Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress and an inexhaustible driving force for prosperity. What is the soul of Marble Sculpting. The soul of Marble Sculpting comes from conception. Conception refers to the ideological activities of writers and artists in the process of conceiving works, including selecting and refining genres, brewing and determining themes, thinking about the planning of character activities and event development, exploring appropriate forms of expression, etc. Conception is an affirmed world view and creative purpose constraints. This is especially true for ideas in stone carving works.
A great soul often resides in an ordinary body. Simplicity is the soul of wisdom, and length is superficial embellishment. If the soul has no definite purpose, it loses itself, for as the saying goes, everywhere is nowhere, and he who is at home everywhere has no home at home. When the soul of beauty and the appearance of beauty are harmoniously integrated, people will see that this is the perfect beauty in the world. A soul devoid of wisdom is a dead soul, and when enriched with learning it revives as rain waters a barren ground. Love is the union of two souls. Piety is not an end, but a means, a means to attain high cultivation through the pure tranquility of the soul.
Datum line: It is to knock (or cut) the bottom of the billet flat to make the work even, or skewed, or pitched up, which is a step to establish the trend of the product shape. The bottom surface is also called "datum plane". called the baseline. This is before the blank is formally chiseled and broken, according to the material shape, rock quality, and the type and content of the product to be carved, first determine the upper and lower heads, front and rear sides and basic positions to determine the bottom surface of the blank. Especially for creative works that are planned according to the shape of the stone, it is even more important to set this baseline. There are horizontal, upright, and oblique styles; there is a stable style with a narrow top and a wide bottom, a large up and a small vacant style; On the same piece of irregular stone, different positioning of the reference line will have completely different appearance trends. For example, a slightly triangular stone, different ways of placing it, will give people different feelings, or stable, or flexible, or dignified, or jumping.
Some stone original shapes are often very natural, as if the description of a certain phenomenon has been hidden in it, as long as you have rich practical experience in carving, you can arouse your imagination, set the baseline according to nature, and there may be good results. composition. This step is the keynote set by the external appearance, generalization, momentum, line, viewpoint, rhythm and rhythm of the work, which is very important. Therefore, setting the baseline is the prerequisite and direction for carving a good stone carving work.
Benchmark: It is the main part of the work, and it is the place where the theme is prominent, outstanding, key and characteristic. Now after the reference line is set, to carry out the composition and modeling, the first thing to do is to determine the "reference point" and start digging from the reference point. Make a reference point first, take it as the standard, as the center, as the backbone, and unfold and unfold in sequence.
For example, when sculpting a figure, you need to use the head of the figure, flowers as the main flower, plants such as sorghum heads, rice heads, and the number one fruit of millet, mountains and rivers as the main peak or big tree, and animals as the front end. The head of a character is the main feature of expressing thoughts, language, theme, and dynamics in a work, and it is also the standard for measuring the proportions of various parts of the human body. Therefore, the benchmark of a character is the head. If it is a group portrait, there is always a middle character who expresses the theme, the so-called protagonist, and it should be carved from the head of the protagonist.
