The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 181: Practicing gilding? 32 taels of gold, make it for me! (Red Comet Mas's Rewards 1)

How to sprinkle gold powder on lacquerware, and paint pavilions, towers, landscapes and figures, with perfect form, meaning, spirit and refined brushwork?
There’s nothing special about it, it’s just that I’m skilled at it.

Of course, there is a hidden condition: you need to have money.

A hundred years ago, decades ago, these lacquerwares with gold painting, gold shading and gold sprinkling could only be made by master craftsmen, and only the favorite disciples of master craftsmen could learn from them.

Now that the country is developed and rich in resources, the rules are naturally not so strict. However, if Shen Le wants to practice more, a lot of practice, he must have enough money to lay the foundation:

"Old You! Do me a favor and negotiate a deal with the lacquerware factory. Buy one hundred pieces - forget it, buy two hundred pieces of plain lacquer boards! I want black lacquer, and the paint layer must be at least one centimeter thick!"

"Please help me buy some gold powder and gold foil. Hmm, buy enough to make 500 lacquer boards! It doesn't matter if you buy a little more..."

Carve, carve, paint, paint. If I don't have enough materials to practice, I can use money to buy time. Anyway, I have money now...

A full 100 million!
When I came back from the tiger place, before I even boarded the plane, the Special Affairs Bureau transferred the money to me!
This little bit of paint board and gold powder are not even a drop in the bucket, and cannot even pay for one month’s interest!
With enough training tools and motivation, Shen Le's practice progress suddenly accelerated.

Lacquer line drawing, on the lacquer surface that has been polished to a matte effect and presents the color of ebony, use red lacquer liquid mixed with orpiment to draw the lines clearly. Try to keep the lines in the center, steady and smooth...

"Hey, it's crooked again..."

"It's crooked again..."

"It's wrong again... Why is the brush so difficult to use... Is there such a big difference between using a brush dipped in lacquer to draw on a lacquer surface and using a brush to draw on paper..."

"Did I mix the paint too thick? My brush tip is so sluggish!"

"No, it's too thin again..."

After painting two solid paint boards in a mess, Shen Le finally mastered the feel of clear outlining.

According to the previous draft, first outline the pavilion pattern, and when the lacquer is almost dry, sprinkle gold powder and shade;

When it is completely dry, outline the landscape and figure patterns from top to bottom, sprinkle gold powder again, and go into the shade...

"The gold dust is scattered!"

"That's wrong!"

"It's crooked, it's crooked, it's crooked..."

Fortunately, the largest bottles of gold powder that Lao You bought for him were made by melting and grinding copper, zinc and aluminum alloy in a certain proportion, purely for him to get familiar with the feel.

A bottle of 100 grams, the cheapest one is only more than ten yuan, and the most expensive one, 3000 mesh, mixed with 0.2‰ sand gold, is only more than 30 yuan.

Shen Le didn't even feel bad even if the whole bottle was smashed...

He used up five lacquer boards and two bottles of gold powder, and barely mastered the art of powder application.

The so-called rough practice means that gold powder can be evenly sprinkled on the lines, without it being scattered outside or unevenly sprinkled inside, or too thin in some places or piled up in some places.

As for the staggered application of two, three, or four colors of gold powder, with the layers of smudges staggered and orderly, I'm sorry, Shen Le hasn't practiced to that level yet...

He could only grit his teeth and continue to practice. While practicing the gold-dizzy technique, he also practiced the gold-drawing technique for recognizing words and the gold-drawing technique for piling up drums:
After all the clear lines are drawn, the trees and water ripples are piled up layer by layer. The highest layer is the trunk, the lower layer is the branches, and the lower layer is the leaves.

The highest level is the rocks, the next level is the water bank, and the next level is the waves...

"Oh my god! This is really a test of my skills!"

Shen Le cried as she painted. These patterns were painted with lacquer layer by layer, with each layer adding up to the height!

If the force applied by your hands is a little uneven, the thickness of the paint is a little different, or even the brushstrokes are a little crooked, the superimposed pattern will be wrong!

These patterns are smudged with gold powder to form textures, and people can see the sense of stacking layers!
How many times do I have to practice before I can paint landscapes that are rote and written according to a script so that people can see the shape, spirit, and energy!!!
Practice, practice, practice. This unfortunate smudge, hold two pens in one hand and use them at the same time, one dipped in transparent paint liquid, the other like the "water pen" in ink painting, dipped in volatile oil.

Use a paint pen to blend and fill the paint, and use an oil pen to blend the paint. Shen Le feels that the master who invented this technique may not be a human, but some kind of creature similar to an octopus:

How to draw with two pens in one hand!!!

And it doesn't mean that you can just follow it... When using gold lacquer to paint patterns, the lines should be thinner than the original painting, because during the drying process, the leveling properties of the lacquer will make the lines wider.

How much is this “a little”?

Is it 5%?

Or 10%?

Or 1%? If my hand shakes, the line will be too wide, too narrow, or a little wavy and uneven.

The mastery of these details will not be reflected in the paper. You can only rely on your own practice, practice to death, practice slowly, and explore slowly...

Shen Le spent a full month and wasted more than a hundred lacquer boards practicing all kinds of gilding and lacquering techniques.

When Professor Lin recovered a little and called again, he could finally hold his head high and report to the old man:
"I'm repairing it! I'm repairing it! I'm ready to repair the gold-painted landscapes, pavilions and figures on the inner wall of the double doors of the dressing box!
——Teacher, look, this is a replica I made based on the inner wall of the double door for practice..."

He stood the two wooden boards upright, moved them under the light, and aimed the camera. According to the old lady's request, he kept moving the phone and the light source so that the old lady could see more clearly:
"Gold-drawing with text, gold-drawing with drums, gold-fading method, gold-inlay method, gold-sprinkling method, gold-opening with flat gold..."

On the other side of the phone, the old lady nodded and smiled as she read:
"Well done. You have basically mastered all the techniques. It must have cost you a lot of money. How much gold powder did you waste?"

"Not bad, maybe ten bottles..."

Shen Le turned the camera to the empty bottles beside the workbench. The old lady smiled as soon as she saw them:
"You bought cheap gold powder, right? When you really repair it, you need to use gold powder made of real gold. Don't let your hands shake when you do that!"

One bottle weighs 32 grams, and ten bottles weigh kilogram. In ancient times, one pound weighed taels, so he probably wasted taels of gold.

According to the current gold price, today's basic gold price is 547.7 yuan per gram. Shen Le probably wasted 54.77 yuan on this wave.

Fortunately, modern industry has provided him with enough cheap gold powder...

Shen Le could only smile. The old lady waved her hand in a good mood:
"Go ahead and do it. Come on. Once you pass the gilding stage, the following steps, such as mother-of-pearl, various precious stones, gold and silver trimming, will not be difficult..."

The "not difficult" that the old lady said and the "not difficult" that Shen Le felt were probably not the same concept.

At the very least, Shen Le practiced for half a month, from carving mother-of-pearl into flower petals to carving into fragments of baby playing pictures, pictures of hundreds of children, and strokes of characters.

It is not difficult to practice cutting gold and silver foil, but how many layers of lacquer to apply, at what height to stick the gold and silver foil, how many layers of lacquer to apply on top, and how many layers to polish after applying, all require repeated attempts;
The craft of black lacquer inlaid with various gems is even more complicated. As the name suggests, various kinds of gems will appear.

Flowers of the four seasons are inlaid with materials such as white jade, jadeite, agate, and ivory;

The colorful butterflies are inlaid with pearls, corals, beeswax, lapis lazuli, turquoise and other materials;
Not to mention that he had to cut each of them into small pieces and then carve them into the specified shapes, just the material issue alone was enough to overwhelm Shen Le...

Unlike gold and silver carving and mother-of-pearl inlay, which are glued on, painted, polished, painted again, and polished again, inlaid treasures are made by digging grooves on the lacquer surface and then pasting the polished and carved treasures on.

Several components on this panel are missing, the amber-carved flowers are dehydrated and cracked, and the silver-inlaid stripes are severely oxidized and rusted.

Shen Le had never repaired it before, so he had to look up information, beg for help, and try to get started:

Clean the silver wire to restore its luster, then carefully apply 5% B72 acrylic resin sealant little by little with a cotton swab to prevent further oxidation;
If the amber is a little cracked, apply a layer of 5% 1096 sealant on it to prevent it from losing water and cracking further.
For the missing parts of other components, we need to deduce the pattern design based on the shape of the groove, and then choose the appropriate material based on the overall style of the entire panel...

"Fortunately, I have seen it in my memory..."

Shen Le muttered quietly, trying to call up the images in his memory and quickly drawing on the manuscript paper.

Well, this one is a red peony, the color is so bright, it should be made of red coral;
This piece is a flying butterfly. I remember it was a soft white color, probably mutton-fat white jade?

This piece is green orchid grass, light green and shiny. Is it jasper? Or jadeite? Or Xiuyan jade?

Regardless, buy it and have a look...

"Lao You! Please buy the materials for me according to this list. The quantity doesn't have to be large, but the quality must be good!"

"Okay! Don't worry!!!"

Shen Le hummed a song while drawing on paper. He was really not good at carving jade and gemstones, but fortunately this kind of work could be outsourced:
"Lao You, help me deliver a package!"

I remember that Chen Guohua had a master craftsman who specialized in jade carving...

The peregrine falcon grabbed the small package, flapped its wings, and flew out of the window, as if preparing to act as a human courier.

I went there on the same day and came back in three days. I watched the master craftsman carving and polishing the whole process to ensure that there was no possibility of changing the goods in the middle...

The oxblood red Aka coral is now on the market for more than 10,000 yuan per gram;

White jade is cheaper, but this one is over ten thousand.
Jade was relatively cheap a few years ago, but in recent years, the price of light green jade with good water content has skyrocketed. This piece was obtained by him in exchange with a local monster!
Shen Le leaned on the workbench with his arms folded, smiling smugly.

Hehehe, if I have memories, I can directly see the past images of this old object and repair it directly and specifically—

Just ask who is stronger than me!
　Thanks to @书墨凉 for the 1919 starting coins

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