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The New Traditions

Today is the first day of TheChinese Lunar year.  Many of my friends got very confused and asked me: Is it the Goat year or the Sheep year? Back to Ancient time people used to build the “Goat” statue for this zodiac animal, traditionally should…

The Red of New Spring

Since Chinese New year is coming soon, I made another theme about Red: The red of New Spring. As I said before, Red is one of the most important colours for the Oriental cultures,philosophies and aesthetics.When I was a Child, I used to have red…

Cherry Blossoms II

Oriental traditions inspired works again. Cherry blossoms are the messengers of Spring, they carry the spring here when they blossom, they take the spring away when they leave.  Now that great source of natural inspiration has gone, but I find recently many more inspirations which…

Happy Horse year!

It is Chinese new year now, I wish everyone has a lovely horse year! 各位馬年吉祥如意,馬上有福哦~

Life is a Journey without a Destination.

Certainly I love traveling a lot, but I also think our daily life is a part of journey as well. Our entire life is a journey without a destination, what we experience is indescribable illusion from our mind.   Special Thanks to my dear friends…

Oriental Romanticism.

    Traditional oriental style is still one of the most inspired styles for fashion industry, however, most of designs only shows apparent elements from these recent 300 years such as Qing cheongsam or Edo Kimono style. But actually the most poetic and romantic eras in…

From Paris to Tokyo.

   Although this humid and intense period somehow drove me insane, there are always some great things occurred to encourage me to keep going, such as the Nancy X MarcCain themed t-shirt design issued during Berlin Fashion Week this month. The theme of this shirt…

Hokusai’s "The Great Wave".

As I said , “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is one of my favorite art works from Hokusai.  Of course it is cool to wear the great wave outfit during summer as well. Dress by COS Kimono by WingFree Illustration by Nancy.Z Photography by Dean.B

A family.

  Recently I finished this new painting- A family. They have the same style and similar faces.      The painting contains my perspective and confessions.Certainly I refuse to repeat fancy topics again and again, I don’t want to just say it, using actions to create some real piece…

Blonde boy and white Peony.

 Once I considered about a pure, neat portrait theme like this : A blonde boy in 20s white deco like sailor uniform is holding a bouquet of white peonies amongst the white background. Without any big contrast, everything looks gentle and vague.    Then I finished…