Chi Xingcheng makes sand bottle paintings in the studio. Photo by Zhang Yao
Chi Xingcheng makes sand bottle paintings in the studio. Photo by Zhang Yao
Chi Xingcheng's sand bottle painting "Changbai Mountain". Photo by Zhang Yao
On February 21, Chi Xingcheng, a "post-80s" sand painter in Changchun, made a sand bottle painting in his studio. Chi Xingcheng is a sand painter who came into contact with sand bottle painting in 2014 and has produced more than 1,000 works of various landscapes and figures so far. Chi Xingcheng said that the production of sand bottle painting requires extremely fine techniques, and a variety of colors of fine sand are piled up one by one in transparent glass bottles to achieve the artistic effect of painting.