Butterfly is a common pollinator insect, many species of plant reproduction are inseparable from butterflies, for plant germplasm resources to make a great contribution. The beautiful dance posture of butterflies when pollinating, the various colors and markings on the wings, are deeply loved by people, butterflies appear early in traditional culture, philosophical Zhuang Zhou Meng butterfly, Liang Zhuhua butterfly in love story, and countless works of art such as calligraphy and painting.
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The intricate patterns and complex colors on the butterfly wings are a unique work of art in themselves, and the butterfly wing painting is to use the uniqueness of the butterfly wings to create art. Butterfly wing painting is a unique chinese painting, as early as the Ming Dynasty has appeared, belongs to a kind of arts and crafts, with natural butterfly wings as the material, the selection of different butterfly wings, the use of butterfly wings of the natural beauty, silk velvet texture, different angles of the luster and natural pattern texture, after carefully conceived and clever collage, the use of sparse, dense, thick, thin techniques to paste the butterfly wings into a painting, with a special texture and beauty, placed in the bright place, dazzling.
There are more than 30 hand-made processes for butterfly wing painting, which mainly need to go through the process of softening, spreading wings, drying and so on. Since butterfly wings need to be rigorously selected before they can be adopted, it takes years to make a large butterfly wing painting that uses hundreds of thousands of butterflies. There are more than 1,200 kinds of butterflies in China, and in addition to the national protected varieties and rare species that cannot be used to make butterfly wing paintings, there are about 500 kinds of ordinary butterflies that can be used.
The following takes the butterfly wing painting "Blossoms" as an example to introduce the production process of butterfly wing painting in detail.
Step 1: Material preparation
The materials used to make butterfly wing paintings are: a variety of processed butterfly wings, white latex, forceps, scissors, cardboard, drawing board, etc.
Part II: Ideation
According to the size and style of the work on the drawing board, determine the height of the vase, the width of the bottle mouth, the position of the bottom of the bottle, the top of the flower mass, the widest part of the flower group, and several other key points, and you can use a pencil on the drawing board to fix the point or lightly stroke the line drawing.
Part Three: According to the idea, select the butterfly wings in different positions and pick them out for later use.
The fourth part: the production of vases part, the selection of saw butterfly hindwings, golden spotted butterfly hindwings, black juan butterfly forewings of three kinds of butterfly wings, with crane-top pink butterfly forewings to make bottle decoration.
Step 5: Make the various flower shapes of the flower group part, in order to facilitate the placement, the flowers in this part need to be made separately. The flower part adopts two techniques of flat collage and three-dimensional collage to produce flat and three-dimensional flowers, which makes the visual effect of the flower part better.
1. Use the back of the hindwings of 8 pieces of green butterflies, using the method of flat collage, paste the butterfly wings into the circular cardboard in order, make a separate flower, and set aside.
The flowers on the front of the hindwings of the green butterfly are made
The flowers on the front of the forewings of the orange-winged pink butterfly are made
A flower made of the hindwings of the crane-capped pink butterfly
The yellow-robed phoenix butterfly and the jade-spotted phoenix butterfly are combined to form a pansy flower
2. Use multi-layer three-dimensional collage method to make three-dimensional flowers. First determine the center of the flower, first paste the outermost butterfly forewing, and then according to the pattern of the jade belt butterfly hindwing, counterclockwise paste, paste a small piece of yellow butterfly wings in the center of the flower, and finally use 6 purple spotted butterfly hindwings to make the third layer.
Flowers made of the forewings of the butterfly and the hindwings of the jade-banded butterfly
Double-layered flowers made of the hindwings of sawgrain butterflies
Step 6: Place the finished flowers on top of the vase according to their size, shape and color, and complete the "Blossoms" work.
Other butterfly wing paintings