To make a satisfactory work, it must be based on skillful drawing techniques and high coordination of the whole body such as brain, hands, and feet.
Chen Wenzhe is skilled in movements, so it is not difficult to make bowl embryos, but he needs quantity, so this time Chen Wenzhe made dozens of them very simply.
Next is the plate, which requires a bit of skill. At least you can't pull or press it at will.
To make a plate, first put a piece of kneaded mud ball on the turntable.
Turn the blanking machine, gently tap the mud ball, try to pat the mud ball in the center of the turntable, and pat it into a cone shape with a small top and a big bottom.
Next, wet your hands with water to lubricate the surface of the mud cone.
Use the heel of your left hand to apply force from the outer edge of the lower part of the mud cone to the center of the mud cone and lift it upward at the same time.
Use the four fingers of your right hand to reach the palm of your hand, and apply force toward the center of the mud ball relative to your left hand. At the same time, lift it upwards. The force applied by both hands is even, and the lifting speed is consistent with the rotation speed of the turntable.
After the mud cone is raised, press the top of the mud cone with the thumbs of both hands to level the top.
At this time, the elbows are fixed on the legs to keep them straight and stable.
Press the mud ball with your right hand, stabilize the mud ball with your left hand, and push the mud ball toward the center of the turntable at the same time. Repeat several times to find the center.
After finding the center, make the mud pillar thick, stable and open, and then open the mud pillar.
The next step is to lift the cylinder and make the holed mud pillar into a cylinder shape. The cylinder shape is required to be straight and the cylinder wall thickness is uniform.
The last step is to make various shapes, and the plate is quite special. When lifting the tube, it should not be lifted too high, but should be stretched outward as much as possible to form a flat plate wall. This is a one-time molding technology.
In fact, if you know how to make bowls and plates, it's not that difficult, you just have to be careful and slow.
This is the routine for making embryos, so it is not difficult for Chen Wenzhe.
In this step, the most important thing is actually the clay. As long as the clay is well mixed, there will be no problem in making the embryo.
Therefore, in the entire process of making porcelain, mud is very important. The first step is to knead out the air bubbles in the mud to increase the density of the mud.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe's mud-melting skills are also at the master level, and he is now on the road to becoming a master.
After making forty or fifty plate embryos, the plates will become even better, which are small plates.
Chen Wenzhe doesn't pursue style, just the same thing. Because it's the same set of things, at most there will be some changes in the pattern.
Therefore, the next step of painting is the most important. As for the glaze, he directly uses white glaze.
Only white glaze can bring out the exquisiteness of various colors.
As for color materials, he has specially made gemstone colors.
He didn't use copper red, which would be too troublesome to bake. He just wanted to try the gemstone color material he made.
If given the chance, he would even like to experiment with formulating gem glaze directly.
A large number of utensil embryos have been made. At this time, the bowl embryos that were just started are almost dried.
After all, the temperature in his studio is pretty good, and with some special methods, the drying speed is faster.
Of course, even if the drying process is not too hot, Chen Wenzhe can still make up for it. At most, he just needs to be more careful when carving.
Before engraving, it is natural to cut the embryo first.
The rake is actually a roughened utensil embryo. If you are very confident in your craftsmanship, you don't need to use the rake.
But here, Chen Wenzhe strives for excellence.
For example, he wants to make a batch of thin bowls. These are for his niece. They should be as light as possible, otherwise, they will be too heavy for his niece to carry.
Therefore, profit margin has become the key.
And this still depends on the porcelain clay. If the porcelain clay is not well mixed, it will easily break when the embryo is used.
As thin as possible, you also need to ensure that the small bowl does not deform. This is the technology.
When the embryo is finished, the small bowl, which is as thin as paper, still needs to be carved, which is even more difficult.
If your hands are unfamiliar, the carving knife will pierce the small bowl with just a simple blow, thus destroying the embryonic vessel.
For Chen Wenzhe, carving is naturally not difficult.
What's more, he was inspired by Master Lu Zigang's craftsmanship today.
Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade, and the method of carving jade can be used on carved clay tires, which is more convenient, faster and simpler.
Carving flowers is really carving flowers, all kinds of flowers.
A small bowl with lotus carved on it will be a small bowl with lotus pattern, and a thin bowl with lotus pattern will be a thin bowl with lotus pattern.
If it is pastel, it will be a small bowl with a thin pastel lotus pattern. The name of the porcelain is as simple as that.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe not only has pastels, but also five colors, dou colors, and rouge colors, and he can even make enamel colors.
These need to be done step by step. He first made simple pastels and multicolored ones.
For example, the small lotus bowl can be made into pastel or multicolored.
Pastels are more beautiful, and colorful ones are also possible, but more cumbersome.
Since we are pursuing speed, we use pastels so that the colors used can be monotonous.
Next, chrysanthemums, peonies, peach blossoms, roses, whatever you can think of, as long as they are beautiful, Chen Wenzhe can depict them at will.
Anyway, he didn't want to make a very special set of porcelain, such as a four-season set or something. He just chose beautiful ones and made them at will, for his own use anyway.
It can be said that this process is also a fusion of his skills.
For example, peach blossoms involve the water-dotted peach blossom technique!
This technique comes from Mao porcelain, but it is not the Mao porcelain made in 1974, but the real 7501.
In the red official kilns, Mao porcelain is no longer synonymous with a kind of porcelain for the Chinese people, but the red memory of youth and life for an entire generation.
The so-called "Mao Porcelain 7501" means the abbreviation of "Porcelain for Great Men" developed in 1975.
In 1975, we began to design and bake a set of special porcelain for great men. This set of porcelain represents the highest level of Chinese porcelain making technology.
Because great men loved peach blossoms throughout their lives, Mao Porcelain 7501 Water Dot Peach Blossom is one of the most artistic and topical porcelains among Mao porcelains.
Unfortunately, Chen Wenzhe only got one small peach-blossom spoon from the first collection, and that one was pawned with a gold medal.
It was only after he upgraded his skills that he could learn the craftsmanship of the water-dotted peach blossom spoon through backtracking.
And this is okay, after all, craftsmanship is the most valuable, and now Chen Wenzhe is also beginning to try to learn this top craftsmanship.
The more he learned, the more cautious Chen Wenzhe became about some of the inheritance he received.
For example, water-dotted peach blossom is a technique invented in modern times, and there are still inheritors today.
And the current inheritor is still very famous.
Even the water-dotted peach blossom technique has become an intangible cultural heritage.
Therefore, even if he obtained this inheritance, Chen Wenzhe had never used it before.
It's not that I'm afraid of anything, but that it's unnecessary.
Even if he wants to make it now, he will only make a batch and plan to use it himself, rather than using it to make profits, such as selling high imitations like First Collection.