Reunion Dinner 🍜
‘REUNION DINNER’ 🍜
“On the eve of the spring festival, generations of the same family sit around the table to have a Reunion Dinner”
The Spring Festival connects everyone. On the eve of the festival, family prepared a wonderful dinner together. The secret of a great dinner is enjoying the love between family members. This is the most fulfilling time of the festival, a happy and comforting atmosphere surrounds. People enjoy delicious dishes as well as the most complete family reunion of the year.
The dinner includes cold dishes, hot dishes and desserts, but in particular, two things - fried food that is red in color or hot pot, and fish. Red is regarded as an auspicious sign, so is the boiling hot pot.
People toast to each other’s health at the reunion dinner.
CHINESE NEW YEAR DISHES
‘Reunion Dinner’ Sketching Process
Painting Process
Material & Process
Sketches: I like using 14B pencil to sketch and adhesive spray to seal the drawing and protect the drawing from fading.
Painting: I used HIMI MIYA gouache and colored pencil to add details and texture.
To complete the artwork: digital retouch and color grade.
Chinese Spring Festival - Journey Home & Celebrations.
Credit to He Beijian / Translated by Liu Yi & Zhang Xianguo for the fruitful source of information. Best to check out the book, it’s very interesting culture and I did learn a lot about their dumplings making especially.