Artist of all sorts Young Chinese artist Hong Yi, also known as Red, has never picked up a brush to paint at least one of her paintings.
Artist of Anything Young Chinese artist Hong Yi (Hong Yi), also known as Red, has never picked up a brush to draw at least one of her paintings. To create portraits and illustrations, Hong uses the most unexpected materials - from decorative cosmetics to sunflower seeds.
portraits
Portrait of a favorite singer from the traces of a coffee cup
While listening to a song by popular Taiwanese artist Jay Chou, Hong Yi drank her morning coffee. The song began with a line about a coffee cup being lifted from a saucer and continued with a story about traveling 20 years into the past. Inadvertently placing the cup not on the saucer, but on the white tablecloth, Hong left a bright coffee mark on the white cloth. So the artist came up with the idea to paint a portrait of her favorite singer with the bottom of a coffee cup.
Chinese director Zhang Yimou made of socks
The idea of a sock portrait was born spontaneously: “When I first came to Shanghai, I saw an old residential street and linen hung out of the windows on bamboo sticks to dry, moving in the wind. I thought it was incredibly beautiful.” The artist spent 3 weeks pinning 750 pairs of black, gray and white socks together.
Mark Zuckerberg from books
Having visited the USA for the first time, Hong Yi was very impressed, and she really wanted to portray some famous American. When she turned to her friends on Facebook for advice, she suddenly realized that the owner of this social network should become the hero of her new work.
The paper Zuckerberg took 36 books and 7 days of work.
Singer Adele from melted candles
About 1,500 blue candles and seven hours of work were spent by Hong Yi to create a portrait of the singer Adele. Under the emotional composition Set Fire to the Rain about lost love and a broken heart, the girl melted wax, burning her fingers and hopelessly soiling her favorite pants.
Sunflower seed portrait by Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiweii
The choice for seeds was not accidental. In 2010, Ai Weiwei littered the floor of London's Tate Modern Turbine Room with 100 million sunflower seeds, which were hand-painted and made from porcelain. For her portrait, Hong Yi used ordinary sunflower seeds, which she counted before “drawing”. It took exactly 100,000 seeds to create the short-lived painting.
Portrait of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi from carnations
For flower painting Red used 2,000 plastic cups, which she filled with water and various concentrations of dye. The white carnations put into the cups had only to absorb the paint, and after a while the portrait “appeared”.
Picture painted with a basketball
Using a basketball and paint, the artist painted a portrait of the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming in two hours.
Pens and printer
Using 1,500 A4 sheets, Red scanned the pens, each time transferring them to new drawing. Then all the patterns were printed and glued in a certain way, which amounted to several long ribbons. Hong attached them to the crossbar. When everything was ready, a huge dove appeared before the audience. This project was called "Feathers".
"The Malaysian artist Hong Yi is known throughout the world for her love of drawing, but she does not draw with brushes or pencils, because it's boring, but with everything in the world."
Coffee stain portrait
"Listening to a song by popular Taiwanese artist Jay Chou, 26-year-old Hong Yi drank her morning coffee. The song began with a line about a coffee cup lifted from a saucer, and continued with a story about traveling 20 years into the past. Accidentally placing the cup not on a saucer, but on On a white tablecloth, Hong Yi left a bright coffee mark on the white fabric. So the artist came up with the idea to paint a portrait of her favorite singer with the bottom of a coffee cup. The result was an original sepia painting, which took about 12 hours to create. "
Candle portrait
"About 1500 blue candles and seven hours of work Hong Yi spent on creating a portrait of the singer Adele. Under the emotional composition "Set Fire to the Rain" about lost love and a broken heart, the girl melted wax, burning her fingers and hopelessly soiling her favorite pants."
Flower portrait
"And this time, the artist did without brushes and slate pencils. Food coloring, 2,000 white carnations and plastic cups served as the material for creating a portrait of the Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi. By mixing water with paint in various proportions, Hong Yi achieved a different shade of fresh flowers. "
Sock portrait
"Hong Yi used 750 pairs of socks to create a portrait of Chinese director Zhang Yimou. She spent over 3 weeks pinning black, white and gray socks together. The project was inspired by an old chinese tradition to dry clothes on bamboo sticks fixed on the windows in the lanes of the houses. The artist found it very beautiful and worthy of application in art. I used socks because they small size, inexpensive and more convenient to work with than, for example, T-shirts."
Picture painted with a basketball
"Using a basketball and some paint, an artist painted a portrait of famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming in two hours."
31 days of creativity with food.
"The conditions that the artist herself came up with are simple: you can do whatever you want, but all the work must be done on a white plate and exclusively from food. I must say that photographs of food for Instagram not news, but what Hong Yi does is a real work of art! On her plates, without exaggeration, the whole world, with a variety of characters, plots and stories. People, animals, nature, feelings and even famous paintings found their new and unexpected interpretations. The project is not over yet, and you still have the opportunity to recharge your creativity and inspiration every day with the help of Hong Yi's photos."
"Dutch landscape" (chili, caramel)
"Louis Vuitton Monograms" (mushrooms)
"Circus" (eggshell)
"All You Need Is Love" (cherry tomatoes, caramel)
"Hello Richard Parker!" tiger from Life of Pi (carrot, white radish, prunes)
"Banksy" (nori, apple)
"Morning Garden" (oatmeal, chili, lemon)
"Three Little Pigs" (pasta, cookies, chili, dill, peanut butter)
"Three little pigs" (wolf - coal bread, piglets - beans)
"Three pigs"
"Owl" (red bow)
The Scream by Edvard Munch
Only the girl does not draw at all with a brush with paints.
Mark Zuckerberg "Facebook" Portrait
Her works are created from a wide variety of materials.
Hong Yi received two higher educations: she graduated from the University of Architecture in Melbourne and Technical University Delft in the Netherlands. She is currently working as an architect in Shanghai.
But she became known as an artist, thanks to her extraordinary work.
Candle portrait
About 1,500 blue candles and seven hours of work were spent by Hong Yui to create a portrait of the singer Adele. Under the emotional composition "Set Fire to the Rain" about lost love and a broken heart, the girl waxes, burning her fingers and hopelessly soiling her favorite pants.
Sock portrait.
This is a portrait of the famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou, born from hundreds of socks suspended from a bamboo stick.
The installation was assembled in an old Chinese alley.
"When I first came to Shanghai, I saw an old residential street and linen hanging out of the windows to dry on bamboo sticks, moving in the wind. I thought it was incredibly beautiful."
Flower portrait
And this time the artist did without brushes and leads. The material for creating a portrait of the Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi was food coloring, 2000 white carnations and plastic cups, into which she poured water with paint in various proportions, Hong Yi achieved a different shade of fresh flowers with this.
Aung San Suu Kyi Portrait with 2000 white flowers and Hong Yi red dye
Coffee stain portrait
While listening to a song by popular Taiwanese artist Jay Chou, 26-year-old Hong Yi drank her morning coffee. The song began with a line about a coffee cup being lifted from a saucer and continued with a story about traveling 20 years into the past. Inadvertently placing the cup not on the saucer, but on the white tablecloth, Hong Yi left a bright coffee mark on the white cloth. So the artist came up with the idea to paint a portrait of her favorite singer with the bottom of a coffee cup. The result was an original sepia color painting that took about 12 hours to complete.
Picture painted with a basketball
Using a basketball and paint, the artist painted a portrait of the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming in two hours.
Seed portrait
Sunflower seed portrait by Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiweii.
food illustrations
For her food project, she uses every food imaginable, from fruits and vegetables to delicious Oreo cookies and desserts.
Almost every day, the artist creates and uploads new works to the network. The restrictions are simple - the image must consist entirely of food and only the background - a white plate. Following this framework, the girl managed to create landscapes, paintings with animals, references to pop culture, and even several illustrations for the Three Little Pigs fairy tale.
Hong Yi, nicknamed Red, is a Malaysian artist-architect. She got this nickname because her last name, Hong, sounds like "red" in one of the Chinese dialects.
Yi Hong's grandparents and father left Shanghai in the 60s, during the start of the Cultural Revolution, and moved to Sabah, Malaysia, where she was born and raised. Growing up, she heard stories about how her family and relatives used to live in China, but did not really think about the trip herself.
However, after some time, she still returns to the Celestial Empire, which has become the second largest economy in the world.
After graduating from university, she accepted an offer to stay and work in Shanghai, while planning to work there for no more than a year. A year later, Hong Yi realized that she had merged with the culture, history and people of this country and that she did not want to leave it. At that moment, she decided to try to do something interesting. From improvised means, she began to create portraits of iconic Chinese figures.
Hong Yi is a Master of Architecture from Malburn University, where she was awarded a scholarship for her contribution to the development European art and architecture. She is was a finalist in the Australian national competition SONA Superstudio in 2009 and 2010, where she received the Elenberg Fraser Award for Best Presentation, both years.
She is also known as an artist who " likes to draw, but not with a brush". Her portraits of basketball player Yao Ming and Jay Chou, which were made using coffee, were hits on Youtube as well as in various media around the world, including the Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABC and The Daily Mail. Also to famous works Hong Yi can be attributed to the portraits of Ai Weiwei, made using 100,000 sunflower seeds, and portrait of Zhang Yimou from 750 socks and bamboo sticks.
She currently works in the HASSELL Shanghai office of an Australian architectural firm. He likes to do architecture by day and be an artist by night.
Hong Yi's latest work as an artist is exotic birds, made with petals of different colors, mainly gerberas, as well as grasses and branches. Every month she tries to find new material for your work, you can follow her experiments not only on her blog or official website, but also on Instagram, her nickname redhongyi.
Hong Yi aka Red is a talented young artist. Only the girl does not draw at all with a brush with paints.
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Her works are created from a wide variety of materials.
Hong Yi received two higher educations: she graduated from the University of Architecture in Melbourne and the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. Until recently, she worked as an architect in Shanghai. But she became known as an artist, thanks to her extraordinary work.
Candle portrait
About 1,500 blue candles and seven hours of work were spent by Hong Yui to create a portrait of the singer Adele. Under the emotional composition "Set Fire to the Rain" about lost love and a broken heart, the girl waxes, burning her fingers and hopelessly soiling her favorite pants.
When I first came to Shanghai, I saw an old residential street and linen hung out to dry from the windows on bamboo sticks, moving in the wind. I thought it was incredibly beautiful.
Flower portrait
And this time the artist did without brushes and leads. The material for creating a portrait of the Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi was food coloring, 2000 white carnations and plastic cups, into which she poured water with paint in various proportions, Hong Yi achieved a different shade of fresh flowers with this.
Coffee stain portrait
While listening to a song by popular Taiwanese artist Jay Chou, 26-year-old Hong Yi drank her morning coffee. The song began with a line about a coffee cup being lifted from a saucer and continued with a story about traveling 20 years into the past. Inadvertently placing the cup not on the saucer, but on the white tablecloth, Hong Yi left a bright coffee mark on the white cloth. So the artist came up with the idea to paint a portrait of her favorite singer with the bottom of a coffee cup. The result was an original sepia color painting that took about 12 hours to complete.
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Picture painted with a basketball
Using a basketball and paint, the artist painted a portrait of the famous Chinese basketball player Yao Ming in two hours.
Seed portrait
Sunflower seed portrait by Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiweii.
If you remember, Ai Weiweii himself covered the floor in 2010 London gallery Tate Modern millions of sunflower seeds that were made from porcelain.
food illustrations
For her food project, she uses every food imaginable, from fruits and vegetables to delicious Oreo cookies and desserts.
Almost every day, the artist creates and uploads new works to the network. The restrictions are simple - the image must consist entirely of food and only the background - a white plate. Following this framework, the girl managed to create landscapes, paintings with animals, references to pop culture, and even several illustrations for the Three Little Pigs fairy tale.
The project is ongoing, you can follow it, for example, on Instagram.