Can anyone talk about the technique of root carving?

1, root material selection. Generally speaking, Dongzheng Root and Carved Root have a wide range of materials, and most of them use hard miscellaneous wood. All kinds of trees with hard and hard wood can be made, such as elm, sandalwood, jujube and boxwood. These roots must be collected in the mountains or bought by farmers in the mountains.

2, finishing. After the root material is selected, the creator should make clear what shape the root material is suitable for, and then simply trim the root material. Remove unnecessary parts and express the root roughly according to the idea. Some long branches should be removed, but don't remove branches casually, so as not to bring artificial regret to modeling creation.

Step 3 peel. There are many ways to peel the roots, such as soaking and peeling, tool cutting and so on. It is convenient to soak and peel, and will not destroy wood grain; Tool cutting method is to cut off the surface of root wood with props, which is slow and easy to destroy wood grain. This method is generally not recommended.

4. The root is dry. The roots must be dried before they can be made, which is convenient for trimming and polishing. Therefore, the drying process should be mainly in the shade, and the roots should not be exposed to the sun, otherwise the roots will crack and affect the quality of root carving. If you want the root carving to achieve the antique effect, you can use the method of smoking and baking in plant ash.

5, root art modeling. Root art modeling is a process of conceiving, cutting, trimming and combining the collected roots. Using natural roots skillfully, without large-scale intentional carving, the original natural shape is maintained, and the modeling of figures, animals, article pendants or calligraphy is achieved, which really makes people feel realistic after appreciation.

6. root carving. Root carving is an artificial sculpture made of the shape and materials of roots, mostly figures and animals, with vivid and touching images. Generally speaking, people who do root carving must meet several conditions: they have artistic painting skills; Understand the structure of human body and animals; Rich in imagination. For root carving modeling, in order to make up for the shortage of nature, appropriate carving parts can be used to make the finishing point.

7. After the root carving is formed, it should be post-processed to make up for the deficiency, which can be partially connected or combined with multiple pieces. Before connection, it should be polished smooth. According to the volume and structure of the root, coarse grinding with assorted files, flat files and semi-circular files, and then fine grinding with wood paper to achieve the effect. After the root carving is formed, it can be combined, generally connected with wood glue, or it can be fixed by drilling holes with wood screws first, and then filled with glue to achieve a firm and reliable effect.

8. draw pictures. Root carving usually adopts varnish anticorrosion or waxing on the floor. If you want to achieve the antique effect, you can brush a layer on the surface after soaking with paint chips, and then polish or wax with varnish after drying. The root carving works made by this method are too bright, so many people question it. At present, some people have put forward the idea of spraying or waxing shoe polish directly through experiments, and the effect is also good