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Yangliuqing New Year Paintings are made by "half-printing, half-painting", i.e., the lines of the picture are carved out of a woodblock first, then printed on paper with ink, and then filled in with colorful brushes after two or three monochromatic prints are set.

The history of Yangliuqing New Year Painting can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (from the late 17th century to the early 18th century), when farmers in the region created this characteristic folk painting in the form of family workshops. After hundreds of years of inheritance and development, Yangliuqing New Year Painting has gradually formed an art form with strong local characteristics and unique painting styles, and has become one of the important schools of Chinese folk painting.

Yangliuqing New Year Painting is famous for its delicate and exquisite lines, bright and vivid colors and unique style of subjects, and has an important position in the Chinese painting world. It is usually painted on silk or rice paper, with watercolor as the main painting medium, and covers a variety of folk life scenes, stories, characters, flowers and birds. The creation and inheritance of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings have been supported and promoted, and they are now highly recognized and valued artistically both in mainland China and overseas, and are considered to be one of China's outstanding folk painting cultural heritages.

Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, with its unique charm, is now mainly used in the following scenarios:

1. Art creation and display: Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, as a folk art form with strong local characteristics and unique painting style, is often used for artists to create and display.

2, decorating home: Yangliuqing New Year paintings are often used to decorate home space with their delicate and exquisite lines and bright colors. People can frame various works into murals, wall paintings or screens and place them in living rooms, bedrooms and other places to add artistic atmosphere and beauty to the rooms.

3. Gifts and souvenirs: Due to the artistic characteristics and cultural connotations of Yangliuqing New Year paintings, their works are often used to make gifts and souvenirs.

4, Cultural promotion and tourism souvenirs: Yangliuqing, as a traditional Chinese folk painting art, is closely connected with Yangliuqing town in Qingdao. In Qingdao area, the works of Yangliuqing are often used as an important element of cultural promotion and tourism souvenir.

Method of making Yangliuqing New Year Paintings

1, Sketching: first make a simple sketch on rice paper or silk to determine the overall layout and structure.

2. Outlining: Use a fine brush or a fine-tipped brush to outline the lines and contours of the picture with ink lines. The lines of Yangliuqing New Year paintings are characterized by delicacy and refinement.

3. Coloring: Choose suitable watercolor pigments and use a fine brush to color. The pigments are required to be bright and vivid, and the artist needs to match the colors according to the requirements of the picture to create a coordinated and beautiful effect.

4, coloring: on the basis of coloring, you can add a sense of three-dimensionality and hierarchy to the picture through techniques such as gradation, layering and rendering. This requires meticulous processing and appropriate color transitions.

5. Stippling: Use a fine-tipped brush dipped in paint to draw tiny flowers, blades of grass and other details on the screen, enriching the image with stippling techniques and adding a delicate texture.

6, complementary colors: according to the needs of the picture, complementary colors and modification, to enhance the overall effect and coordination of the picture.

7, finish: finally sign on the screen, the work is complete.