It didn't take long for a masterpiece to appear in front of everyone. Piaotian is a clever little rabbit with two eyes that seem to be turning.

Liu Tong took it, looked at it and looked at it, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and finally couldn't help but ask for it regardless of his face: "Senior, can you give me this work?" ”

Mu Gong didn't speak, and according to his character, he would definitely not let it. This rabbit is ordered by another tourist, be honest! Originally, he could have given this one to Liu Tong and carved one more by himself. However, this piece of wood was personally picked by other tourists, which means that if you want to use this material, there is no way.

At this time, a female tourist present immediately objected: "That's not good! This rabbit is mine. "When he saw this rabbit, he liked it, how could he give it to someone else?

Liu Tong was embarrassed for a moment, smiled, and didn't want to make any more unreasonable demands. The old village chief couldn't see it, and said to the wood man: "I said wood, you can carve another piece out!" It's rare for people to take a fancy to your stuff. ”

The wood man also knew that this man had bought the stump dug up in the village at a high price. I actually like that thing, but I don't have enough funds, and I'm embarrassed to take advantage of the village.

"Yes." Mu Gong nodded. Liu Tong was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly said that he would buy it at a high price. However, Mu Gong shook his head and said, "No, if you have the heart, just give me a small piece of the stump." This is the longest thing Mu Gong has said to Liu Tong.

After Liu Tong heard this, he admired it even more, and nodded hurriedly: "No problem, no problem, it's my honor for my seniors to see it, you can do as much as you want." ”

Subsequently, Mu Gong asked Liu Tong what shape of carving he wanted. Liu Tong thought for a while, and asked the wood to carve a three-star Fulushou.

Because Liu Tong asked for a relatively large carving, the wood man had to chisel the rough blank first. The rough blank is the foundation of the whole work, which summarizes all the modeling details in the conception with concise geometric shapes, and requires that there are levels, momentum, proportional coordination, stable center of gravity, and a strong sense of wholeness, and the outer and inner contours of the work are initially formed.

Hong Lao told everyone that the basic essentials of chiseling rough billet are from top to bottom, from front to back, from the surface to the inside, from shallow to deep.

"What do you mean?" Someone present asked softly. They didn't dare to speak loudly for fear of disturbing the wooden man's play.

Originally, Liu Tong had the best answer, after all, they were experts in this area, but now they are very careful to observe Mu Gong's every move, and they don't know what everyone is talking about.

Zhou Furong also had a rough understanding, so he explained to everyone: "From top to bottom, it is from the head to the heel; From front to back, it is to chisel the front body first, and then chisel the back; From the surface to the inside, it starts from the surface of the wood and peels inward layer by layer; From shallow to deep, it is to chisel the shallow place first, and then chisel the deep place. ”

"Yes, furthermore, when chiseling rough blanks, you need to pay attention to leaving leeway, just like cutting clothes, and it should be properly relaxed. As the folk jargon goes: leave the fat to be small, but the spine is thin and difficult to fatten, the inner distance should be small and not large, remember that carving is subtraction. Hong Lao smiled.

As he spoke, Mu Gong had already carved out the general outline. Immediately afterwards, it is to dig the fine billet, which is a very core work, which is related to the quality of a work, and can also see the exquisite degree of a carver's knife work.

At this stage, the volume and line of the work

The article has become clearer, so it is required that the knife technique is familiar and fluent, and it must be fully expressive. The hollowing technique in the excavation of fine billets requires a combination of longitudinal fibers to hollow out the excess parts. It is necessary to use the rib method, that is, to leave a small piece of material in the part of the work that is easy to break to make it adhere to the adjacent part, and then use the thin knife dense slice method to remove the tendon after the work is completed.

Mu Gong's knife is very fast, which is dazzling, that is, Liu Tong and other insiders, as well as Chu Jiaqiang's excellent eyesight, can see the way of each knife clearly.

Liu Tong watched from the side, sometimes showing an excited expression, sometimes frowning and puzzled, sometimes suddenly realized, sometimes puzzled, and seemed to have a thousand clues. But at this time, he still couldn't help asking. He knows that when a carver is carving, he requires a high degree of mental concentration and cannot be distracted at all, otherwise it will affect the quality of the work.

After carving, it is time to polish, polish, color, and polish the work.

Polishing is the use of fine carving and thin knife dense sheet method to repair the knife marks and chisel in the fine blank, so that the surface of the work is fine and perfect is the purpose of repairing. The knife marks are required to be clear and fine, or round, or straight, and strive to express the subtleties and textures of each part.

Polishing is according to the needs of some works, the white wood carving is rubbed with woodworking sandpaper of different thicknesses to make it fine and smooth. It is required to use coarse sandpaper first, followed by fine sandpaper. It is necessary to repeatedly polish the wood fiber in the direction until the knife marks disappear and the beautiful wood grain is displayed, and attention should be paid to keeping the contours of the work clear and the lines smooth.

These processes, especially for large carvings, are very important, and relatively small carvings do not have too high requirements.

After getting it done, Liu Tong found that it had been used for more than 20 minutes, which really shocked him. He had never seen anyone carve a work to perfection in such a short period of time. If it were him, it would have to take a day or two, or even longer.

Mu Gong asked Liu Tong to make a base by himself according to his own preferences, and he could see that Liu Tong had a certain foundation, and this matter should not be difficult for him.

The base is not only the support of the main body, but also an inseparable part of the carved modeling. Therefore, it is required that the shape and scale of the base should complement the content and form of the work. Curved and lively works can be set off by a simple and unpretentious base, while simple or solemn works can be carved on the base. In short, we should pay attention to the proportions and coordination between each other, pay attention to the mutual complement of the tone, and do not dominate the crowd.

I saw Liu Tong hesitate for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and asked Mu Tougong very sincerely: "The senior's skills are exquisite, and the younger generation admires it very much, and I want to worship the predecessor as a teacher, and I hope that the predecessor will have mercy." ”

After saying that, I really want to kneel down. Liu Tong's appearance frightened many people. Hong Lao secretly said that this guy is shrewd, no matter what he does, if he worships a good master, it will definitely benefit him immensely, if he learns half of the skills of Mu Gong, it is enough to make Liu Tong a master of carving.

Originally, Mu Gonggong was still a little hesitant, he carved it okay, but it was definitely not the material to teach others, mainly because he had no experience in this area, plus his quiet character, and he didn't know how to teach others.

At this time, the old village chief was overjoyed. This Liu Tong's identity doesn't seem to be bad, he worships the people in his village as teachers, and he will take care of Chujiazhai more or less in the future. So, hearing this, he hurriedly helped Mu Tou agree. made Mu Gong very helpless, and secretly said that this is whether you accept apprentices, or do I accept apprentices? (To be continued.) If you like this work,. )