Several Methods Of Stone Carving

1, relief, the sculptor carved out the image he wants to shape on the flat plate, so that it is separated from the original material plane. Relief is a combination of sculpture and painting. Relief uses compression to process objects, and perspective to express three-dimensional space, and only for one or two sides. The relief is usually attached to another plane, so it is used more on the building. The relief takes up less space due to its compression characteristics, so it is suitable for decoration in various environments. The embossment is a semi-three-dimensional sculpture that is embossed on the stone surface. According to the difference in the depth of stone removal, the image can be divided into bas-relief and high-relief.

2, the engraving is also hollowed out, that is, the part of the engraving material that has not realized the object image is hollowed out, and the part that can express the object image is left. The main feature of carving is to represent the three-dimensional space level of objects. Due to the difficulty of carving, the selection of stone materials, the layout of the work, the equipment of the cutter, and the engraving procedure are all different from the general engraving techniques. The carved stone must be pure and fine, especially the hollowed part, and there should be no cracks and high-density sand lattices, otherwise it will easily cause fracture.

3. Openwork. In relief works, the protruding image part is retained, and the back part is partially hollowed out, which is called openwork. It is questionable that some carving techniques are classified into open carving and sculpting. Combining the characteristics of relief and round carvings and the skill of craftsmanship, both openwork and openwork have the characteristics of penetrating carving, but there are still obvious differences between the two. Openwork is based on relief. Generally, the background part is hollowed out. The back of openwork is mostly expressed in the form of an insert screen, which is divided into single-sided and double-sided. One-sided open-carving only engraved the front side, and two-sided open-engraving engraved both the front and back objects.

4, the sunken sculpture, also known as "water mill sunken flower", is to build an image on the smooth natural rock or building such as a lintel, a stone pillar, a wall block, etc. sense. Most are cliff plaques, inscriptions and couplets.

5, the line carving and sculpting carving arts have similar ideas, but the carving techniques are different. This type of traditional brushstrokes that attract Chinese painting's freehand, overlapping, line modeling, scatter perspective, etc. After the stone is processed and polished on the plane, the pattern text is traced, and then the lines are engraved according to the figure. The thickness of the lines is used to reflect the three-dimensional effect.

6. The round sculpture, also called three-dimensional sculpture, is the overall expression of art on the sculpture. The round sculpture specifically refers to a non-compressed three-dimensional sculpture that can be viewed from multiple angles and angles. The viewer himself can see all sides of the object from different angles. It requires the sculptor to sculpt in all directions from front, back, left, right, top, middle, and bottom. Complete three-dimensional is the representative feature of the round sculpture. In addition, the circle sculpture is extremely refined. The circle sculpture rarely expresses the complex and tortuous story subjects or situations in the past.