Henan News: "What we are painting now is landscape painting, an average of more than 100 yuan a piece, up to 300 yuan ..." On November 1, In Shiqiao Village, Shiqiao Town, Baofeng County, Henan Province, Zhang Sujuan, a villager who was seriously creating stone paintings, said.
Shiqiao Town is located in the eastern part of Baofeng County, along the Beiru River for more than 20 kilometers. In recent years, relying on the rich advantages of cobblestone resources, the town has opened up ideas, dared to practice, "made a big fuss" on the stone, developed the "stone painting" industry, and created a "stone painting town".
Stone painting, as the name suggests, is to paint on stone, accustomed to painting on paper, it is not simple to paint on stone. First of all, you need to choose the right stone, you must have a good finish, the shape of the stone is relatively regular, after cleaning, drying, with white acrylic pigment on the stone to lay the base color after drying, then with a pencil composition, then colored five to six times, and finally treated with bright polish. The themes of the creation are mainly landscape animals, flowers, birds, insects and fish, cultural celebrities, and honest lotuses, so that everyone who comes to Shiqiao can feel the charm of the "stone painting" industry.
The town has set up a stone painting training base in Shiqiao Village, which is trained free of charge by professional teachers, and the stone paintings created by the villagers are uniformly acquired by the company and sold through e-commerce live broadcasts. Up to now, the "stone painting" industry has driven more than 100,000 people to increase their income and become rich.
The big stage in the countryside, the industry has a new color. Next, Shiqiao Town, Baofeng County, will continue to base itself on resource endowments, develop characteristic advantageous industries, paint a beautiful new scenery of Chinese peasant life on the cobblestones, and depict a new picture of rural revitalization with a huge brush like rafters. (Dou Chuanyang)