Cleaning and painter, two seemingly unrelated "roles", were connected by a post-60s aunt.
Wang Liuyun, a 53-year-old aunt who came to Beijing two years ago from his hometown in Loudi, Hunan Province, worked as a cleaner in an office building in the North Third Ring Road. If you talk to her about Du Fu, Huang Gongwang, and Wang Ximeng, her eyes will glow.
During the day as a cleaner, she is hard-working and can't talk much; after work, she will pick up scrap and then use a small scooter to pull to the waste station; in the dead of night, she will move a small open space in her 6-square-meter rental house and begin to use a paintbrush to depict the imagination in her mind.
Painting was Wang Liuyun's dream when he was young, but because he was born in the countryside and his family was poor, he even read high school for half a year. Then she went through a variety of events, such as starting a business, getting married and having children, and her husband squandering all her savings and dying in a car accident.
After that, Wang Liuyun began to work alone and take the children alone, without the passion of the original entrepreneurship, and only wanted to live this life plainly. It wasn't until a chance that she came into contact with oil painting. Looking at the wonderful scenery in other people's paintings, rekindling her inner enthusiasm, life is too short, can not go to the place can be painted, painted, even if the heart has gone, the so-called "body and soul, there must be one on the road."
So at the age of 50, Wang Liuyun picked up her dream of painting, bought books to read, learned on the Internet, and slowly explored. With no money to buy a picture frame, she nailed the canvas to the wall to paint. In the small rental house, I silently learned oil painting, which was three years.
"When I first learned oil painting, I mainly copied some famous paintings, and at this stage, I combined copying and creation, and during the working day, I painted at night, sometimes until dawn."
Since 2021, Wang Liuyun has begun to post her works on the Internet, gained a lot of recognition and attention, and also began to have people looking for her to buy paintings, for the income brought by these concerns, she is also very sober, rather than money she hopes to bring herself some learning opportunities: "If you want to paint something, I think it is unlikely that there will be twenty or thirty years." I'm only three years old at the moment and still have a long way to go. ”
Regarding the meaning of painting, Wang Liuyun said: "The starting point of life is different, we may not be able to escape the fate of suffering, but do not be discouraged because of this." To keep going, you also have to stop occasionally and admire the flowers on the side of the road. ”
Coincidentally, in a county town in Anhui, there is also a "Burrow Painter" like Wang Liuyun, who is called Mingguang, collects waste products during the day and insists on painting oil paintings at night.
Born in 1972, Wei Guangming liked to draw since he was a child, and in the third grade of primary school, he often copied comic strips such as Journey to the West and Water Margin, but it was also because of limited economic conditions that he did not systematically study.
Until 2016, a long-term boss knew that he could paint, so he gave him 300 yuan and asked him to help paint a landscape oil painting, but The Bright Man, who had not taken a paintbrush for more than ten years, never painted a work that satisfied himself. It was also this experience that sparked his enthusiasm for learning oil painting.
He added a lot of painting to learn to communicate with the group, but also bought a lot of books related to oil painting, at the beginning is to follow the paintings on the book, do not know how to color, draw out of the things are particularly blunt, later, he used his mobile phone to check the tutorial on oil painting, learn other people's composition and color grading, often a look is a night.
Every morning at six o'clock, the light began to go out to collect waste, until eight o'clock in the evening, he closed the door after a busy day of returning home, and began to paint, often painting for several hours, sometimes even painting all night without sleeping.
Many people who see Ming Guangming's works think that he can reach the current level of painting by self-study, which is completely talented. However, Wei Guangming said that the reason why he can achieve today's achievements is that his love for painting is far greater than talent.
Whether it is for Wang Liuyun or Ming Guangming, painting is not only a hobby, but also a source of energy in their inner world.
As a bright man said, "A person must find something to enrich his heart, and the abundance of the spiritual world can make a person live a more exciting life." ”