What is a micro sculpture?

Micro-carving, as its name implies, is a kind of carving technology famous for its exquisiteness. Micro carving can be divided into three-dimensional carving and plane painting and calligraphy carving. Plane painting and calligraphy carving is also called "micro-carving", which is concave and belongs to the category of "female carving" and "shallow carving", while three-dimensional carving refers to "round carving", "relief carving" and "general carving", which belongs to the category of male carving. Next, let's take a look at the raiders! What is a micro sculpture?

Micro-sculpture is the most exquisite and smallest handicraft in China traditional arts and crafts. Micro-sculpture is a kind of pocket art with the essence of China culture. It is a branch of carving technology and a school of micro-carving. Micro-carving generally refers to fine round carving, relief carving and through carving. The contents displayed are mostly similar in nature. Micro-carving is prominent and full of three-dimensional sense. It can even be carved on ivory pieces, bamboo pieces or a few millimeters of hair, and its works can only be seen with a magnifying glass or microscope, so it has been called "stunt" in past dynasties.

Characteristics of micro-carving

1. Micro-carving pays special attention to the selection of materials, and its stone texture requires absolute purity, and there is no room for any sand grid or half a crack, because half a sand spot may destroy a beautiful painting or more than 10 Chinese characters.

2. The micro-carving knife is also a very thin knife, which should be sharp and sharp.

You must have a specialized knowledge of calligraphy and Chinese painting, and you can only "carve" and "carve" when carving.

4. Hold your breath on the spot, concentrate your thoughts and do it in one go.

5. The knife should be steady, accurate and firm. The micro-carving knife is a pen, and the skill is insufficient. Because of a little out of control, the knife is not satisfactory. We must pay attention to the effect of calligraphy when matching micro-engraved inscriptions on micro-carved works. Those who see the big and look ugly have skewed characters, uneven lines, inaccurate paintings and unbalanced matching, which creators should avoid.

6. We should grasp the artistic effect of line changes produced by tools and stones. Only in this way can calligraphy and knife-cutting achieve perfect unity.

What are the commonly used tools for micro-carving?

1. The working lamp with magnifying glass can be divided into low power and high power according to the fineness of micro-engraving.

2, high-power microscope, carving smaller works, such as small ivory micro-carving and hair carving.

3. There are various forms of carving knives and special courses. grinding wheel

4. Yin Chuang. It is best to have two kinds, one is slightly larger and hardwood; One can be smaller and the wood softer. And equipped with small wooden strips.

5. Small steel ruler, 2H or 3H pencil, homemade ivory toothpick and small writing brush (such as purple laurel).

6. Various types of sandpaper 600-5000, grindstone, toothpaste, absorbent cotton and anhydrous alcohol.

7. Magnifier with different multiples and sizes.

8. Stationery and high-quality Chinese painting pigments.