Dong Ho Painting (Tranh Dong Ho)
Dong Ho painting was born in Bac Ninh, home of Vietnam Traditional Folk Music. This is a unique line of the folklore paintings that requires the finesse of Vietnamese hands. This is one of the most well-known type of Vietnamese paintings.
Dong Ho paintings belong to the line of woodblock prints created, produced and developed by Dong Ho villagers. This is a line of paintings that closely and vividly displays the traditional Vietnamese agricultural society, the working life of ordinary farmers, the simplicity, customs, customs, and activities of Vietnamese people.
How to make Dong Ho painting?
1. Creating art form sample: This is the work of a craftsman. The artisans of these people are usually educated gurus, knowledgeable in culture, history, society, talented in observation, with aesthetic taste, etc. Therefore, Dong Ho paintings have very rich content.
2. Cutting planks: Make a flat wooden board. Rosewood, squid wood are usually made of sharp boards (sharp, durable), yellow heartwood makes planks (bigger array, not need to be “sharp”, but yellow heartwood is softer, easier to engrave). Then sweep the paste-up, paste the sheet face-down, sweep it once again with a “thet” (a kind of pine brush) without glue, the entire picture pattern has appeared on the back of the picture. After cutting, when printing a picture, it will look like a sample sheet.
3. Engraving shapes: The engraving on this board is usually large, deep and vertical.
4. Coloring: Print out a stroke, use a brush to color each piece – usually each sheet has three to four colors and the contour is black, then take the thin sheet of paper on top of it, and paint over each of those colors one copy, and then do the same with the pattern board – get the color boards. For these boards to print together, they have two dots on each left, close to the edge of the woods – called “cu” (frame).