God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1480 Plum Blossom Fairy
Before doing it, Xu Jingxing thought it was very simple, but when he actually started it, he realized that this craft was far more difficult than he imagined, much more difficult.

Among other things, it took him a long time to cut the filigree.

If I knew it earlier, I would have bought gold and silver silk directly.

Even gold and silver paper is fine, it is easier to cut.

Well now, the block gold and silver that I bought had to be smelted and cut by myself. Although this was beneficial, it was too laborious.

That is to say, his strength is strong enough, and his physical fitness is strong enough. Otherwise, just cutting these gold and silver threads can make a normal person too tired to work.

After cutting out the gold and silver filaments that can be inlaid into the grooves, you have to carefully fill them in one by one, and then lightly beat them with a small hammer until they are tight and solid, so that the silk threads and the grooves are tightly occluded. The level meets the requirements.

Of course, the biggest problem for him is time-consuming.

Even if it is him, when doing this kind of work, the speed will not be much faster than ordinary people. After all, this is a meticulous work, and it is slow work. No matter how fast it is, every silk thread must be placed in the corresponding groove exactly. There is no room for sloppyness. No matter how fast the speed is, it can only be a little faster than a skilled craftsman.

So when his first gold and silver wrong lighter came out of the oven, it was already two o'clock in the morning.

"It's finally finished. It's really time-consuming to make this stuff. It's much more time-consuming than jade carving and wood carving. With this time, I can carve a big piece," he complained to the camera.

But seeing the finished product in his hand, he was still very satisfied.

Although it is only a conventional shape, the appearance created by the gold and silver interlacing process is extremely high-end. The silver silk thread is used as the base, and the golden silk thread is used for the drawing. The visual effect presented by the combination of the two tones is appropriately elegant and atmospheric. In particular, the sense of lines formed between silk threads gives people the feeling of looking at works of art in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Anyway, just one word, beautiful.

Originally, materials such as pure gold and silver are somewhat tacky when used as arts and crafts. No matter how exquisite the shape and workmanship are, with that pure color tone, it will show that effect. This is the characteristic of the material. One material has one material. The characteristics of each have their own strengths and weaknesses in artistic expression, just as jade and wood have their own advantages and disadvantages in the art of carving.

But when the two materials of gold and silver are fused together with the technique of mixing gold and silver, your artistic expression is particularly strong.

In fact, most of the gold and silver interlacing crafts are just embellishments. For example, the early gold and silver interlaced bronze wares were just filled with some simple patterns with gold and silver threads on the surface of the bronze wares. The background color was still bronze wares, just like painting on white paper. The patterns filled with gold and silver threads are relatively simple, accounting for only about one or two percent of the entire surface of the vessel, which is very sparse anyway.

But Xu Jingxing was not willing to do such a simple thing, and the size of a small gadget like a lighter itself is small, if the pattern is made so sparse, it will look too petty.

So when designing, he made the pattern as complicated as possible. The silver wire almost wrapped the whole lighter, which looked as if it was made of pure silver, while the original copper tire became a foil.

Then, paint with golden yellow between silver white and copper yellow, so that it looks more beautiful and more atmospheric.

Of course, it is also more valuable, after all, the materials are here. The pure gold and pure silver used in such a small lighter can buy a brand-name limited-edition lighter.

If you count the craft money, the price will only be higher.

As for the specific pattern on this lighter, it is actually quite common, which is the first moon plum blossom fairy among the twelve flower fairies.

The legend of the flower fairies has existed for a long time, but the saying of the twelve flower fairies roughly appeared in the Qing Dynasty. In terms of words, it should be the early fantasy novel "Flowers in the Mirror".

To be honest, Xu Jingxing has never read "Flowers in the Mirror". After all, his age is limited, and he has only lived for less than 25 years. Even if he reads every day, it is impossible to read all the books. It is not within his scope of interest, or the ranking is relatively low, and he may read it carefully when he is free in a few years.

But he watched this TV series when he was a child. Anyway, he was still young at that time. He only remembered that this TV series was very interesting. He watched it intermittently. See.

Anyway, he saw the story of the Twelve Flower Fairies from other places, and occasionally used it in his previous creations. After all, the story of the Twelve Flower Fairies is quite popular, and it is a story with relatively positive energy, so it is popular among the people. In the handicraft industry, this can be regarded as a relatively popular theme.

The twelve flower fairies correspond to the twelve months respectively, plum blossoms in the first month, apricot blossoms in February, orchids in March, peonies in April, durian flowers in May, lotus flowers in June, red bananas in July, osmanthus flowers in August, chrysanthemums in September, and chrysanthemums in October. Moon tree lotus, winter moon camellia, and twelfth moon narcissus.

The story of these twelve flower fairies is similar to the story of Wu Zetian and Peony Flowers. Anyway, it is a story of defying power.

In fact, there are many theories about the specific flower species of the Twelve Flower Fairies. Some versions have peonies, some have begonias, and some have rhododendrons. Anyway, it is a folk story, and many times it is to cater to the appetite of the local people. , the storyteller will deliberately add some, except for the protagonist of the story like Peony, which cannot be changed, other flower fairies can be changed at will.

This can be regarded as an interesting place in folk culture.

Xu Jingxing chose his favorite group, which was the group mentioned above.

As for the images of the flower fairies, they were created temporarily, with no fixed standards at all, unlike the well-known characters such as Shou Xing and Guan Gong, who have almost fixed images and cannot be easily changed.

No matter whether these flower fairies are in legends or in folk culture, their images are not fixed, and they can be created in any way, as long as they look like fairies.

In the hands of folk craftsmen, most of the flower fairies are closely related to the flower species they represent. For example, the plum blossom fairy will hold a plum blossom in her hand, or the hairpin of the apricot blossom fairy is an apricot flower, and the lotus fairy will hold a plum blossom. Take a lotus pod or the like, so that it is easy to identify and will not confuse the audience.

But Xu Jingxing didn't do that. The plum blossom fairy he portrayed with the gold and silver technique almost didn't have any characteristics in that aspect, it was just an ordinary fairy image.

(End of this chapter)