Li Shaoyue's painted snuff bottles feature themes such as human images and landscapes. CHINA DAILY With surgical precision artist produces fantastic images inside a tiny vial, Yang Feiyue reports. Seen from afar, Li Shaoyue wields a thin bamboo stick up and down inside a tiny glass vessel secured steadily in her left hand, as if trying to fish something out …
Evolution of the craft The development of snuff bottles was closely related to interior painting, says Zhang Guangqing, a national arts and crafts master. "Interior painting once relied on a bamboo brush dipped in pigments, making it difficult to control the thickness of lines and variations in solidity," Zhang says. Li was exposed to the charm of the art since …
Li demonstrates interior painting at a school in Zibo, Shandong province. After grasping essential sketching and watercolor skills, Li Shaoyue began to concentrate her mind on Chinese painting. However, images of her father holding her hand doing the interior painting frequently emerged in her mind after her graduation in 2015, especially after her father was yearning for her to return …
Li Shaoyue's painted snuff bottles feature themes such as human images and landscapes. CHINA DAILY It was Xue Jingwan, a master painter, who invented the special bamboo pen in the 1950s and introduced the techniques of hooking, cross-hatching, rubbing, dotting, and coloring from traditional Chinese painting into inside-painted art. As the country is paying more attention to its traditional crafts …