Qingdao's post-90s guy's ancestral skills make sugar painting for 50 days and earn ten thousand yuan.
source: Qingdao morning newspaper
"sugar painting stall" painting "
the day before the morning, the reporter saw the high light of sugar painting at the Spring Festival festival held in a shopping mall in Yanji road. A sugar painting of 10 yuan is very popular with the children. His stall is full of people waiting for the sugar painting and watching the bustle." Gao Guangyao, no hurry, spoke with the citizens, scooped out the sugar of the spoon out of the pot, scraped a few shaves from the bottom of the spoon, removed the sugar that was sticky to the bottom of the spoon, and then waved the spoon, and the sticky sugar, like a golden thread out of the spoon, fell on the Dali stone plate, only half a minute, the shape of a rabbit. Come out, stick the bamboo stick on it, carefully separate the sugar painting from the Dali stone plate with a wide face shovel, and then bend down to give the waiting little friend the bow and bow, and don't forget to say, "play first, eat it enough to eat it."
GAO Guangyao's stall has been waiting in front of the customer, he can draw what the customer wants, except the traditional animal pattern, including some new animation image, etc. he can deal with. "Go out shopping, see this sugar painting, feel the taste of the year, but also to buy a child, let him feel our new year's feeling as a child." A customer who queues up to buy sugar painting says that his son is cattle, and he wants a picture of a cow. Soon, Gao Guangyao made a bullfight for the customer, and the little boy was filled with joy to take the picture taken by his parents.
"post-90s" boys have ancestral skills
"this kind of sugar painting is usually done by the elderly, but I didn't think it was a young man." Many people are surprised to say that after Gao Guangyao hears, he will jump in and sell himself: "this is my ancestral home craftsmanship. My father does this too. Every year, the sugar ball club will go to participate. My paintings will be flattered. "
GAO Guangyao was born in 1992, a local Qingdao boy. He began to study art at the age of 6. He once gave up the opportunity to go to university for anime and animation. Like all anime enthusiasts, he wanted to play a place in the field of animation, but there is a certain gap between reality and ideal. "Father is a standard" street artist ", in the tourist season on the street to draw a sketch portrait, winter as our family ancestral painting, everywhere to catch up with various folk festival. Gao Guangyao said that two years ago he began to learn the sugar painting with his father. Because of his fine arts background and his father's careful guidance, he learned the handicraft in less than a year. He had a lot of creative designs than his father, for example, some cartoon and anime patterns were very popular with young people.
50 Day Spring Festival fair earn 10000 yuan
"since last year, we have been in the 50 days of the Spring Festival to do sugar painting in the mall, although hard, but rich." Gao Guangyao told reporters that to remove the stall fee and the cost of raw materials, there can be a few hundred yuan a day, the 50 days are expected to earn tens of thousands of dollars, but this is to be completed by their family. The mall opens at 10 a.m. every day, and is busy until the mall closes at 10 pm. Basically, there is no time to eat properly.
"generally I am here, my parents take turns to help collect money, and make sugar supply at home." Gao Guangyao is very satisfied with the "business" in the mall. On the one hand, it helps the mall to drive the people, and on the other hand, he makes money. Otherwise, he gets to the street to draw the portrait, the income is unstable. It is usually the busiest at noon and in the evening.
to create a three-dimensional sugar painting
do not see sugar painting easy, before the very complicated process, the first step is to boil sugar thin, this is the most critical step, the sugar thin ingredients are very simple, only sugar and honey. "The reason why we call it ancestral is that we must master the heat properly, and it may be stuck in 2 seconds or less than 2 seconds." Gao Guangyao said that the time of adding honey and the size of the fire should be paid attention to in the process of making white sugar. The prepared sugar is condensed into sugar and then put in the pot again and slowly melted with slow fire.
"sugar painting is actually a Chinese version of lollipop. The difference is that its style is arbitrary and ingenious." Gao Guangyao said that he is currently studying three-dimensional sugar painting, simply to use sugar to make sculpture, but compared with the ordinary sculpture, the sugar painting is to be completed once, not modified, this is a higher technology. He hopes to attain this height and carry forward the traditional folk culture of China.