source: Qilu Evening News
due to the disability of the right arm, eight ten day old man Xue Shiwu painted with his left hand.
newspaper reporter Mu Jing in March 2nd news (reporter Mu Jing Intern Zhang Lu) 84 year old Xue Shiwu old right arm disability, after retiring every day to stick to the left hand painting. In 2011, when Xue Shiwu lived in an apartment for the elderly, he turned his room into a studio for painting. Nowadays, the old people are very famous in the apartment for the elderly. Many people go to seek the painting. The old apartment promises to do some personal exhibitions for the elderly.
Xue Shiwu is living in Shuxin harbor care center of Dou Gou Street office in central district. 1, the reporter saw Xue Shiwu, the old man's right arm disability, is holding the brush with his left hand, head down to seriously paint.
reporters see that unlike other old people's rooms, Xue Shiwu's room is more like a painting studio. The table was covered with brush, paint and other painting tools. On the wall hung Xue Shiwu's new paintings, mainly landscapes and landscapes.
"I like painting ink and wash paintings very much. I can draw a few strokes whenever I have time." Xue Shiwu said that after moving to the nursing home in 2011, all the paints, brushes and inkstones were all moved, with more than a dozen brushes, more than ten boxes of pigment and full of more than ten square meters of room.
Xue Shiwu told reporters that he had worked as an electrician in a factory before he retired. He accidentally hurt his right hand when he was 45 years old and his right hand was cut off. Xue Shiwu, who used to use his right hand, was very uncomfortable at first. After his retirement, Xue Shiwu studied traditional Chinese painting at Ji'nan University for the aged, and studied for 4 years. Because Xue Shiwu was not used to using his left hand, he began to learn slower than others. But by practicing more, the old man also drew a good picture with his left hand.
at present, Xue Shiwu's paintings are very famous in the apartment for the elderly. Many old people and their families are looking for Xue Lao to paint. There are also several paintings in his apartment hall. Xue Lao told reporters that several paintings hanging on the walls of his room had been reserved.
a notice was posted in Xue Shiwu's room, suggesting that the painter should pay the old man a minimum of 50 yuan. Gong Chengkun, manager of the apartment for the elderly, told reporters that this is the old age apartment for the elderly. "It is not easy for an old man to insist on painting when he is so old. He suggests that the artist pay a certain amount of remuneration, which is a kind of respect and encouragement for the achievements of the elderly." "I have promised with Xue Lao that when he draws too much, we will show him a personal exhibition in the nursing home." Gong Chengkun told reporters, Xue Lao's body is not good, there are cholecystitis, have also done 3 operations, eat a lot of medicine every day, but his mental state is very good, painting to the elderly life is very substantial, in order to encourage the old people to stick to the hobby, the nursing home is going to give the elderly personal painting exhibition.