These are 500 portraits full of tears of farewell during the graduation season. The children in the paintings are either smiling cheerfully, or shyly pouting and looking to one side, or holding their cheeks in their hands and wearing birthday hats...the faces of all the children. and personality traits were accurately captured by two art teachers, recorded with brushes, and given to all graduating students as graduation gifts.
Li Yawei and Shen Yunqing, art teachers in the primary school department of Xi'an Binhe School, agreed at the beginning of the year to draw a bust portrait for all students graduating this year. "There was a period of time that was so difficult. I thought this big project would be unfinished. "Teacher Li Yawei said.
Li Yawei is responsible for the art classes of 7 classes, so she has to draw 350 pictures. "What I draw is Chinese painting style. Any extra ink dots or mistakes or omissions of names in the inscriptions have to be redrawn. It took me three or four times to complete many of the children's paintings." Seeing the children get their own Li Yawei's tears kept flowing as she drew pictures, took photos with parents and teachers, and even came forward to joke a few words from time to time.
"Not only did Teacher Shen and I draw, I also invited two big names to help. He Yafeng, the school's Chinese teacher, could summarize it with poetry every time he wrote quality report books for students, so I asked Vice Principal Zhou Juntang to write ink , Teacher He provided messages based on the children’s names, and finally completed all the portraits,” Li Yawei told reporters.
Shen Yunqing's major in university is not painting, but art education. Whenever she has free time, she loves to paint watercolors, landscapes and figures, and she has been painting for 5 years. However, this was Shen Yunqing's first experience of painting 150 portraits at once.
Shen Yunqing never thought that he could have such a deep relationship with the children. “The most impressive time during this year’s graduation season was the last art class in Class 8, Grade 6. I didn’t teach the children anything that day, I just talked with them. We had a chat, but one girl cried for the whole class," Shen Yunqing said.
draws at least 1 picture at a time and at most 4 pictures. Shen Yunqing said that although the portraits she painted are relatively small, each child is a 32K watercolor painting, but each one takes an hour. It was not until the night before the graduation ceremony at the end of June this year that all 500 works were completed. Shen Yunqing and Li Yawei watched all the teachers find the painting belonging to the child according to the student number, and then watched the children carefully identify the paintings one by one. The portrait doesn't look like myself.
At the graduation ceremony, children and parents kept making their teachers cry. "Teacher, you are so good at this painting of mine. I have gained weight recently. This is when I was most beautiful!" "Teacher, am I really that fat?" "Teacher, the words on the painting are me. Thank you, teacher, for looking forward to the children."
Li Yawei said that in the past six years, the teachers have watched this class of children grow from cute and adorable "little Doudou" to sensible and sunny teenagers. This gift is What is left to the children is full of memories and the joy of growing up. Huashang Daily reporter Li Xinyi
