Flowers have always been an indispensable source of inspiration for artists, whether they are in bud, delicate and delicate, or swaying in bright pink and green.

Painters are obsessed with preserving their most touching moments. Local artist Liao Xiaoping is one of them. In addition to being good at depicting various "flowers" with watercolors, he also hopes to explore different media to capture the beauty of flowers. Beauty is taken to another level.

Painter Liao Xiaoping said: "I think the life form of flowers has many similarities with life. From budding, to blooming, to decline, if you look at it magnified, it is the process of a flower blooming. When we go from the blooming to the decline of a flower, When we understand life, we will become very calm when facing many good times, bad times or the future. Maybe my personal experience and my understanding of life allow me to get some similarities from flowers."

Liao Xiaoping believes: "When we paint, there may be many things we like to paint, and it's just a matter of choice. As I said just now, the first one is the feeling of flowers blooming and falling and the inner feelings, plus Hong Kong There are relatively few painters who paint flowers, so the combination of the two has prompted me to choose to focus on painting flowers. Perhaps the most suitable material for painting flowers is watercolor. First of all, when I think of flowers, they are related to "softness". , is the gentle "softness", and the water nature of watercolor can give the best combination to flowers. It conveys a kind of feeling, and the most expressive thing about watercolor is that it is not so realistic in painting. As for flowers, I think most flower paintings tend to be more feminine, but I will use some more rigid brushstrokes to reflect their soft yet strong strength.”

Liao Xiaoping continued: "This is how I view painting. I feel that painting is my life. It is just a part of my life. It may be because of my childhood dreams. From the time I created... maybe 30 years ago or 20 , 30 years ago, I started to lose it, and then I went to work in a company, and also worked as a civil servant for more than ten years, so I gave up my creative work during this period. It was not until later, when I chose to be a full-time painter, that I came to Hong Kong. I came here to draw, so during this process, I may have had a vengeful impulse, basically drawing everything I had come into contact with before, or seen, or thought about, but had never drawn. After all, what I prefer is to enjoy the process, this is my life.”

Do mothers have a box of watercolor pens (also known as water-based color pens) at home so that their children can paint and kill time when they are bored? But in fact, kindergarten teachers generally don’t like to let children use watercolor pens, and professional children’s art classrooms are even less likely to have watercolor pens as a painting tool, so most of the works children take home are crayon paintings! But why not watercolor pencils? Caoji, a Taiwanese kindergarten teacher and graphic writer, shared the reasons on IG, which attracted the approval of many professional teachers and mothers. This time, Niu Editor will compile and share these 8 "reasons why watercolor pens are not encouraged"! 1. Too easy to color The characteristic of watercolor pens is that they are very convenient to use, and you can draw full colors with only very light effort. However, this is an advantage and a fatal disadvantage, because preschool children need more muscle training, and drawing can improve hand skills. The small muscles grow and train the child to control the strength of the fingers and wrists. However, as long as the watercolor pen is picked up and swiped casually, the color will be very dark, and the child will not be able to use the hand muscles! 2. Unable to mix colors One of the joys of painting is to match colors with each other, but watercolor pens cannot mix colors. Overlapping multiple colors together will stain the tip of the pen, and it is easy to wear out the paper and make the colors dark and ugly. More importantly, What's more, children can't use watercolor pens to dye, so they can't learn the principle of color mixing. (That’s why a box of watercolor pens contains so many colors, because there’s no way to mix new colors!) 3. Single strokes Just as Teacher Caoji demonstrated, no matter whether the watercolor pen is applied horizontally, vertically, lightly or heavily, the painting will look the same, very single, but crayons and colored pencils can use different angles and strengths to hold the pen. Light and heavy strokes are used to present different strokes, allowing children to have more choices and discoveries during the painting process. Related articles: Not to despise the poor, but excellent children are all raised by wealth! Being raised poor has caused him to have low self-esteem for a lifetime (click to enlarge the view) ▼▼▼+144. Produce plastic waste Because watercolor pens contain pigments, they are packed in plastic, which generates a lot of plastic waste. However, crayons are usually packed in paper boxes + paper rolls, and color pencils are packed in bare metal boxes and are gone after use. Will cause environmental burden. After Teacher Caoji posted the above article, he received many replies from teachers and mothers, saying that these are not the only shortcomings of watercolor pens. Others include: 5. Easy to break and dry out. Watercolor pens are really easy to dry out, even when not in use or used. I don’t know how to store them at all! If one of the children uses too much force and the pen tip is very bifurcated, if one color is broken, you will have to buy a new box, which is very inconvenient! 6. Painting until the clothes cannot be washed off When children are drawing, if they accidentally draw on clothes, tables, even walls, or TVs, it will be difficult to wash them off. Unlike colored pencils, which can be wiped clean with an eraser, oil crayons can also be washed off with makeup remover, baking soda powder, etc. . Related articles: Daughter secretly praises the handsome male waiter. The crazy dad actually confesses to her. The hilarious story has a follow-up (click to enlarge to view) Watercolor pens are usually packaged in opaque plastic. From the outside, you can’t tell how many are left or whether they are broken or good. Every time you take them out, you have to try painting each one, which makes the preparatory work a bit troublesome. 8. Children will not want to try other drawing tools Because watercolor pens are so convenient and easy to use, children will find it very frustrating and difficult to use other painting tools (because they are difficult to control or cannot draw colors), and they are unwilling to use other color pens to draw, thus losing their Opportunities to learn about different ways of creating. The above are 8 reasons why the use of watercolor pens is not encouraged. It can be seen that teachers prefer to use colored pencils and crayons. 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Paint a superhero with watercolors! This is the work of Blule Clémentine, a French art illustrator. He majored in industrial design in college. Now he is 37 years old and has two children and has settled in Sydney, Australia. Blule is quite cute. He teaches everyone how to draw such unique watercolor paintings on his official website. Now let us follow his steps and start painting! Step analysis~~~ 1. Take a piece of beautiful Indian watercolor paper and make sure there are no small flaws! 2. Take a deep breath before writing! What you need to focus on at this time is far more important than the work, your housework, or even your milk and cocoa that you worry about all day long. 3. Take your pencil and quickly draw the outline you want. Remember: the eraser should not appear if it can't appear. 4. Then take a deep breath, because you are ready to color. Use French high-grade watercolor paint to apply the color you want without making any mistakes, because you can't use an eraser and you can't cover it up with other papers. All you have is a piece of paper! 5. Now it’s time to splash some ink! This is Blule Clémentine’s favorite part, but remember not to be too arrogant! Otherwise it will still ruin your painting>< 6. Let it dry in the sun. If it happens to rain, you will have to change the day! 7. Finally, pick a frame you like! This article comes from》http://flipermag.com/2014/06/06/clementine/ Author》Grace C