New Portrait

watercolor on paper

Old Drawings

The player happened to play Daydream's piano music. The very past burst to my mind.When I was in uni, I hated accounting as my major. At that time I skipped classes to stay in the dorm to draw. With music, I kept drawing different portraits one after another, sometimes with tears dropping. My heart continued to be sensitive. Drawing was the way to let my sentiments out. It was my way to heal. I couldn't help looking back at some old drawings drawn at that time, about 5-6 years ago.

Once there was a girl,

You've no ideas what she'd been through

You don't know she was such something blue

a bird singing gloomy songs

The first time her wings broke

she realised she actually had them in two

The first time her heart broke

she believed her feelings were so true

that others could hurt but could never deprive

From then on, she started the long trip seeking home

Rather suffered than numb

--- Robin





















listening to Dreaming

"I'm Rich"

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Cold Seashore

Get Summer Back

It snowed again, heavily. I'd like to get more warmth a bit through thinking of some summer colour. So I did these.

Frost

Many eyes are covered by the splendid world

not be able to see the truth

The truth lies in the heart

only if you listen to its rhyme

you could be free

 

Listening to Chris Garneau's So Far

More Paintings of Miao People

A Golden Dream

by colour pencils and watercolour

A Golden Dream

In this painting, I tried a different style by only using colour pencils.



And the detail of the painting



 

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. 

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.

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.

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.







 

Chinese Beauty

This is my new painting from the other day.Inspired by a Chinese TV series. I like the traditional costumes in it.



watercolour on 260g paper

Portrait

Portraits for Marlene and Liza

Before I left Dalian,I was commissioned to do portraits for these two beautiful Argentinian sisters-Marlene and Liza as souvenir presents before they returned home. It brought me some fun in that freezing season.I was asked to do something Chinese at the background.Here are what I got.Happy to see that they liked them.

You Never Know What's Next

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I'm back home from the one month travelling.Got much to deal with here at home before leaving again.Yes I'm leaving again.This time is not travelling but something else more like "moving  or living away"-whatever you call it.

Life likes to pull our legs.It can throw you far away, deep to the bottom of desperation and then in the next swirl,it pulls you back to a garden full of roses in bloom.There is a surprise around the next corner waiting for you.You never know,what you will be brought to.My poor little broken toe became a "lucky break".Without it,I would be probably on the way heading to Beijing right now and more years would be there for me to wait for...

Don't hold expectations for life.
If you do,it will let you down.Since none of us is a prophet.

Watery Blue

月亮好蓝，

不是我上的色，

而是我不能掌控我的心毒。