Brief introduction of landscape bonsai
Landscape bonsai is a landscape with mountains, stones, grass and trees arranged in pots. Rock material is the main material for landscape bonsai creation. There are many kinds of rocks, most of which are excavated from nature, and their texture, color and grain all have natural essence. When selecting materials, we should first pay attention to the natural characteristics of stone materials and determine the shape suitable for that natural landscape. If a group of sandstone with vertical and simple grain, long shape and natural outline is selected as the material of a bonsai, it is certain that these materials are most suitable for the modeling landscape with steep sword peaks and high towering heights. When selecting materials, it should be noted that the texture, type and grain of materials must be unified.
Method for make landscape bonsai
1. Knocking and cutting of mountain outline:
When we choose materials for bonsai, we should first observe the top contour of the stone, which will lead to ideas and repeated scrutiny. Whether it is hard stone or soft stone, when the outline arrangement is not obvious, it should be knocked and cut to make it undulating and rhythmic.
2, sawing and bonding:
Many times, a stone can't form a complete picture of a landscape bonsai, and multiple stones need to be combined to form a landscape. However, stone materials are generally natural and unprocessed, and must be sawed, connected and bonded according to landscape requirements. Stone can be sawed with a cutting machine or hacksaw, or hammered and leveled. Then use cement or clay to color, or use other adhesives to bond and shape.
3. The lines are strewn at random:
Generally speaking, a potted landscape needs roughly the same stone pattern, which makes the landscape picture more unified. However, due to the differences of stones themselves, it is sometimes necessary to sort out some stones with inconspicuous textures or large differences in textures on the premise of choosing natural lines with consistent textures as much as possible. Particle sorting is generally carried out by picking, digging, knocking and sawing, depending on the soft and hard properties of stone. If some textures can't be sorted out, they can be pieced together with stones with roughly the same color to form a large surface with obvious concave-convex patterns.
4. The shape and style of landscape bonsai.
Creative conception is an important part of bonsai creation. The creative conception of bonsai is actually a process of determining, conceiving and expressing artistic conception. Generally speaking, there are two expressions:
(1) Make an idea first, and then choose appropriate trees, stones and mountains according to this idea. The arrangement and combination of grass and other materials in the basin space completed this idea.
(2) According to the specific morphological characteristics of mountains, grass, trees and stones, some ideas are generated, and then the morphological characteristics of these mountains, stones, grass and trees are conceived and used to arrange and combine to complete a certain landscape and artistic conception. Because the landscape composition of bonsai is limited by modeling materials, this conception method is to combine the common ideas of rock modeling and various combined bonsai.
Because landscape bonsai is the arrangement and combination of mountains, stones, grass and trees in the basin space, there is a law of mountain trend or structural combination in this combination.
Generally speaking, landscape bonsai has the theory of landscape modeling opening and closing, and complex landscape bonsai composed of mountains generally has the method of opening and closing for a while, two times or three times. Opening and closing is a complete mountain scene such as scattered stones between the subject and the object in the landscape bonsai. When mountains are placed in a basin, they can form a visual unit with the spatial position in the basin. Because of the "tension" in the sense of composition (omni-directional and bidirectional radiation), people's visual psychology has a sense of expansion (that is, "potential"), which has the effect of occupying space. At the same time, because it is directional in three-dimensional space (such as the direction of mountains in a basin), it occupies space asymmetrically, forming a sense of movement in people's visual psychology and pictures. The reason for the movement is actually the imbalance caused by the radiation of the unfolding lines of visual units such as points or blocks in the picture, which is related to the position of the mountain facet in the "perfect space". On China's Landscape Painting
Since the "potential" in landscape bonsai is obtained by "fixing the old" ("fixing the old" means arranging and combining like an array), when the mountain blocks are arranged and combined, the mountain tension will inevitably form a variety of mountain tension characteristics, that is, different "potentials". Generally speaking, the potential of landscape bonsai includes "rise", "inheritance", "turn", "combination", "fall" and "knot".
In the modeling of rock landscape, contrast and contrast are also very important. The meanings of contrast and contrast are relatively broad and relative. For example, the contrast between big and small, the contrast between subject and object, the contrast between sparse and dense, the contrast between hidden and exposed, and so on. The contrast between emptiness and reality, front and back, stone and tree should be reflected according to the theme and technique of creation. Only by mastering the law of creation can we "use magic and concentrate on it wholeheartedly".