September 27th: Shanghai leaves for Lhasa. There is only one way to realize your idea, so do it. ...
September 28th: It was eighteen years ago that I first came to Lhasa. What attracted me was the exotic customs and mysterious religions in Tibet, that is, in Potala Palace. When I first came into contact with Thangka, I was deeply touched and loved. I never thought that I could become attached to Thangka's teacher and have the opportunity to learn and draw Thangka by myself. This time, I came to Dream Thangka College with a little dream. ...
In order to ensure our study progress, the brothers stretched the canvas in advance, and this morning taught us to brush and wipe the canvas, so that we could directly experience the production of the later canvas.
Thangka's canvas is mainly cotton and linen, or blended, which needs to be cut and spliced according to the size of the picture. Then wet the canvas, sew it on four thin wooden strips, and then stretch it on a special wooden frame with hemp rope. Then brush the canvas with light glue, plug all cloth holes, dry it in the shade with chalk mixed with high-quality bone glue, brush it evenly on cotton cloth, and polish it repeatedly with round stones after drying. This process has at least three times. Every time you wet-grind the canvas, the rope on the wooden frame should be tightened once until the canvas is as smooth as paper, so that you can paint directly on this white cloth that is tight on the wooden frame.
Thanks to the help of my brothers, I barely finished making the canvas. ...
After painting and drying the canvas, dry it and brush it again. When the cloth looks like a thick piece of paper, you can finally tick the line on the canvas. First, the brothers helped us draw the center on the canvas with a red line and measured the size of the Buddha statue. From this moment on, my dream was realized with concentration and strength in this humble studio. ...
Night arrival still can't resist our passion for painting, and the whole body of Sakyamuni Buddha has been painted during the day; At this time, the mobile phone light was on, and the little teacher helped me adjust the manuscript. Finally, the instrument, the orb, the background sky and the ground were all made up. The solemn Sakyamuni Buddha jumped out of the paper, beaming with joy. ...
September 29: I started to cross-check the draft, because I only learned the drawing of the draft in Shanghai, and I haven't reached the cross-checking stage yet. My pen-holding posture and hook-up technique are blunt at first glance, and the lines I draw do not have the natural soft and comfortable texture. Brother Ali sent by the college helped us with hook processing, coloring and stippling the sky and ground background. Today's difficult homework begins. ...
September 30th: Point, point, point, point out the sky, point out the ground; I can't understand the bitterness without personal experience ... According to the presentation of your pictures, today's combination with my brother is as follows: Nima granules (with the help of my brother Nima); Alibaba Pictures (Aligo band, patched together, is our group); Jumba Niu Ge (with the help of Brother Jumba, color is like real beauty); It attracted all the teachers and sisters to fill the studio and called on him: Qiangba Niu! Brother Jamba is also known as the Super Rescue King. Where is the difficulty? Deeply touched: without four years' efforts, any gradual change of spot dyeing is a joke!
65438+1 October1:I came to the painting academy early in the morning and looked at the Buddha statue completed yesterday. I am very happy. Today is the third painting. I feel a little more comfortable than the previous two days, and the painting area is gradually shrinking. I really dare not breathe the atmosphere ... the red cassock, the golden backlight and the Buddha statue in the sun are more and more prominent. On the National Day, with the help of senior brothers, everyone successfully completed their own Thangka drawing. Tomorrow, we will enter a more detailed tick stage and study hard to observe. ...
65438+10.2: Because I came to the academy to study painting, I got close contact with Thangka's paintings and realized its difficulty. I am moved and admired by every Thangka painter, no matter what kind of karma he paints. Drawing a good Thangka work is not only a painting skill, but also a cultural heritage and surging feelings. ...
10/3: Thangka is rich in colors. The pigments used in drawing Thangka are all taken from natural substances, with pure color, excellent quality, excellent light resistance and strong weather resistance.
"Navy Blue", named after being produced in Tibet, has the characteristics of lasting color and bright hue compared with similar pigments produced in other places. Matching with golden yellow can better reflect the solemn, noble and elegant atmosphere and become one of the unique special colors.
Although the costumes, utensils, lotus platform and background of each Buddha statue have their own color matching, what color will eventually be transferred is completely controlled by the painter's own experience. I have seen the teacher's works in the studio, and the colors are beyond words.
Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything. Gorgeous colors are born from the simplest meta-colors. Every ordinary painter shines because of Thangka, and his delicate paintings are different. ...
10/4: Today, all the little teachers and big brothers went into battle together and made faces for our Thangka, which won a great victory. ...
"Face-opening" is to paint the five senses, including expressions, eyes and expressions, to the buddhas, bodhisattvas, figures and animals in Thangkari. It is the crowning touch in the process of Thangka drawing. Let's start with the face and then paint it gold.
The success or failure of a Thangka depends on the opening of the Buddha's face, from cloth grinding, pigment grinding, manuscript, coloring, smudging, scribing, and finally to gold paint. People who can "open their faces" for Thangka are also very skilled.
It coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, and our painting friends in Shanghai and the younger brothers in the painting academy have a reunion dinner. Different Mid-Autumn Festival, spent with great teachers and brothers on such a special day. ...
65438+10.5: Today is the 15th day of Tibetan calendar, and the production of Thangka is finally finished.
All day today, Brother Zhu Ke has been polishing gold, that is, grinding pure gold into fine powder, adding water and glue to mix evenly, drawing patterns of Buddha clothes, drawing lotus stands and trees, and drawing backlights; Then polished with the hardness of agate pen to make the gold powder shine, and the whole Thangka becomes dazzling and lifelike.
Teacher Luo Zhui personally wrote scriptures on the back of Thangka with cinnabar, corresponding to the eyebrow chakra, throat chakra and heart chakra of the Buddha. The little teacher said: From then on, the Buddha statue has vitality and aura, and it has the characteristic of "leaning against the body", which protects our safety and health.
Today's Thangka production process makes people feel more deeply about the efforts behind Thangka's works. Without a certain concentration, persistence and attitude, it is impossible to become an excellent master of Thangka. Brother Zhu Ke is a first-class Thangka painter in Tibet. He is grateful for his creation, which makes Sakyamuni Buddha so unique. Thanks to brother Ali, my brothers who always support me, and my little teacher who left behind to escort me during Thangka drawing.
65438+10.6: It has been 9 days since I came to the Painting Academy. Here, painting is life, and life is painting, which is very warm. ...
October 65438+7: Facing the sunshine, the master teacher came to us with a mounted Thangka on his back and took us to the Jokhang Temple to attend the opening ceremony. The whole process was very successful. The little teacher refused to let go of Thangka since it was opened, teaching us how to hold up Thangka at home and help us roll it up one by one so that we can carry it easily; The time for parting is getting closer and closer. Looking at the back of the big teacher and the little teacher drifting away, I am infinitely grateful and blessed. ...
10/08: Dreams are the best belief, which makes the inner quiet power more and more firm and powerful in the process of dreams. ...
With the completion of Thangka, the finishing work continues. At the beginning, the elongated picture frame was dismantled in our hands, and we expected to get the empty easel on the rooftop. At that time, our thoughts were full of tears. ...
Everything in the world, life, wealth, emotion, material ... has come and gone, gathered and dispersed, and fate has come and gone. All experiences are the best arrangement ... At that moment, I seemed to understand something, empty something and open something; At that moment, my heart grew bigger and bigger. ...
10 June 15: I hung up my thangka this morning, and I felt that the whole room was lit up. I haven't seen it many times. It's a great victory. Only gratitude ... all the laws are predestined, and the meeting in this life is the reunion of previous lives.
Postscript: I accidentally saw a friend's sentence, especially after this trip to Tibet, and I felt the same way: "When I met you, everything was made out of nothing, and it will eventually return to nothingness." "Meet at Thanksgiving.