Finished product display
splicing
Before carving, hand-drawn drawings are applied to the bones
Cow bone coloring
burnish
A wide range of production tools
When it comes to bone carving, you may ask, can bones also be carved? In fact, the art of bone carving has a long history and a long history, starting from primitive society, dating back to the Paleolithic Age about 100,000 years ago, and the excavated drilled fish bone bone pendant is called "the origin of bone carving art".
In Liuzhai Village, Wudian Town, Peony District, there is a bone carving skill inheritor named Zhao Gongfeng, who began to learn art from the age of 18 and has been in the industry for 32 years, and his bone carving peony works have been awarded gold medals at the China National Essence Exposition, the National Forest Products Fair, and the National Cultural Exposition.
Bone carvings from childhood
On March 21, the reporter walked into Zhao Gongfeng's home, and a variety of bone carved peonies came into view, and every corner was filled with various bone carved peonies, with horizontal, vertical, and hollowed out styles. Talking about bone carvings, 50-year-old Zhao Gongfeng was full of excitement on his face, and his words became endless.
"Since I was a child, under the influence of my father, I have a deep love for traditional cultural bone carving and learn this traditional skill." Zhao Gongfeng told reporters that his ancestors were craftsmen engaged in wood carving and bone carving, and the skills passed down to him were already the third generation.
In this way, under the influence of his father, Zhao Gongfeng learned to paint and carve from an early age. Zhao Gongfeng still remembers some small objects he made when he first carved on the cow bone, such as cabbage, lotus flowers, etc. He said: "I didn't expect that after making it, my relatives and friends especially liked it, and asked me for these bone appliances, and the recognition of the crowd gave me a lot of confidence and encouragement." "Since 1994, he has been preoccupied with bone carvings and has never been bored.
Innovative bone carving peony
"Caozhou peony A world." Since ancient times, peony is a business card of Heze, a cultural symbol, my creativity is to combine bone carving skills and peonies, exquisite carving to show the variety of peonies, bone carving peonies into a carrier to promote peony culture and bone carving skills. Speaking of bone carving peony creativity, Zhao Gongfeng said.
With the skillfulness of bone carving skills, Zhao Gongfeng began to dig deep into the works, and successively produced bone carved peony table screens, screens, desk ornaments, etc. However, the bone carving process is simple to say, but it is not so simple to operate in practice. It also requires a variety of skills, including painting, color matching, and a rich imagination.
The production process of bone carved peony is extremely complicated, first of all, it is necessary to select the bones of Lu Southwest cattle and desert camels, remove the excess, and then disinfect them by high temperature steaming, remove oil, and dry. It is necessary to outline the required pattern for expansion, cutting the edge, finely carved and chiseled, sending a living water mill, drug treatment, color glazing, assembling and installing dozens of processes, using traditional manual craftsmanship to finely carve and carve, a complete bone carving peony finished product, it takes several months to complete, the overall work is novel and elegant, the color is bright and gorgeous, the shape is natural and realistic, and the knife method is delicate and clear.
Inherit the art of bone carving
"In the whole carving process, the coordination of the artist's hands and eyes is tested, and if you want the peony to come to life, you need to grasp the carving strength." Zhao Gongfeng told reporters that only by mastering the skillful carving knife method can the carved peony be clearly layered, concave and convex, with a three-dimensional sense, and properly reflect the gorgeous luxury of the peony.
At present, zhao gongfeng around two young people are learning and inheriting the art of bone carving, Zhao Gongfeng also set up a bone carving peony studio at home, specializing in the use of cow bone, camel bone and other animal bones as raw materials for carving and grinding art, carving out handicrafts with peony cultural characteristics.
Zhao Gongfeng also expressed his expectations for the future: "I hope that in the future, the art of bone carving can be done well and refined, and the art of bone carving peony can be better inherited and carried forward." ”
Li Ruosheng, an all-media reporter of Heze Newspaper