Today is a small year in the south, and there is a custom to paste the new year painting to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to drive away evil spirits and blessings. Is your home all set up? City Express specially invited Chinese and foreign artists to paint the New Year and celebrate the New Year with their creations, and let's feel the strong New Year flavor of the paving!
Costa Rican artist S. Mauricio Prado's "Hundred Tigers"
The Fuhumen god of Hangzhou young artist Wang Geng
Costa Rican artist S. Mauricio Prado (Chinese name: Mao Mao) draws "Hundred Tiger Maps" for the readers of the Express newspaper to celebrate the New Year, and wishes everyone an auspicious Year of the Tiger.
For this "Hundred Tigers Map", Mao Mao painted day and night for more than a week, first setting the tone, and then laying out the color little by little. Zooming in on this picture, you will find many interesting little details that are worth savoring slowly; you can also feel the artist's painstaking efforts and talents beyond the overflowing paper.
Let's take a look at how this painting was done!
"First of all, the tone of the whole painting is the tiger, because next year is the year of the tiger. At the same time, I also want to bring some magic to this painting. Mao Mao said.
"At this time, I thought of an American artist, VEXX, who took some inspiration from his cool works, VEXX combined realist artistic techniques and designed a lot of colorful graffiti art."
"So in my work, in addition to a group of small tigers, I also want to add some small elements that represent spring, such as small flowers in full bloom and elements to celebrate the Chinese New Year."
"Readers can read the newspaper while looking for the small details inside. I hope to bring a smile to everyone who sees my work. ”
Mao Mao has been in Hangzhou for six years, and in addition to painting, he is also an excellent dancer. Mao Mao's painting style is diverse, imaginative, and is recognized as a "talented" artist (talented artist) in the industry, who is proficient in hand-drawn, computer painting and so on, all of which are self-honking.
I wish Mao Mao success in his dream search in Hangzhou in the new year!
Hair Self-Portrait
Fu Hu is coming!
For four consecutive years, we have invited Hangzhou young painter Wang Geng to customize a pair of special cartoon zodiac door gods for The Readers of The City Express, and this year is no exception.
Move your hands, cut out the door god printed in the newspaper of the day, and paste your exclusive "Fuhu Gate God" on the door. A mention of the door god always gives people the feeling of "old bottom"? Wang Geng said that in fact, combining traditional and young people's favorite things, the door god can also be very fashionable.
This year, the pair of Humen gods designed by Wang Geng continued the consistent "Meng" style. Domineering with a bit of cuteness, auspicious and festive. Wang Geng said that a golden tiger and a white tiger both have the meaning of auspiciousness. In the year of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, he hopes that everyone will add wings to the New Year, peace and joy.
Inside the Humen God, there are still a lot of green elements on the body, "all the way green code, too important", in addition, Wang Geng also cleverly implanted the "K" element exclusive to the express, did you find it?
Fu Hu arrived, Fu Came. In the new year, I wish you all the dragons and tigers, tigers and tigers!
Orange Persimmon Interactive City Express reporter Wu Yuehua Yu Xiwen