Holding method of knife in sealing and cutting knife method

Knife is the main tool of seal cutting, and seal cutting pays attention to holding the knife, just like writing, playing the piano and fingering in writing and painting. Irregular methods often become obstacles to the exertion of skills. The seal cutter looks like a handle, which needs fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders and even the whole body to operate. In order to coordinate and concentrate the strength of these parts, it is very important to hold the knife correctly. The effective way of holding the knife can make the meat cutter run freely in the hand, and the depth of the knife can be adjusted at will, which is convenient for smooth and agile knife transportation. There are two common ways to hold a knife. The handle leans to one side and enters the stone at the angle of a knife. The fingers are solid, the palms are weak, and the five fingers and wrists push the knife hard to punch up and down, left and right. Among them, the horizontal fist inclines outward with the knife, and the right corner of the blade is inserted into the stone. When transporting the knife, the middle finger pushes the knife from the right outside to the left. Use the middle finger to dial the knife for vertical punching, and move the knife up and down to punch holes. Thrust is to hold the handle with thumb and forefinger, push the middle finger backward, put the hand on the palm, and push it forward from bottom to top. When using the punching knife method, the ring finger and the little finger play the role of positioning, resisting printing, controlling strength and preventing the knife from deviating.

The punching method is suitable for carving white characters, and the punching strength should be moderate and even. If the force is too strong or the knife is too deep, you will find it difficult to carry the knife and you can't move freely. Too little or uneven force, shallow penetration: then the carved line marks will float and be very delicate. Punching is easy to show the smooth brushwork of the seal, and the lines are vigorous and straight. Knives are applied to both sides of the seal stroke, and the solid line of the seal stroke is carved with two or more knives. Zhu is an outline carved along the two sides of the stroke, and the base outside the stroke is scraped off by cutting and stamping, so that the printed stroke protrudes on the printing surface. The knife for carving ink requires smooth air permeability and even lines. Zhu Wen's successful silhouette is loach back, and he uses a pen in the calligraphy center to produce an artistic effect that penetrates the back of the paper and is full.

Carving a white seal with double knives is to cut off the solid line of the stroke along the inside of the printed stroke, leaving a flat printing surface and concave stroke lines. White carving requires uniform and neat force, and the printed outline is clear and smooth. Each stroke of the double knife method needs to be engraved twice or more times with a knife. The operation mode is to fix the cutter position and the direction of conveying the cutter, rotate the Yin Shi, and basically apply the cutter to the right side of the line. Finally, trim off the dovetail and stubble left at the beginning and end of the line with a knife. Fingerprint strokes are completed with single-line tool marks, which are used to carve fine white characters. Use a knife at the actual position of the sealing stroke. Single-knife method can not only carve one knife at a time, but also carve with heavy knives. However, all knives should move in the same direction, and multiple knife marks cannot be displayed. Single-knife carving requires that the knife be hidden and healthy, which constitutes a natural unadorned effect.

Knife is the expression of the formal beauty of seal cutting. Skilled knife-cutting, able to use the knife freely and freely, has achieved dignified starting and putting pen to paper, smooth knife-touching and smart turning, which definitely and accurately expresses the rhythm beauty and modeling beauty of printed lines, and at the same time, it has formal beauty with proper knife-cutting. Like flowing, rough, mottled and metallurgical marks produced by different knives. The successful knife method is to look at the pen meaning in the knife, and the pen contains the rhyme of the knife. Knife and pen don't hurt each other. Rhyme is meaningful and harmonious.

Summary:

Straight feed method: straight front enters the stone, and the knife axis is slightly angled with the stone surface.

Single-entry straight knife method: the side enters the stone, and one knife looks at a stroke.

Double-entry straight knife method: the side front enters the stone, and the two knives are in a row, and the directions are opposite.

Double-knife method: when the side edge hits the stone and one knife cannot be carved in a row, carve another knife in the same direction.

Cutting method: the front or side of the stone, push forward.

Knife cutting method: the lateral front enters the stone and cuts down. There is a slight push forward.

Knife sewing method: the side front enters the stone and rubs forward.

Later knife method: the lateral front enters the stone, with heavy force, and moves slowly after a little retreat.

Knife dance: the side enters the stone, one left and one right, echoing forward.

Light knife method: the front edge or side edge is inserted into the stone, and the force is light and shallow.

Burying knife method: the front enters the stone, the blade presses down and clings to the stone surface.

Flat knife method: the blade is flat on the stone surface and the bottom is leveled.

Knife-keeping method: keeping the meaning and not keeping the shape, so there is no knife to speak of, only used for the virtual pen at the turning point.

After explanation, we know that the above thirteen methods of using a knife really don't have much mystery, but the flexible use of knife and fist, as well as the difference between the front and the side.

Dressing and cutting knife method

In the process of carving, if there is something unsatisfactory, you can modify and sort it out by using multiple knives or mending knives. When the original carving is unsatisfactory, multiple knives are forced to add knives to make up for it, or the same carving is done when the force is insufficient, so that the effect of one knife is perfect. It should be noted that the method of adding the back knife is the same as the original knife, so as not to show the traces of the back knife. Knife mending is to adjust and modify the places where the performance is not sufficient or the skills are not ideal when the work is completed. The knife method of mending the knife can be different from the original meat cutter method, and the knife methods such as picking, scraping, cutting and spinning are used in an eclectic way. The purpose of compound knife and repair knife is to keep improving and avoid complications.

It is a way to learn from the mottled and incomplete beauty of ancient seals and increase the aesthetic feeling of the seal surface. For example, white printed cloth, if the surface is overall and looks dull, can be poked with a knife corner, and the bell will show a breathable feeling after printing; Zhu's strokes are complex and dense, and a line can be broken or weak in order to be loose and smart; Or it will be too square and too tight, and the corners will be damaged, which will increase the natural and vivid interest. "Shanzhai" should be an artistic treatment based on the overall planning of composition and printing artistic effect. It seems that if you don't control the material mechanism and the ability to exert power moderately, you will fall short and be self-defeating, so don't abuse it when you are not sure.