What is the whole process of wood watermarking?

Copying Chinese painting with woodcut watermark mainly includes the following four processes: 1. Sketch splitting needs to analyze the original work first, and determine the number of splitting and splitting according to the color level, shade, artist's style and artistic characteristics, and the size of the picture. The manuscript has several colors and needs to be divided into several sets of color plates. Simple tones generally need dozens of sets of color separation plates, and complex manuscripts even need hundreds of sets of color separation plates. In order to protect the manuscript, cover the manuscript with transparent plastic film and sketch the version with a brush before dividing the version; Then cover the plastic film with translucent goose skin paper and sketch it again. How many pieces are divided into, how many pieces of goose skin paper must be traced. 2. Carve words on the surface of hard wooden boards such as planed pear wood or jujube wood, stick the painted goose skin paper backwards, dry it and carve it again. Carving is to carve a plate according to the lines of the manuscript with special tools. We should pay attention to the beginning and end of the manuscript and understand its characteristics and style, so as to vividly reproduce the techniques and brushstrokes of the original painting under the knife. 3. Printing should be overprinted in turn according to the version order. When printing, you must choose the same printing material as the original, such as rice paper or silk. Printing materials are not ordinary printing inks, but water-based pigments for Chinese painting. The tool for painting pigment is a writing brush, and the pressure tool is a brown brush. When printing, compare with the manuscript, add color to the corresponding color plate with a brush over and over again, and gradually overprint into a complete printed matter. Some also need local rendering and uniform coloring. 4. Mounting and printing the finished products, setting off and mounting them in the form of traditional Chinese painting mounting, mounting them into scrolls or picture books for hanging or preservation. The process of artistic creation by using woodcut watermarking technology is basically the same as that of copying, but the difference is that it is not copying the original, but conceiving and creating by itself.