One evening last summer, I met with a few friends in the yard of my home to eat and chat, and to eat melons to cool down. The porch light through the glass slightly illuminated the yard of a large vegetable field; talk and laugh have been able to hear bursts of insects, the sound of the time far and near, but also seems to come from outside the courtyard wall; a few large trees attached to the courtyard wall surrounded a deep sky, embedded in the top of a bend of the moon, and sometimes there are airplanes flashing a small light slowly sliding past like a star,...... a wind blowing the The leaves overhead, rustling, the body felt refreshed. Taking advantage of the moon to the wind, buried head to chew a big mouthful of watermelon, this night's sweet and cool to drill into the heart.
"You here in the idyllic life is too comfortable, every time the work is tired want to come to you here to sit, eat some drink, do not think about anything ......" live in the city of the editor of the old Chen, the side of the melon while eating chanting. "Hungry Dreams Among the Grass! That's the name of my next book, what do you think?" I held up the watermelon to him and said, "The thing about Kusama, now that both Kusama Dwelling Tour and Kusama Love Story are available, it's just a matter of eating and drinking!" Old Chen froze for a moment, asked a few times what is "hungry", and then laughed out loud, and then also raised the watermelon: "How about making a book of watermelon, a book for summer, for the here and now."
I can not imagine, a summer night sweltering heat caused by the intersection of the brain, and now really grow into a big watermelon.
I don't like to blow air conditioning in the summer, so my drawing room will be relatively hot. I paint watermelon is to eliminate the summer heat, and sometimes also painted lychee, cherries, strawberries and other fruits, but the watermelon seems to be obsessed with, painted the most, from five or six years ago, every year in the summer to paint some of them, often to achieve "look at the watermelon to quench the thirst of the efficacy of the". Painting watermelons are bigger than people, like a small mountain, but also like a small house, people are enjoying eating melon, do not have to worry about propping up their stomachs, it is really an ideal world for foodies!
Watermelon painting in a long time, every year do not paint it summer is not complete, like the summer you do not painfully eat a few times watermelon, it is basically equal to white. Sometimes in order to draw more vividly, but also specifically bought a watermelon, eating while painting, that bite of sweet taste is also infiltrated into the painting, and ink and coloring together. Although the brushwork is clumsy, I hope the painting can directly convey the joy and satisfaction of eating watermelon.
As I drew, I began to think of watermelon seeds, flesh, rind, and other things in our lives, and I realized that seeds can be raindrops, flesh can be clouds, and rind can be the coat of many things. ...... It seems like "everything can be a melon! It is as if "everything can be a melon". The first thing you need to do is to look at things in terms of melons, as if they were a dream, and they become a curiosity in their own right.
I like the watermelon red and green with, respectively, refers to the things inside and outside, which is a pair of colors can be spatialized. The green is smooth, the red is rough, and the texture is opposite.
I think watermelon seeds are also very interesting, they have been my childhood memory of a somewhat annoying inedible things, but spitting melon seeds will also give people a kind of pain and spontaneity. Too many seeds are annoying, and too few don't feel good. Maybe watermelon seeds for the flesh of the watermelon, it does have a refreshing effect. Small and hard, show the soul.
The flesh of the watermelon is the most delicious and most malleable material. It's like a sponge, looks like a solid thing, but is actually a bubble of juice. Maybe it's more accurate to say it's like jelly, because it can easily crumble into two pieces. No, it might just be another form of soil that exists, red soil that is a cavern when dug with a spoon, how similar it is to digging a kiln cave chamber. It can be dug into any shape you dare to think of.
Melon rind always gives a feeling of being unsubstantial, because it is indeed a bit slippery. Utilizing this characteristic well, the melon skin however can also naturally slide in water, waves, and snow. The lovely thing is that the melon skin exists to protect the flesh and seeds of the melon, is a big ball shell, has a very good potential for space molding, is responsible for the role of responsibility, just like the eggshell, are afraid of falling.
This little book, in addition to a glimpse of their own watermelon eaten by the dream, but also attentively excerpted Tao Yuanming, Wang Wei, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Lu You, Zhu Yunming, Yuan Mei and so on, the ancient people lived in the summer. These classical poems, folk songs and music were all born in summer, some are muggy and miserable, some are refreshing and cozy, and they are arranged in the order of the changing seasons. Because I felt that the computer fonts were still lacking in soul, I used a brush to copy down one of my favorite parts of each poem, and although the words were not perfect, they seemed to fit the feeling of the dream world being upside down and erratic. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.