明代瓷瓶

我尝试了一种有效技法来模仿明代瓷瓶——典型的中国白瓷蓝彩瓷瓶。我们先从一些图片中临摹中国瓷瓶的典型造型，例如细颈、大腹的轮廓。为准确画出对称造型，需先画一条垂直中线，再画出半边轮廓，然后像照镜子一样，依此完成另一半。

接着，用油画棒以不同明度的蓝色为轮廓上色，确保整个瓷瓶表面都被填满。之后，再用一层白色丙烯颜料或白色底料（gesso）覆盖瓷瓶，并静置待干。

待白色涂层完全干燥后，用牙签在表面刻划纹样，模仿明代瓷器上的图案（如龙纹、汉字、植物、花卉、云纹、鸟纹等），这样底层的蓝色便会显露出来！

最后，将瓷瓶剪下，粘贴到黑色背景纸上。你也可将其粘贴在白色卡纸上，并添加投影（参见此前发布的条纹瓶一文）；或者，用白色中文文字完善整体构图！

以下为英国布里斯托樱桃园小学（Cherry Garden Primary School）六年级学生创作的精美瓷瓶作品。

The Ming Vases

I’ve tried an effective technique to imitate the Ming Vases, the typical Chinese vases in white porcelain with blue decorations. We begin copying the characteristic shapes of the Chinese vases from some pictures, with narrow necks and large bellies. To succeed in draw the symmetrical shape you start by median vertical line, draw a half and then you try to complete the other side, as if in a mirror.

Now you color the shapes with oil pastels in various shades of blue, making sure to fill the whole surface of the vase. After that you cover the vases with a layer of white acrylic paint or white gesso primer and wait until it dries.

When the white layer is dry you engrave the surface with a toothpick copying the drawings from the Ming porcelains (dragons, ideograms, plants, flowers, clouds and birds…), thus it will appear the underlying blue!

Eventually cut vases and paste them on a black background. You can paste on a white cardboard adding shadows cast (as you can see in a previous post with the Striped Bottles),  or you can complete the composition with white lettering in Chinese!

Here below the beautiful vases created by students’ of Cherry Garden Primary School in Bristol. The pupil are in the 6th grade classes.