Chapter 669 Special Skills (300 Month Double Last Day, Ask for Monthly Pass)
In addition, characters from myths and legends, historical allusions, and folk tales can also be selected as themes for porcelain sculpture creation.
It is also very simple to make. After mixing the tire clay, you can just pinch it and shape it successfully. Then you can make detailed modifications and you will be able to complete the statue in no time.
In fact, if you want to go faster, there is nothing you can do.
Because the Dehua Kiln sculpture figures are made using two techniques: molding and kneading.
For molded figures, the main part is molded, and some are divided into two parts, the front and back, or the upper and lower parts.
The head or hand are made separately from a single mold, processed and modified, and then inserted and connected to form a whole.
Figures are kneaded directly by hand. After the statue is formed, there are obvious traces of fingerprints.
The interior of the sculpted figures is mostly hollowed out with a knife.
On the basis of the formation of the body, the detailed decoration is often processed and carved separately.
Such as Arhat’s thick eyebrows and thick beard, Guanyin’s precious flower and necklace beads, etc.!
The most vivid thing is that some statues have small holes on their upper lips, and after they are glazed and fired, real beards are glued on.
Some of the glazed parts are fully glazed on the inside and outside, and some are fully glazed on the outside, leaving the inside exposed. There are often sand stuck to the exposed areas on the bottom of the seat.
Chen Wenzhe does not use molds to make, but just quickly pinches the tire, first roughly shapes it, and then modifies it with a carving knife.
In this way, his production speed will be faster, after all, he will be more skilled in the use of knives.
Therefore, it only took him an hour to carve out six large and small statues, taking an average of ten minutes to make one statue.
These statues are all thirty centimeters high, and each one has a different posture. With the finishing touches, they are similar in appearance but different in spirit.
"Six should be enough!" Looking at the row of statues in front of him, Chen Wenzhe felt very satisfied.
Next, he began to adjust the glaze. Dehua white porcelain has more than one kind of white color.
Although they are all white glazes, they have different effects after they are prepared and fired successfully.
"Ivory white" porcelain figures are representative works of Dehua Kiln in the Ming Dynasty.
Porcelain sculptures fired with "ivory white" have a particularly moist glaze color and strong texture. They appear beautiful and precious and have unique local characteristics.
Therefore, the first thing to prepare must be the ivory white glaze, and then the baby noodles.
Especially the baby noodles are not simple. They cannot be made just by knowing the recipe.
These two glaze colors are very distinctive, such as ivory white, which is white with yellow inside.
And boy's face, also called boy's red, must be white and rosy.
Others include lard white, onion root white, goose down white, and cream white. As the names suggest, lard white is the same as lard, and onion root white is as white as onion root.
With a golden finger, Chen Wenzhe can see many scenes of ancient kiln workers' work through backtracking.
As for some secret recipes, you can make them just by looking at them. At most, you only need to do a little research.
You don’t need to practice these at all, because you know what kind of porcelain clay to use, how to fine-tune it, and what the final effect will be after the adjustment.
These are all things you can learn from by looking at other people’s experiences.
Chen Wenzhe really stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and continued to climb.
He can see other people's experimental processes and learn from other people's experiences and lessons.
In this way, as long as he takes the right path, it will be fine.
Therefore, he is very confident in the various glazes he concocted.
However, the only uncontrollable factor is the difference between modern porcelain clay and ancient porcelain clay.
Chen Wenzhe has no way to control this, so he also needs to experiment.
For character sculptures, it is enough to make six figures first, since they are test subjects after all.
Besides, just making sculptures is a bit boring.
What's more, he also needs to produce a batch of exquisite products to sell to the Hangzhou Museum.
After thinking about it, he was good at making blue and white underglaze red porcelain, ruby red glazed porcelain, white porcelain, and celadon.
Even now, twisted porcelain is added, but he has never made this kind of porcelain.
Don't rush now. Now that you have prepared the white glaze, let's make a batch of white glaze porcelain first.
We already have test specimens for Buddha statues, so we are making some ordinary porcelain ones.
The octagonal bucket cup is the simplest white porcelain work. It is just a tea bowl with the bowl walls made into an octagonal shape.
Next, make something a little more difficult, let’s make a white-glazed shouer stove, which is a type of incense burner.
There are not many complicated decorations, just two pavilions on both sides of the ordinary incense burner.
Pushou originally referred to the door knocker attached to the door with an animal face holding the ring.
Later it was used for the decoration of bronzes and ceramics such as bottles, jars, and pots.
Pushou'er is a model made of an animal-faced holding ring. It is attached to the utensil and the ring cannot move.
The other is to stick only the animal face with movable rings.
Bronze head decoration was popular in the Shang and Zhou dynasties;
Most of the ceramic decorations were celadon from the Jin Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, and they were still used in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, what Chen Wenzhe makes can be regarded as antique wares.
A step further than the white-glazed shou-er stove, with a more complicated process, is the bronze-patterned dragon-ear and animal-foot stove.
It's complicated, but it's not that complicated. It just replaces the ears with two small dragons as ears, and adds some bronze patterns.
Both of these incense burners can be made by drawing, so the production speed is not slow.
Chen Wenzhe only made one piece of each of these works, so new models kept appearing in his hands.
Finally, he also made several strange types of utensils, such as the white-glazed animal-eared fish-shaped statue, the white-glazed Xiao, the white-glazed flute, and the white-glazed flat pot.
In fact, you can imagine what these porcelains look like through their names.
For example, the animal-eared fish-shaped statue must be a kind of porcelain with the shape of a fish and two small animal ears.
Needless to say, Xiao and Dizi, the flat pot was invented in the Yuan Dynasty. Chen Wenzhe had long wanted to make a batch of this type of porcelain, but he didn't find the opportunity.
Now that he has made it, he doesn't mind making more, because there are more skills that can be used on the flat pot.
You can paint on the flat pot, and you can use ink and color.
Black and white are symmetrical and black and white are distinct. This is ink-colored porcelain.
There must be a reason why Mocai porcelain is known as the "most special" porcelain in the Qing Dynasty.
Light ink is like gold, thick and light is like ink, we must have seen it in our daily life.
Black becomes ink, alum becomes gold!
Ink color is one of the varieties of porcelain decorative colors. It is mainly black, with alum red, principal gold and other color materials used to draw patterns on the porcelain and bake it in a color furnace.
Ink color was first used on multi-colored porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, mainly to draw decorative outlines. Ink color porcelain paintings were created and fired during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty.
Ink color is one of the common colors in multicolored, enamel and pastel porcelain.
Therefore, although Chen Wenzhe has not specifically searched for the formula of ink color, he can get the purest formula of ink color material whether it is from multicolored porcelain, pastel porcelain, or chicken pot cups.