What are the raw materials for clay sculpture models carved by stone mountain carving?

stone mountain carving can be seen everywhere in the city. Do you know what the main raw materials are for making stone mountain carving? Of course, you will inevitably encounter a variety of raw materials when making stone mountain carving, but the main raw material is mud.

However, the editor still wants to tell you that not all mud can be used to make stone mountain carving. It is best to use clay with strong viscosity and fine texture. Here is a detailed introduction to you:
1. Qingli soil: Produced in the Jiangnan area, the adhesiveness is stronger than yellow mud and the soil quality is fine;
2. Clay: Clay has many characteristics, such as uniform particles, strong viscosity, fine soil quality, etc.;
3. Yellow soil: Produced in hilly areas, characteristics: fine soil and strong stickiness;
4. Earthy red mud: Earthy red mud is the ideal soil for stone sculpture. It has fine soil quality, good viscosity and small shrinkage;
The so-called stone mountain carving is the product of the combination of stone carving and painting. It uses compression to process objects, relies on factors such as perspective to express three-dimensional space, and can only be viewed from one or two sides. stone mountain carving are generally attached to another plane, so they are used more in architecture and can often be seen on utensils. Due to its compression characteristics, it takes up less space, so it is suitable for decoration in a variety of environments. In recent years, it has occupied an increasingly important position in urban beautification. stone mountain carving are as rich as stone sculpture in content, form and material. They mainly include shrine style, high stone mountain carving, shallow stone mountain carving, line carving, hollow type and other forms.
Grotto carvings in ancient my country can be classified as shrine stone sculpture. According to different modeling techniques, they can be divided into realistic, decorative and abstract.
High stone mountain carving refers to a form of small compression, large undulations, close to Stone Carving, or even semi-stone carving. This kind of stone mountain carving has a strong contrast between light and dark and has outstanding visual effects.
The shallow stone mountain carving are highly compressed and have small undulations. It not only maintains an architectural planarity, but also has a certain sense of volume and undulations.
Line carving is a combination of painting and stone carving. It relies on light and shadow, using light as a substitute for writing. There are even some subtle ups and downs, giving people an elegant and subtle feeling.
Hollow carving is to remove the base plate of the so-called stone mountain carving, thereby creating a variety of negative space, and making the contour lines of the negative space and the positive space have a rhythm of mutual conversion.