Chapter 128: The Moyu Brand
Xie Bin listened to Wang Xinzhi's words, deliberately made a face, pretended to be angry and said: "What is this called, how much should it be, otherwise I can put down my things and leave." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Wang Xinzhi only hesitated: "Since Brother Xie said so, let's make up a whole number, 50,000 yuan." ”
50,000 pieces, which is about the same as Xie Bin's own estimate, these two stones are relatively good here, but among all the Shoushan stones, they are actually only middle-grade materials. Although the price of Shoushan stone has been relatively stable, and the difference between height and height is not as large as that of jade such as bloodstone jade, the high-priced stone can also be bought for hundreds of thousands or millions or even higher.
In fact, the reason why this Shoushan stone is not as famous as the chicken blood stone Tian Huangshi is that in Xie Bin's view, the main reason is that the appearance and texture of Shoushan stone are not pure enough. For example, bloodstone and Tianhuangshi, the purer the sè and texture, the better, and the method of measuring value is relatively simple.
But this Shoushan stone is different, ordinary people don't even know how to measure its value, because its face is more mixed, and the texture is not as pure as Tian Huangshi, so only those who know how can really estimate his value, and ordinary people can only stare at Shoushan stone dryly, and they can't even touch the trick, unlike bloodstone, which can distinguish the good from the most intuitive angle.
If it weren't for the fact that Xie Bin didn't have the right bloodstone material in his hand, he wouldn't have chosen Shoushan stone, after all, he was more familiar with bloodstone in comparison, and he had carved a few bloodstone seals by hand.
After swiping the card, saying goodbye to Wang Xinzhi, Xie Bin returned to his villa, closed the door, and began to design the drawings. Xie Bin does not need to prepare jadeite objects, but nephrite jade and Shoushan stone should each prepare one, and leave another Shoushan stone to use at the exchange meeting, which should be enough.
In addition, Xie Bin also wanted to try his newly learned drawing design to see how it worked. Speaking of which, Xie Bin still mastered the basic drawing skills, especially the hand-drawing, which is not very difficult for him, but he is still lacking in dyeing, and in the case of computer drawing, the ability to process details needs to be improved.
But making a drawing is a thing, easy to learn and difficult to jing, especially if you want to design a Jing ingenious work, in addition to the foundation of drawing, you must have something in mind. People often say that being confident, what is confident, is to have something in the head, and then to be able to level the ground and make bamboo waves, in order to design good drawings, in order to make good works.
Xie Bin's head is naturally not empty, in so many years of carving career, he has seen a lot of things, and there are goods in his stomach, but he thought about it and felt that he still asked Tan Rui to help make one, and the sketch made by Tan Rui during the last interview was very creative, and the details were handled very well.
Tan Rui quickly answered the phone, "Brother Xie, are you free?" Do you want to start a course? ”
Xie Bin said embarrassedly: "No, I'm looking for you for something else, do you have free time now?" ”
"Yes, what's the matter with Brother Xie?"
Xie Bin was not verbose, and said straight to the point: "I want to make two works, and I want to find you to make a design drawing, how about it?" ”
Tan Rui smiled: "This is a little bit of a problem, no problem, do you have any requirements?" ”
"No, whatever you want to design, wait until I send you the size and shape of the raw materials, you can try to get it yourself, and you can make it in five days, right?"
"Five days," Tan Rui pondered, "yes, as long as it's not too complicated." ”
"Okay, I'll leave it to you," Xie Bin hung up the phone after speaking, took a few photos of the smaller Shoushan stone, and then passed it to Tan Rui.
He himself picked a piece of black jade, then cut it into slices, and prepared to carve the plaque by himself. Although the price of black jade is relatively low, the high-quality black jade still has a very high collection value and play value, especially the good quality black jade, which looks black and black like a charcoal block, but after making it, it has the sè and feel of jade.
Now the jade carving brands sold on the market are generally machine-carved, which looks very jing, but in fact, the value is really not high, if you don't know how to play casually, if you investigate it carefully, it is a trivial matter to spend unjust money, which is very aggrieved after being deceived.
Xie Bin made a brand, so naturally he would not follow the trend to carve a simple picture and then engrave two lines of poetry and quotes. If you want to suppress those people, you naturally have to show real skills.
The shape of the brand itself is placed there, but the expansion xing is not strong, but there are many articles to do in it, and more importantly, to show their unique craftsmanship on a small brand, which is the key.
The brand is engraved with landscapes, this situation is not nothing, but because of the tools, most of those landscape paintings are relatively simple, and the landscape paintings drawn are much worse, especially the general carving masters, may know more or less calligraphy and painting, but there are few people jingtong, when carving, most of them can only do the likeness, but can not do the god-like.
And this is Xie Bin's strength, because whether it is calligraphy or painting, his skills are very solid, and when used in carving, he has a little more charm than ordinary masters, for example, the same landscape painting, Xie Bin can transfer the taste of painting on paper to sculpture, and others are relatively poor.
Someone looked at the classification of the carvings, how did they divide them in such detail? There are Dongyang wood carvings, Fujian wood carvings, cháo wood carvings, Suzhou carvings, Dongyang wood carvings, boxwood carvings, cháo state gold lacquer wood carvings, Suzhou carvings, Hubei wood carvings, Qufu Kai wood carving bamboo carvings, Zhejiang spring bamboo carvings, Shaoyang spring bamboo carvings, and so on?
Aren't these all wood carvings? Why is it so finely divided? This is the way of inheritance of carving. Most of the ordinary carving masters do not have a high level of education, but just follow the master to learn from practice bit by bit. What to learn? Learn what they use in the woodcarving process.
For example, Dongyang wood carving, the lines are full and smooth, the craftsmanship is beautiful, and the expressions of the characters are rich, but these masters only learn these knowledge since childhood, and they will only learn this type of carving method, and if they want to change the style, they have to learn from scratch, which is very difficult, because what is the basis of carving? It is also the perception and understanding of art skills and traditional culture.
However, people who really have art skills and a deep understanding of traditional culture rarely do carving, so wood carving skills often have strong limitations and biases in the process of inheritance. There are even carvers who only carve figures and flowers on wood, and do not draw them on paper, because they have not learned it.
Carving masters are not philanthropists, and after receiving apprentices, they do not let them receive education in art and traditional culture from scratch, but directly learn carving. In the long run, the carving industry has been divided into so many schools, each with its own strengths.
Is there a master who can bring the various genres together? Yes, and not less. But it is not easy to come up with such a person, first of all, you must have a strong art foundation, secondly, you must have a good art foundation, secondly, you must have the opportunity to contact and understand Jinghua of various genres.
This was unimaginable in the past era, those who had art skills were respected intellectuals, and the carvings were made by some low-class craftsmen, plus the brooms of various schools were self-cherished, so it was quite difficult to say that it was quite difficult to come up with a master who returned to the sect.
In this era, the carving craft is even more lonely, there was a legacy before, and the current inheritance is about to be broken. That is, Xie Bin, is blessed, there is such a grandfather, who taught him such a skill, not only has a deep foundation in Chinese painting, but also has a very deep understanding of traditional culture, and at the same time he has been playing sculpture for more than ten years.
Therefore, compared with ordinary carving masters, Xie Bin not only has the advantage of ability, but also his own foundation is also very good, and these wood carving works that look similar are different in the eyes of connoisseurs, otherwise how could Xie Bin, who used to set up a stall, get into the eyes of Old Man Wang? Why did the old man Liu Yidao think that Xie Bin was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang at the beginning?
Just because Xie Bin unconsciously integrated the charm of his Chinese painting in the carving process, his works are obviously higher than the average carving master, and this is similar to the atmosphere of the literary style in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
At this time, Xie Bin had the help of his abilities, and he was naturally like a tiger with wings, and a simple black jade brand could also make an extraordinary feeling. Moreover, when carving this black jade brand, the technique of porcelain engraving was also used, so that the landscape painting on the black jade brand was more expressive, as if it was moved from paper to black jade.
Xie Bin's carved landscape painting lines are concise but sè Ze renders invading moisture, which is naturally not enough, and a portrait is engraved on the reverse side, which is also depicted in the form of ink painting, and then engraved a poem by Su Shi
Looking ahead to the Nine Immortals Mountain in Ma'er.
Bi Liantian. Evening clouds are idle.
The high platform in the city is really transcendent.
Don't make a hurry to disperse,
Tonight, Yue Chanjuan.
The creek gulls and herons are quietly fisted.
Go Pian. Light a light cigarette.
Personnel are bleak, looking back on his years.
Don't forget to make the song laugh,
Under the weeping willows, in front of the dwarf locust.
This poem is quite appropriate to the situation, carved in smooth lines, and there are traces of cutting during the carving between the lines, or it is smooth and dripping, or it is broken and connected, which is specially left by Xie Bin, and the poem and the words are more expressive, and the poems and the landscape characters on both sides are completely kneaded together.
Of course, this is not the end, Xie Bin found a thick line between the lines of the yin line on the side of the landscape painting, and engraved his seal along the line. This seal is naturally not the general size, but micro-engraved, three seal characters plus a few strokes of the pattern is a quarter of the size of a grain of rice, neatly hidden in the painting.
Even people with good eyesight can't see what is carved inside, and if you don't use a magnifying glass, you really think it's a flaw such as a hole in the jade. The seal is Xie Bin's first seal "Xie Shiyin", the shape and handwriting are the same as the original seal, but it has shrunk I don't know how many times.