Introduction to jade carving

1, carved jade. Generally speaking, there are two kinds, one is mechanical adjustment plus manual repair, and the other is pure manual carving.

2. Let's talk about hand carving. Generally, the overall material of hand-carved jadeite is definitely good, but there will be some defects more or less, which requires jade carvers to design and create according to the material. It can be said that a pleasing jade carving work is the common achievement of materials and sculptors. The following contents draw lessons from some materials of Master Zhang Bingguang and some top jade sculptors.

3, jade design carving, not simply drawing a picture, and then carving, the fuller, more complex, the more three-dimensional carving. In the process of creation, it is still necessary to leave artistic conception, which is as vivid as ink painting and gives people room for imagination. In this process, the quality of jadeite is sublimated and qualitatively changed by adjusting seeds, moisture and color by using carving techniques. It can be said that the jadeite material in the eyes of ordinary people is completely different from that in the eyes of jade carvers.

4. Seed adjustment is the carving process, and the germplasm of jadeite is collected to unify and improve the texture of jadeite.

5. Water adjustment is to adjust the permeability and moisture of jade, so that jade has the moisture and luster of jewelry.

6. In high-grade jadeite, seed adjustment and water adjustment are similar. The granularity, density, transparency and luster of jadeite are harmoniously unified by carving, showing a unique sense of design and exquisite beauty.

7. Adjusting seeds and transferring water is not necessarily digging to remove cotton, but cotton can also be used well.