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"Come on, you have such a bad tone! Lao Kang, I don't think we should look for another chance. Just today, now! How about I let you, an old guy, compete with other little bosses?" Mr. Lu next to him also laughed.
road.
"Yes, Bibi, let Lao Lu say it, I'm also curious!" Lao Tang also joined in.
At this time, Mr. Wu noticed Uncle Long next to him who was smiling and never interrupted, and couldn't help asking: "Shopkeeper Long, you are not worried at all!"
"What are you worried about? I have confidence in Xiaodong's wood carving skills! Although it is not as good as you old guys, but in terms of simple skills, it is not inferior to you!"
Listening to Uncle Long's confident words, the four old men couldn't help but look at each other in surprise. They have been working together for many years and have been friends for many years. But they know that Mr. Long is not a person who talks nonsense. Since he said so,
That must mean that Liu Dong's sculpture level has reached a certain level.
"Now that you say it, I'm even more curious! Come on, let's compare it now!"
Kang Lao's words made everyone around him start to make noises.
"Okay, since you all want to see it, come with me!" After that, Uncle Long took the lead and led everyone towards the third floor!
The third floor is Uncle Long's studio in Taiyi Pavilion. Small pieces of furniture are usually made on the third floor, so there is a lot of wood here, and the carving tools are also very comprehensive.
After everyone came up, Uncle Long pointed to the carving tools placed on the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the third floor and said: "Xiaodong, the tools are all here, and the wood is placed by the wall. You can choose whatever wood you want."
After listening, Liu Dong nodded, and then came to the east wall. Here were large and small pieces of wood. They were basically the leftovers from when Uncle Long made furniture. They were not too big. But
The wood materials are all of good quality. There are even huanghuali and rosewood, but they are too small.
After looking around, Liu Dong chose an old chicken wing wood that was as thick as a bowl and more than thirty centimeters tall.
Folk carpenters are used to dividing wenge wood into new wenge wood and old wenge wood. The distinction between new and old wenge wood has nothing to do with the age of the wood, but mainly depends on the quality of the wood. The wood is rough, the texture is turbid, stiff, and lacks change.
The wood is purple-black, and the chicken-wing wood that is easy to crack and stubble is new chicken-wing wood; the wood is fine and dense, with vivid and varied textures, with purple-brown and light crab claw patterns, and the longitudinal section is slender and floating, resembling a chicken wing.
The wood is old chicken wing wood.
After seeing Liu Dong select the materials, the surrounding crowd became completely quiet, because the carving process was about to officially begin. At this time, the wood carver needed silence.
Holding the wood in his hand, Liu Dong used his perspective ability to carefully understand the inside and outside, every scar, and every texture, and then sketched in his mind what he wanted to carve.
Something. One pattern after another kept emerging, and then was quickly dismissed by Liu Dong.
"Hey, I have it!"
Liu Dong decided in his heart, then opened his eyes, and regardless of the strange looks from the people around him, he walked directly to the Eight Immortals table next to him, took the carving knife in his hand, and then started flying left and right on the wood in his hand.
Because he is relatively strong, carving a relatively hard mahogany such as chicken wing wood is not as difficult as ordinary people.
Seeing his actions, the four old men standing nearby looked at each other, and their faces showed surprise and surprise.
However, they all watched quietly without making any noise.
As time passed little by little, the wood in Liu Dong's hands was taking shape little by little. At this time, everyone was attracted by the wood carvings he carved.
Liu Dong, who devoted all his attention to carving, unknowingly used all his carving skills. Round carving, semi-circular carving, line carving, openwork carving, and even micro carving. At this time, everyone began to pay more and more attention.
The more he puts into the works in his hands.
Soon, as Liu Dong's works gradually took shape, everyone's faces began to show more and more surprise, and many people even began to show admiration on their faces.
After Liu Dong put the six seal characters of "Taiyi Forty-Six Sages" on it, he put down the carving knife in his hand, with a look of satisfaction on his face.
The next step was polishing. Next to it was the gauze used by Uncle Long to polish the furniture. Liu Dong took it over and started polishing his work bit by bit.
Then, after more than half an hour passed, when Liu Dong put down the gauze, the work in his hands became alive.
"Pah! Pah...!"
I don’t know who applauded first, and then everyone applauded enthusiastically. Everyone looked at Liu Dong with admiration and admiration in their eyes, even the four old men were no exception. And Uncle Long
There was a deep sense of relief in his eyes.
That look in his eyes was like looking at the children he had taught for many years, finally growing up and achieving success.
At this time, Mr. Kang was the first to step forward and took the work carved by Liu Dong in his hands. Seeing this, everyone gathered around him.
"What a 'Taiyi Forty-six Sages', with superb sword skills, smooth lines, and different characters, but they are all lifelike! Okay, that's great!" Mr. Kang nodded in admiration.
"Well, it is indeed very clever!" Everyone nodded.
At this moment, Liu Dong's work has carved all the images of the forty-six woodcarving masters here today, including Uncle Long, and almost everyone's costumes are different.
Wu Chengqing, the image of Mr. Wu is Gao Guanbo dressed as a Confucian scholar, standing next to a crane with its neck raised and wings spread. Mr. Tang of Tanghe is dressed as a traveler, holding a wine gourd in his hand, half leaning and half walking on the rocks on one side.
Followed by a lying tiger, Kang Junli Kang Lao, dressed as a monk, holding a rosary in his hand, and lying behind him was a lion. Lu Peien, Lu Lao dressed as a Taoist, holding a whisk in his hand, stood a unicorn beside him. Then
Uncle Long was dressed normally, holding a book and a ruler in his hands, but he was sitting cross-legged on a crouching dragon. Next to him, standing at the tail of the dragon, was Liu Dong with a respectful expression.
Five old men are in the center of the entire sculpture, surrounded by forty-one jade carvers with different images. Next to it is a tall willow tree, and outside the willow tree is a winding river, which flows from the mountains in the distance.
, the entire scene was carved by Liu Dong using perspective techniques, making the scene particularly grand.
Moreover, Liu Dong used micro-carving techniques in many places, which was very detailed, and he also used semi-circular carvings for the characters, which are more three-dimensional and more vivid than line carvings!
Liu Dong used the original wood grain of wenge wood to depict the patterns of characters, the hair of animals, and the ripples of rivers, and then slightly processed them to make them appear more vivid and natural.
It can be said that this wood carving work, which took Liu Dong more than three hours to complete, is also the best interpretation of the peak level of his wood carving skills.
"I really didn't expect that Mr. Liu has such high wood carving skills at such a young age. He is much better than when we were young!" Kang Junli handed the wood carving in his hand to Mr. Tang He next to him, with sighs in his words.
said.
"Well, that's right! But judging from this wood carving, Mr. Liu's wood carving skills have reached the peak of 'technique', and going up to the realm of 'Tao'! We also only made it when we were forty years old.
You touched the doorstep and broke through when you were fifty, and now you are just getting a first glimpse of the door. Mr. Liu is only twenty years old now. I am afraid that in another ten years, or even shorter, you will surpass us!"
Facing Wu Chengqing and Mr. Wu's compliments, Liu Dong looked shy. However, in comparison, he was more curious about the realm of "skills" and "Tao" in wood carving that Mr. Wu just mentioned. No one had ever mentioned it to him before.
These.
Noticing the doubt on Liu Dong's face, Wu Chengqing roughly understood what he was thinking. He couldn't help but turned to Uncle Long and asked: "Shopkeeper Long, didn't you tell him before?"
"Haha, I never said that! I didn't expect Xiaodong's wood carving skills to improve so quickly. If I had known earlier, I would have told him!"
After a pause, Uncle Long turned to look at Liu Dong and said: "Xiaodong, I was afraid that you would be too ambitious, so I never mentioned anything about the realm of wood carving to you. But I believe that you should be aware of it.
Everything you know!"
"Actually, whether it is carving, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, or even doing anything, there is a difference between technique and Tao. If we must distinguish between these two realms, we can use an idiom instead!"
“The finishing touch!”
"In the realm of craftsmanship, it can only be said that you have reached the peak of carving technology. No matter how well you do it, the jade carving does not have its own thoughts and cannot convey a spirit to people. It can only be a dead object! If
When your wood carving skills are elevated to the realm of Tao, you will reduce complexity into simplicity, just like our traditional Chinese painting masters. Sometimes just a few strokes will turn out to be a beautiful painting with profound meaning and rich content!
And this is also the realm we will pursue in the future!”
After listening to Uncle Long's words, Liu Dong fell into deep thought. At this moment, he thought of Zheng Banqiao, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. His ink bamboo paintings had only a few strokes, but they conveyed a character that would rather break than bend.
There is also Xu Beihong's horse. There is not much writing, but it reveals a kind of wild unruly and unruly!
After thinking for a long time, Liu Dong raised his head and asked: "Uncle Long, how can we reach the realm of 'Tao'!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!