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| Some still working at their paintings |
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| Art on display in the workshop we painted at |
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| All of us had the same base to start from |
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| Peasant art on display outside the work shops |
Peasant painting on
kiinalainen kansantaide, jota viljelijät harrastavat. Modernia taidetta saimme mekin
kokeilla, kun menimme toiseen kylään vesi kaupungin lähettyvillä, jossa
maalaus-pajat sijaitsevat. Pajan omistivat kiinalainen mukava pariskunta.
Kaikki saimme saman pohjan josta sitten alkaa joko mallin mukaan maalata, tai
sitten käyttäen omaa mielikuvitusta. Itse yritin mallia seurata, mutta jotkut
pienet yksityiskohdat jätin tekemättä, sillä tunnissa en olisi ehtinyt odottaa,
että joka maalikerros kuivuu ennen kun vaihdan väriä. Maali oli helppo käyttää
ja muutenkin kuva oli niin simppeli, että kaikki sen jotenkin saivat toimimaan.
Itse pidin tästä workshopista todella paljon ja ostin kehyksen taululle, joka
maksoi kolmisen euroa. Lisäksi ostin pariskunnalta heidän maalaaman panda
taulun, joka maksoi noin kahdeksan euroa. Kuvat ovat helppoja kopioida, joten
voin itse näitä jatkossakin maalata.
☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Peasant painting is
original folk art made by farmers. It’s a modern art
form and we experienced it one of the villages in Fengjing. At a workshop owned
by a Chinese couple who both are artists we were given the chance to do a
painting ourselves. Or maybe not completely by ourselves, as the base was
already done and we had a finished model we could copy or use as inspiration.
Some did their own thing, but I tried to stick to the original. Some details
were too hard to copy in the one hour we had on us to finish the painting, but
the time was enough. I really enjoyed the workshop and I even bought a frame
for 20rmb so my picture looks even better now. They couple sold paintings they
had made and I bought one with two pandas as a memory of the place. A small
picture cost 60rmb, which for me seemed like a good price. I liked the colors
and the simple style that the art form followed. Some looked really nice as
other were maybe a bit childish, but as they are pretty simple to reconstruct,
I took lots of pictures so I can back home paint them myself.
