According to the introduction of the wood carving technologist, the wood carving process has a strict production process. The wood should be selected according to the characteristics of the wood. The wood should have a unique insight and pay attention to the selection of materials suitable for the works. What sculptors pay most attention to is the carving technique, that is, the author’s treatment of image and space in the creation of wood carving. This technique is mainly reflected in the carving and carving in the sense of “cutting” the materials. Only by mastering skills and accumulating experience can we achieve the ideal Dao technique that really belongs to us. Good craftsmen use traditional wood carving tools, mainly including flat knife, round knife, ring knife, triangle knife, oblique knife and other tools, instead of modern tools such as electric saw, electric drill, blade and so on. They think that modern tools are the impact of traditional carving methods, and the works created with modern tools will be stiff, godless and rigid, unable to reach the height of the works created with traditional skills. In the long-term creative career, boxwood carving craftsmen combine various characteristics of traditional wood carving to achieve exquisite conception and skillful knife technique. Their works often have a kind of natural beauty.
Galloping horses
Cultural Artifacts, Sculptures, Works of art Reproductions
Author: Nolanyang
5 x 23 x 19 cm /
2 x 9.1 x 7.5 in
Themes: Artistic Nude / Origin: Oriental and Asian Art /
Posted: january 17, 2021 / Modified: january 17, 2021