Chinese New Year #art

Posted on January 23, 2020
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Today’s art theme is Chinese New Year. The only thing about Chinese I know is I like the food, they decorate with beautiful lanterns, and often incorporate a dragon in their festivities.  This is the year of the rat according to Google. Anyhow, I worked together these common elements in the scene below.  

Google translated Happy New Year from English to Chinese. Hopefully it’s right. Was I to supposed to have written the text vertically?
Same illustration as above except using Pixelmator photo-editing app I applied an oriental background as a screen overlay. If you look very closely you’ll see the texture of the design. I felt my original needed a little something extra.

Thanks for stopping in with your coffee for a peek at my masterpiece and …oh yeah for not spilling it on my artwork. 😉

It’s a super pleasure to share my newest illustration with you this morning. 😘  Follow me to Rain’s Garden to browse through the gallery of artistry!

I’ll be back tomorrow with an edition of Friday Fun Stuff chockful of giggles, fill-ins, & more! Come join the fun!

X💋X💋, Cathy

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16 thoughts on “Chinese New Year #art”

  1. That’s a great dragon Cathy! So colourful and lively! Great job on the writing. I nearly did the same idea actually!! Thanks for joining in!!

    1. Mimi,

      I thought the text was needed to give my illustration more an authentic Chinese feel. I just hope the translation is right. Wouldn’t it be horrible if it said something bad?

  4. That came out great. We are getting Chinese food on Saturday night and starting the new year over 🙂 XO

  5. Students can actually take Mandarin as a foreign language around these parts. I’d be interested to learn some. Great artwork. Love the dragon.

  11. Hi Cathy, love your Chines pictures, well done. And the music is great, too, I’m listening to it as I type this. I just hope I don’t dream of rats tonight! Have a great day, hugs, Valerie

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