape you have thought of in advance, step by step.
Therefore, many people don’t know that in Inner Mongolia, Duogenfeng School has not been inherited yet.
To make root withers, you must have a living tree. It is not possible to collect some waste tree roots.
After all, I don’t have any money now, and I no longer have the concept of honor and disgrace, so I naturally have to do something.
The second step is to peel.
Appreciating root art is a root-seeking process in which the soul feels integrated into nature.
Sure enough, there were not many strange bonsais there, and naturally there were also many businesses selling bonsai works.
Remember not to rush it, as exposure to the sun will cause the tree roots to crack.
For example, what Chen Wenzhe saw at this time was not the withered Tumote wood.
Such as the Longevity Turtle, the Divine Horse, the Oriental Awakening Lion, etc. They really don't have the unique form of seven, and they are majestic.
And all traces of artificial artistic re-creation should be hidden in the beauty of nature.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe firmly approves of digging up tree roots and protecting the environment. No one is responsible.
Therefore, promoting environmental protection is not a bad idea.
The third step is carving.
The best way is to use a high-pressure water gun to wash away impurities such as bark and soil.
Digging treasures from waste, creating environment from roots, and the conception of root art creation must focus on protecting the natural form and natural beauty to a minimum.
You can use a machine to polish it, or you can polish it manually with sandpaper.
Because there are no thousand-year-old HLBE maple trees, Eshaos salix trees, Poplar euphratica trees in Ejina, Thuja cypress in Urad, Elaeagnus elata, Haloxylon ammodendron, Bawang root, etc. in Xinjiang Province, they are all relatively old.
Withering of tree species and roots is an art of subtraction. There is a way to repair it before it is removed. Every step must be considered to give life to the work.
The roots of chaos but not decay, the wood of ugly and grotesqueness, become a masterpiece of root art. It depends on the artistic conception and selection and processing of the carver. Only if it is not carved repeatedly can it leave regrets.
After communicating with the boss, I learned that the withered roots came from the waste wood under the railway.
All tests will lead to an attitude in which vitality lies in tenacity, perseverance, struggle and waiting for opportunities to grow desperately.
Wood that can grow in harsh growth environments such as grasslands, deserts, Gobis, and cliffs is considered hardwood.
For example, create a characteristic town and turn your hometown into a famous cultural town that integrates stone carvings, root carvings, calligraphy, paintings, forest of steles, etc.
In the exchanges and dialogues that span time, you can experience an endless reverie and simplicity.
Through the root works, one can seem to see the various tests that nature has put on life over the course of thousands of years.
Step seven, apply paint.
"Eh? That style is really weird!" While shopping, Chen Wenzhe was looking aimlessly in a flower, bird, fish and insect market.
Some of the root works need to be painted, some need to be waxed, and some of them are decorated and keep their original color, such as Populus euphratica.
Therefore, ancient trees such as Populus euphratica, Baigelan, Elaeagnus elegans, Thuja cypress, and Bawanggen have grown tenaciously and tenaciously over thousands of years.
Besides, I made Root Wither before, but it was very difficult to break the environment.
Now that I see some withered wood, I have no idea.
Is there any way to do it? Can the growth time be longer or smaller? Can the density be smaller?
The baptism of violent storms, the torture of scorching heat and cold, the duel of swords, bows and arrows, the temptation of gentle wind and drizzle.
Recently, Chen Wenzhe has been busy working on the museum he built. After seeing this stone carving factory, he wanted to build a stone carving and stone carving museum.
However, through the skillful hands of Master Gen withering and some careful processing, the dead wood was able to spring again and gain a seventh life.
The fourth step is polishing.
Not yet, after making stone sculptures, I thought about using stone sculptures to create an artificial landscape.
Yes, it is said to be scrap wood, but that thing is divided into ages.
Year after year, they retain their character and are full of strangeness. After careful consideration and carving by the craftsmen, they become one piece of timeless work.
The style of Gendong's works from Inner Mongolia is rough, and the shapes have no distinctive features of their own.
Some works with themes of animals living in grasslands and deserts have unique styles.
As for high-quality products, they can only be bought with money.
The withered roots I see now should be from Inner Mongolia.
As long as you don't have the skills, it should be difficult to make hundreds of thousands of root withers. In the past, collecting and exhibiting them made fewer people understand and love root withers. It should also be difficult.
In addition to the necessary axes, hammers, electric saws, hand saws, sandpaper, and knives for carving, there are only about eighty of them, round, flat...all kinds of shapes.
In the eyes of others, old dead wood and rotten roots may be a bad thing for burning.
Of those 5 steps, the most difficult one is carving.
It inspires people to shoulder their responsibilities, and at the same time promotes the innovation and development of national art and inherits the art culture of Chinese civilization.
In addition to promoting root art culture, Chen Wenzhe also wants to do a public welfare undertaking.
A small part of the root raw materials I make come from Inner Mongolia.
There were very few works of art on display in that shop.
Those pieces of wood are all scrap wood collected during the construction of railways in the early years.
The root museum should be very attractive, and as long as I spend money, I can't be nervous about how much I can collect.
In recent years, it has become an upstart art work that is highly respected in hotels, restaurants, teahouses, homes and other places. It is highly sought after by lovers and has become a new field of collection investment and a new hot spot.