Peking Opera Roles- Qingyi

Qingyi- refers to young or middle-aged women with gentle and refined dispositions

Portrait Commission- Kids

Did three portrait paintings asked by my friend Kevin to photographs. Watercolour and pencil on paper.

If you want to give a portrait painting as a special present, contact me for more details. 

Featured on Creative Crossing

One of my work from the series "I'm Here You're Not There" is featured on Creative Crossing- an online platform for artists, designers and all creative people. Thanks! Click the image to go to the article.

Those Women

I think those people who are studying art at school as they love it, who have opportunities to pursue art abroad as they love it, who are doing art as their career as they love art, are admirable.

我觉得那些在大学里学习艺术的人，那些出国深造艺术的人，那些有机会把艺术作为事业的人......是令人羡慕的。

Chinese Painting of An Old Miao Woman

Inspired from travelling in Miao villages. I like the people there, their costume and their lifestyle.

Farmers from Shaanxi Countryside

These Chinese paintings are inspired by travelling in Shaanxi.

Chinese Painting Practice

Singing Competition



Reflection

Desires Are Like Shadows

Do you think it's hard to shake off the desires?



Chinese ink and wash

Peking Opera Roles -1

Peking opera or Beijing opera (Jīngjù) is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century.

--- wikipedia

This is a new series of illustration I'm working on. In Peking opera there are  four main characters- Sheng(生), Dan(旦), Jing(净), Chou(丑). Read more about it here.



Hua Dan- a young girl full of vivacity and innocence.



Jing- which means all kinds of painted-faces and acts as the male role that has a particular personality or appearance.

Fashion Illustration

Those Women

Cartoon Portraits Commission

These old photos are found in my hard-disk back to the year of 2006 (I know I was quite fat at that time). I was still in university. I worked for a sports  shop during National Holiday for their marketing campaign as what they called "Dalian Young Comic Artist". My job was to draw quick cartoon portraits on T-shirts for the customers who consumed over 400 yuan. It was quite fun. That was my first time to earn money from art.







 

Summer Trip- People

A Miao woman sewing in Langde Village, Guizhou



A woman resting in Renmin Park in Chengdu



A silent old man on Zhongnan Mountain, taking an afternoon nap



A man relaxing from drinking tea in Renmin Park, Chengdu



A grandfather and his grandson resting on the ground in Langde Village, Guizhou



And... the two travellers under each other's pens

Summer Trip- Scenary

Sketches from my summer trip. I was back to Miao villages in Guizhou again which are nice places to escape to from the summer heat.