Original Art Stories - Xueling Zou

Dream in the Night — Interpreted by Xu YuanChong Abed, I see a silvery light, I wonder if it's frost aground. Looking up, I find the moon bright; Bowing, in homesickness I'm drowned. 静夜思 — 李白 床前明月光， 疑是地上霜。 举头望明月， 低头思故乡。 (Please click the image to enlarge) This poem written by Li Bai (701 – 762) who was a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period  - China's "golden age" of classical Chinese poetry (  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Bai ). It was one of the first classical poems I was taught before my primary school. Of course, I would not know the meaning at that young age. The older I get and the farther I live from home, the deeper I feel this poem, which is more often appearing in my head. Hiding my tears used to be part my character. But now, I can no longer control it behind my eyes whenever I think of it... Another Mid-Autumn Festival is coming again, which is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese

September 14, 2012 was my http://originalartstories.blogspot.com/ blog's 1st birthday, and I almost got 10,000 viewers here!! But I didn't feel well yesterday :(... Recently, I haven't posted much here, just because I was too busy building my Facebook page, which I just launched in June. I am such a lucky person, and I have already got 160 likes on my page. Now, I would love to introduce it to you, in case you haven't been there and would be interested in being a friend or just checking out my Facebook fan page. Of course your support and encouragement are the key to me developing as a visual artist:)! (Please click the image to enlarge) The portfolio picture on my fan page was the part of my first self-portrait I painted at the end of 2010, to those viewers we haven't met yet, welcome and thank you! My fan page: https://www.facebook.com/xuelingzou , and my Facebook timeline at: https://www.facebook.com/zxling1 I am happy that I have got so many fr

This title was inspired by a Beatles' song. I was introduced to many Beatles songs since I came. This is one of them inspired me, so I had decided to create a piece where this song guides me... Here is the link of The Beatles - All My Loving ( Close Your Eyes ):   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvurnpKjE4 Living in California for twelve years now. Eleven years ago, I started painting, but seldom felt desire to paint the scenery where I live. Not long ago, I made a decision that I had to make myself feel happy about living here, accept it and being accepted. Two Weeks ago, I was so stuck by this piece I was creating, I painted over and over again... it was about 11pm at Friday night, I didn't even want to eat my dinner, still searching for idea how to create this piece to express my own feeling about the half-surreal, California scene in summer. Suddenly, I received an email from a FAA member.  It was the first time she emailed and asked me if I was looking for inspir