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Yinghe Road Food Street, Cherry Guo School... Under the epidemic, the city has also been "quiet", what do these places that were originally full of noisy fireworks look like now? On April 18, the Dahe Newspaper Yu video reporter learned that Yuan Xiaozhen, an illustrator from his hometown in Linying County, Luohe City, recorded this unforgettable scene with his own brush.
【Home to visit relatives, stranded due to the epidemic】
"On March 23, we returned to our hometown to visit our relatives, and we originally planned to stay for 1 day, but when we wanted to drive the next day, we found that the road was closed." Yuan Xiaozhen told reporters that she is now settled in Zhengzhou, and according to relevant regulations, she and her husband can only turn around and return home, and have lived until now.
As an illustrator, Yuan Xiaozhen likes to scribble and retain materials in her spare time, so she came up with the idea of painting her hometown. "Because I didn't think about it so much when I came back, I didn't bring any painting materials and paints, so I looked around and made a set." Yuan Xiaozhen said that if there is no drawing board, he will wrap tape with a paper shell; if there is no color palette, he will use the porcelain plate at home instead; without a paintbrush and paint, he will find a little niece to borrow the painting materials drawn by children...
Courtyards, schools, parks... Under Yuan Xiaozhen's brush, the original ordinary street landscape jumped out of the paper, and it was exquisite. "This is the first time I have experienced the life of Linying after graduating and leaving home." Yuan Xiaozhen told reporters that while creating the painting, she also recorded her "Lockdown Diary" with a video, which was posted on the video number and douyin named "Xiaozhen Painted Life", which triggered many netizens to like and forward.
【To show gratitude, paint and send "big white"】
While recording the small city of Linying, Yuan Xiaozhen did not forget to record the figures of medical staff and volunteers. "We need to do nucleic acid every day in the street garden of Yucai Road Community in Xincheng Street, and we are extremely touched to see 'Dabai' and volunteers working so hard." Yuan Xiaozhen said that in order to express her gratitude, she specially created a painting.
The reporter saw that on the painting called "Green" created by Yuan Xiaozhen, it painted a lush tree, warm and warm sunshine, medical staff busy doing nucleic acids, volunteers who maintained order, and citizens waiting in line to do nucleic acids.
On the morning of April 13, after another round of nucleic acid testing, Yuan Xiaozhen took advantage of the gap between medical staff resting and sent the painting to the medical staff of Linying County People's Hospital. "At that time, the 'big white' was very happy after picking up, even said 'very good', and gave me a thumbs up." Yuan Xiaozhen said that he was extremely happy to see that his paintings could bring warmth to medical staff.
【Going to Xinjiang to support teaching, with pictures for female writers in Linying】
The reporter learned that Yuan Xiaozhen, 39 years old this year, began to learn to paint since the third year of junior high school, and after graduating from Zhengzhou University in 2005 with a major in oil painting, she went to Xinjiang to support teaching in order to chase her dreams, and then went to Beijing and other cities to work. In 2008, Yuan Xiaozhen returned to Zhengzhou to develop and settled down.
In 2016, the novel "Duowan" created by Zhou Xuanpu, a female writer from Linying, was about to be published, and by chance, Yuan Xiaozhen was found to accompany the book, yuan Xiaozhen created a group of illustrations related to his hometown Luohe, and two female artists from Linying collided with the spark of art.
Today, Yuan Xiaozhen is a column illustrator of China Women's Overseas Magazine, mainly engaged in illustration, book illustration, commercial illustration and other content, she starts from a unique female perspective, and is good at using romantic and emotional themes to express painting. He has collaborated with well-known writers such as Zhou Guoping, Cao Wenxuan, and Wu Zhihong, and has also painted illustration covers for Zhao Nanzhu's "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982" and Junichi Watanabe's "The Last Flight to Paris".
"After 26 days at home, I felt a lot, I used to think that the food street was noisy here, but now I miss the bustling fireworks." Yuan Xiaozhen said that he also hopes that the epidemic can pass as soon as possible and regain the liveliness in his paintings.