Chinese Green Bamboo Portrait

Chinese Bamboo

This is a nice painting of natural bamboo.

It's always hard to get a good picture of artwork - this painting looks much better in real life

In Southern China, bamboo is very important as it is used to build houses, small bridges, and is even used for day to day things like chopsticks.

Sandy meets with famous Chinese baqmboo artist, Shao Dan in his studio near Xi'an in the Shaanxi Province of China.

Bamboo has a deeper meaning in Chinese culture. Bamboo represents the aspects to a true noble gentleman. Bamboo is straight (honest), and Chinese people also believe that bamboo represents the modesty, strength, and it never gives up because it continues to grow taller and taller. All of the traits of a good man.

Created by "Wang Bing Zhong" who paints under the pen name "Shao Dan".
The artist is from Gansu Province, but lives near Xi'an in the Shaanxi province of China. He is a very famous traditional artist for painting bamboo portraits in China.

This is freehand green watercolor mixed with special black Chinese ink on rice paper with unique tropical-pattern silk matting.