Chinese Water Art "Four Seasons"

My mom has many telnet on handicraft and art. Here, I introduce her last year Chinese Watercolor Art "Four Seasons". She never had special training on paintings, however her hand painting all are our family's precious. She had the four pieces done during her illness days, because she wanted to give me as 2007 new year's gift at the time I went back to visit her. The painting was done by my mom and the writing was done by my dad.

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Winter

The Chinese Face-Painting Art

Over 10 years ago, a couple gave this beautiful and precious face-painting art piece to our family as a Christmas gift. They bought it in Hong Kong during The Second World War. Today, I would love to share the art to you.

The Chinese face-paintin art was developed from the mask painting art which was initiated by Lang-Ling Hwang in the Pei-Gee dynasty and by Wu-Hsiang Dee in the Song dynasty. The painted masks were originally used in the fields of battle to make dreadful figures to frighten the enemy. Later on the masks were employed in the stage to show.

Social standing and disposition of characters. Owing to difficulty and inconvenience of manufacturing and wearing masks, the colors were directly painted on the faces, afterwards. Generally speaking, the face without painting represents faithful and nice fellows, the multi-colored face represents wicked people, the red face represents loyal and straight characters, the black face represent bravery and preseverance. The buffoons are painted with coloured spots. Up to now, there are many types of face-painting. The Tien-Kong Arts Association is the now painting various faces of Chinese historical figures for the purpose of popular enjoyment.

Drawing Made By A 16 Years Old Girl

The drawings here were from a 16 year-old girl, who never had special trainings on drawing. However, she used her sense to tell us what is beauty.





Black and blue only design brought the elegant to me.


















A simple red dress on a model, express "simple is pretty".

















A space for thinking.
















A different style of beauty.