Drink water to quench your thirst.

Qin Huai coated the wax model with a layer of high-temperature resistant material, which can solidify quickly, and the thickness is like a film, which can rub every detail of Qin Huai's carving, but behind such excellent performance, there is also a high price.

However, for craftsmen who strive for excellence, the allure of this kind of material is fatal, and Qin Huai is certainly no exception.

After the material was evenly applied, and after it was solidified, Qin Huai slowly increased the coating until the coating had as many as twenty layers and was sure that the coating could withstand the gravity of the copper water, and then stopped applying.

Put.

Allow it to solidify naturally.

Next, Qin Huai melted the beeswax from the wax model, leaving only an empty shell in the shape of an eagle.

In fact, this is the lost wax method invented by the ancient Chinese 2,000 years ago and used for 2,000 years, but it was used by the Mi people in the 20th century to apply for a patent.

In science:

Because the lost-wax method is very advanced, it can be forged parts or bronzes to a staggering degree, so the parts and components of modern aviation aircraft are all forged by the lost-wax method.

In terms of artistic sculpture:

The lost-wax method casts bronze, which is very intricate and exquisitely shaped.

However, the use of the lost wax method to manufacture bronze ware, need to go through wax molding, molding, embryo repair, remodeling, trimming, casting, polishing, grinding, surface treatment and other dozens of manual processes, each step is interlocking, but if one of the steps is not connected, it is a failure.

Therefore, the yield of lost-wax copper casting is extremely low.

The use of the lost wax method to forge bronze ware requires sitting down quietly, and it is also a great test of the artist's patience and heart.

And in Qin Huai's work hall, there has never been the word impetuous.

Every carving knife, every corner, every drawing, and even every grain of dust in the workshop is full of calm, concentration, and bated breath.

That's what an artist is.

The life and quality of the artist can be passed on to the works as well as to the surrounding utensils.

The melted copper water jug was held out with a tool clamp, and Qin Huai tilted the liquid that had burned red and shiny slightly and poured it into the abrasive.

The scorching red liquid seemed to be a domesticated small snake, obediently drawing a parabola, from the small hole, at an extremely uniform speed, slowly entering the abrasive.

remembers that Ouyang Xiu has an article "Oil Seller".

It depicts a highly skilled oil drinker.

This master can 'take a gourd and put it on the ground, cover his mouth with money, Xu drain it with a ladle, and enter it from the money hole, and the money is not wet. ’

Meaning, the oil seller covered the mouth of the gourd with a copper coin, scooped the oil with a wooden spoon and poured it, so that the oil could slide through the small hole, but it did not touch the coin.

The same is true for Qin Huai.

Although the reserved hole was only the size of a soybean, Qin Huai's arm was suspended in the air, and he didn't even tremble for half a minute.

A column of copper water, which remained the same diameter from beginning to end, gently slid in from the small hole, without a single splash.

This process is actually extremely difficult.

First of all, the speed of pouring the copper liquid should not be too fast, and the speed of the copper liquid will not be reached, and the copper water will be poured too fast, which will lead to the chaos of the copper water in the mold and the lack of heaviness.

Secondly, the speed of pouring the molten copper should not be too slow, dragging the mud and water will cause bubbles in the molten copper in the mold, and even the hollow area.

Pouring liquid copper is a technical task.

Eyesight, foresight, intuition, and patience are all indispensable.

When it is not completely solidified, the weight of the copper liquid above, with the fluidity of the liquid and the physical characteristics of thermal expansion and contraction, will press the copper water layer below tightly.

It should be noted that the quality of the manufactured appliances is completely different at different levels of technology.

It is not an ethereal metaphysics, but a craftsman who relies on his ingenuity to perfect and sublimate one after another details that are not noticed, and finally stack up qualitative changes that can be seen by the naked eye.

It's like a girl with only mediocre facial features.

If the eyes are a little bigger, the eyelashes are a little longer, the bridge of the nose is a little more three-dimensional, and the cheeks are a little thinner...... Countless small changes can create a beautiful woman who captivates the country and the city.

The existence of craftsmen can turn 'ordinary' into 'alluring country and city'!

Gradually, the scorching copper water spread to the small hole, and Qin Huai stopped.

Place the eagle on the windowsill and let it cool and solidify naturally.

Qin Huai's desire to create a heart cooled down a little.

But.

The desire to create is still strong.

Qin Huai was like a curious child, excited, and his mind was full of strange ideas.

In addition, there is still some red copper water left in the container.

Qin Huai spread out a white tile and gently smeared it with a layer of heat-resistant material.

The old people on the banks of the Qinhuai River can paint with sugar water, why can't Qin Huai paint with copper water?

Art knows no form.

Although the copper painting tastes hot.

Thinking of this, Qin Huai's eyebrows raised slightly, art, pleasing others and yourself, not every master's work will be shocking, a master, shocking works are often only a handful, more are graffiti paintings.

There has never been a requirement to say what standards should be met for each piece of work.

Just like the later wood carvings of Qin Huai, the traditional skills town and the wood carving group of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang have never been among the grandmaster-level works.

But Qin Huai didn't force it.

Of course.

Qin Huai felt that nine times out of ten, the system secretly raised the standard.

Otherwise, the extraordinary bearing of these two works can enter the ranks of grandmaster-level works.

[I don't carry this pot, whether it is the Terracotta Warriors and Horses wood carving group of Qin Shi Huang, or the traditional skills town, although it is already a divine product, but there is no breakthrough creativity like the nuclear boat, the green jade kui dragon pattern tea set, and the Taiji figure jade carving. 】

The system jumped out and defended.

[And wood carving is not suitable for creative carving, you can do that step is already talented, unless there is a heavenly divine wood for you to carve, or one day the underground excavated a well-preserved tree jade hundreds of millions of years ago. 】

Qin Huai's jaw was bowed.

He really wished he could come across such good material.

Although Qin Huai does not deliberately pursue high-quality materials, high-quality materials are still very attractive to Qin Huai.

Of course.

The system said that a completely well-preserved tree jade can be called a rare but unattainable.

I'm afraid it's rare to see in hundreds of millions of years.

Qin Huai just smiled.

Under his hands, with a precise and calm technique, the outflow of copper liquid is controlled, which is small and large, rapid and slow, suddenly turning, and suddenly drawing arcs......

"Baba, Baba~"

Shang Ya carried the two small ones and pushed the door open with her feet, and the voices of the two little ones with a crying voice came.

Especially Xiaoya, crying so miserably.

"These two guys stuck to you. ”

Shang Ya sighed helplessly, at first it was Xiao Ya who cried, and then Xiao Rucai cried with her, and finally she couldn't control it, so she could only hold them and take a look at Qin Huai's father.

"I'm painting copper, it's a bit dangerous, don't let them get too close. ”

Qin Huai's painting came to an end, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and the speed of painting was still not in a hurry.

The two little ones saw Qin Huai's father, and unexpectedly stopped crying, staring at Qin Huai's father with cute and shining eyes to pull out lines on the tiles with red molten slurry.

Those lines form a copper-colored pencil drawing, in the painting, Qin Huai's father and Shang Ya are holding two small ones, and the two little ones are standing in the middle softly, with tiger heads and tiger heads.

"Baba, Mama, Yaya, brother......"

Xiaoya recognized the characters in the picture, clapped her little hands, babbling and shouting, so excited that she couldn't do it.

Qin Huai put away the tools to avoid hurting the two little ones, so he grabbed the two little ones and let them hang on their bodies one left and one right.

The two little ones tilted their heads to look at the bronze painting, their eyes flashing with curiosity.

"It's so well drawn. ”

Shang Ya stood in front of the bronze painting and looked carefully, Qin Huai's father has painted portraits of the two little ones every day for the past year, which can be described as a thick accumulation.

makes the little figure drawn by Qin Huai's father come to life.

The so-called lifelike is not the realism of the skin color and clothing, but the vividness and naturalness of the human body contours and the demeanor of the characters.

In short, it captures the essence.

Even if you don't need to depict the details, you can see it at a glance for the little ones who don't know much.

That's strength!