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Folk Stories via Lunar Year Pictures
一张年画一个故事

Start to Make Your Own
​自己在家做年画儿

Experience it yourself. It's easy and fun! 自己动手迎大神儿!

Heaven Official 天官
Option1: Color Version
Download, Print, and Post directly 

选择一:彩印文件
直接下载、打印、张贴即可。

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Heaven Official God_Colored

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Option 2: Self-Craft Version
Download and print the black&white version, then color it yourself!

选择二:黑白拓印线稿文件
下载黑白线稿后打印上色,更有创意!
Get Our Coloring Tips11 了解上色技巧

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​What is Lunar Year Picture?
年画是什么?

Lunar Year Pictures (年画Nián Huà​​) is a Chinese folk painting, which is often displayed inside a residential house or at the gate during the Spring Festival. The production method is usually wood engraving and then rubbing and coloring, but some are just hand-painted. It carries stories from generation to generation for thousands of years, especially stories about Chinese Gods for generations.  

年画(Nián Huà)是一种中国民间绘画,是春节期间在私人住宅内或大门口展示的版画。制作方式通常是木质版刻后拓印上彩,但也有一些只是手绘。 它承载着千百年来世代相传的故事,尤其是关于中国神灵的故事。

Craftsmanship oLunar New Year Picture
木版年画的工艺

木版年画在中国历史悠久,最早出现在宋代,距今已经有一千多年的历史了。木版年画在中国有众多流派,从制作技巧方面可以分为木版套色,半印半绘,纯手工绘画等多种方法。

 

此次我们体验的便是半印半绘技法,从起稿,构图,再到描画,上版,搓纸,刻版,洗版,润纸,修版,试色,砑印,我们手中每一张墨画均经历了十多道工序方才制成。与套色年画不同的是此次画稿后期的需要我们手工依次上色完成作品。

 

中国木版年画各地色彩使用习惯各有特色,但总体基本都是墨色加五到六种彩色颜料,常用的色彩为大红、藤黄和草绿,辅以粉色,紫色,蓝色等。

虽然常规意义上是半印半绘的技法,但在我们创作过程中,也不必拘泥于形式,可以大胆的尝试用单一色调进行平涂,创造出崭新别样的风格。

Woodblock New Year pictures have a long history in China. They first appeared in the Song Dynasty and have a history of more than a thousand years. There are many schools of woodblock New Year pictures in China, which can be divided into woodblock coloring, half-printed and half-painted, pure hand-painted, and other methods in terms of production techniques.

This time we experienced the technique of half-printing and half-painting, from drafting, composition, drawing, printing, plate rubbing, engraving, plate washing, paper embellishment, plate revision, color testing, calendering, every detail in our hands Each ink painting has gone through more than ten processes before it is made. The difference from the colored New Year pictures is that we need to manually color in order to complete the work in the later stage of the drawing.

The color usage habits of Chinese woodblock New Year paintings have their own characteristics in different regions, but the overall color is basically black plus five to six kinds of color pigments. The commonly used colors are scarlet, gamboge and grass green, supplemented by pink, purple, blue, and so on.

 

​Although the traditional technique is half-printing and half-painting, we don’t have to stick to the form in our creative process. We can boldly try to use a single color for flat painting to create our unique style.

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​Coloring Tips
上色技巧​

Tips for coloring black and white manuscripts

Preparation of pigments: Chinese woodblock New Year paintings have different color usage habits in different places, but the overall color is basically black plus five to six kinds of color pigments. The commonly used colors are scarlet, gamboge and grass green, supplemented by pink, purple, blue, and so on.

Coloring: generally follow the principle of light first, then darker, starting from the surface, and then dot, that is, start with light colors such as yellow and pink, and gradually use green, red, blue, and other dark color pigments. In the selection of the image position, start from the important position of the picture, such as the face of the door god. For coloring, you can first
choose a large area of light color flat paint, and after it dries, use dark pigments to color the dots and lines. You can also use a brush to draw the inner or outer outline of the object, and then color it.

​Note: When dealing with color superposition and two-color adjacent positions, be sure to wait for the first applied color to dry before proceeding to the coloring process of the second color, otherwise it is easy to appear the cross-color situation of two colors

 
 

黑白稿上色小帖士

  1. 准备颜料:中国木版年画各地色彩使用习惯各有特色,但总体基本都是墨色加五到六种彩色颜料,常用的色彩为大红、藤黄和草绿,辅以粉色,紫色,蓝色等。

  2. 上色:一般遵循先浅再深,先面后点的原则,即先从黄色,粉色等浅色开始上色,逐渐使用绿色,红色,蓝色等深色系颜料。在图像位置选择上,先从画面的重要位置开始画起,如门神的脸部,上色选择可以先选择浅色的大面积平涂,待干透后,用深色颜料进行点线的着色。也可以先用毛笔描画出物体的内部或外部轮廓线,再进行上色。


注意:处理色彩叠加和两色相邻的位置时,一定要等先涂抹的颜色干透后再进行第二种颜色的着色过程,否则容易出现串色情况。

Meet Different Chinese Gods

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Kitchen God灶神

We are the guarding your home and watch how you manage your family.

我们守护你的家,并且观察你如何持家。

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Door God
​门神

We are two brothers serving as your family guardians. We hold strong of your "fortress", defending the building from demons and bad luck, feeding interlopers to our pet tigers. 

我们两兄弟在门槛上守护你的家门,让你和家人免受恶魔和厄运的侵害。

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WealthGod
财神

The God of Wealth in China blesses you with world's financial resources and luckiness to get them. Together with other three gods in charges of your Luck, Income, and Long Life, you will be well blessed.

财神在中国是主管世间财源的神明。增福财神与“福”、“禄”、“寿”三星和喜神列在一起,合起来为福、禄、寿、喜、财。

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More Stories
​更多大神儿

More to come. Welcome to Follow Us!

更多故事,敬请关注。

​Friends of chuanmener 串门儿的朋友之

月山夕®

Over the years,

YueShanXi collected Chinese Lunar New Year Pictures from all over China.

By further reviving these arts and crafts,

We wish you could feel their beauty just like time-traveling through our culture.

多年来,

月山夕从中国各地所收藏的年画,

透过更贴近生活与使用的设计思维,

期望让这些穿越时代的

民间美术、文化的美,被更多的看见。

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