Water paper-cut tutorials and paper-cut patterns
Water is the hardest and softest substance in the world. When water is still, it becomes a mirror, when water moves, it becomes waves, when water rises, it becomes air, when water falls, it becomes rain, and when water disperses, it forms rivers and water. When gathered together, it becomes the sea... It is not difficult to express such a complex and changeable substance in the form of paper-cutting. Therefore, according to the description in the paper-cutting pattern collection, when learning paper-cutting, you can first practice cutting water with different shapes, which will be beneficial to your understanding of paper-cutting. Understanding and mastering the position of scissors in paper-cutting. Water itself is also the main image in many common paper-cut patterns. For example, when there are mountains, there is often water, and sometimes dragons may be cut with water as a foil.
1. Preparation: Take two pieces of colored paper and fold them twice to form four layers each, or take eight pieces of colored paper and divide them into two parts and staple them separately.
2. Tracing: On the ordered paper, use a pencil to trace the picture, paying attention to the characteristics of each water pattern.
3. Cutting: When cutting water, you must first observe its shape: whether it is still, flowing, urgent, or slow. The cutting methods are different for each shape. For example, the water in the paper-cut work "Fish Flying in Rapid Waves" should represent rapid water and high waves. When cutting, it should be cut in a large shape from the inside out in circles, so that the waves stretch and the water lines form a circle. The water in the paper-cut work "Mandarin Ducks Playing in Water" expresses the slow flow of water. Just cut out upward curved arcs, but these arcs must not be perfectly aligned. They must be staggered left and right and connected naturally, otherwise It will look stiff; to express still water, it is common to use a few curves with very small fluctuations; the cutting method of flowing water is to add waves to embellish it on the basis of slow flow, that is, cut one or two waves at the intersection of the arcs.
A paper-cut work about water "Fish Flying in Rapid Waves"
Water is widely used in paper-cutting. It is often combined with fish, shrimp, waterfowl, buffalo and other animals. Especially common traditional themes include "Continuous (Lotus) Years More Than (Fish)" and other traditional themes combined with human figures. It is mostly seen in "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Wang Xiang Lying on Fish", "Jiang Taigong Fishing", etc.
About the water paper-cut work "Mandarin Ducks Playing in the Water"
Water is sometimes not directly represented in folk paper-cutting, such as the "Fish and Lotus" in the paper-cutting work "". Fish and lotus grow in water, but water is not represented in the paper-cutting, and it makes people not feel that it is not there. This is the beauty of "not realizing it yet".
