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This gallery is composed of a couple of my paintings done in 2020, collectively inspired by my roots as a Chinese-American girl. Lots of the paintings have deeper aspects behind them and lots of symbolism and meaning.

My grandpa is one of my biggest inspirations as well and I dedicate lots of these pieces to him. He passed away earlier this year but I work every day to make him proud.

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I am a 16 year old artist and I am for the most part self-taught. I took art classes for about 2 years and learned the basics, but for the past 5 years I have been learning on my own.

I enjoy painting animals and I like to pack in a lot of symbolism with my art so there are truly layers to what you see. I hope you enjoy yourself!

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this painting is of a koi pond. There are colorful lilypads and leaves dancing with the koi in the water.

this painting is one I very much like because it is calming. When I was painting this, I was overwhelmed with midterms and I just put those aside for an hour while I painted this.

So I want you, as I did, to leave your problems and worries with the koi and stay a while and enjoy yourself.

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This is my last name in Chinese, and also means horse. I painted this with a traditional brush style, different from my other paintings.

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This is a painting of a rabbit in the clouds, looking down and into the distance.

What inspired this painting was my grandpa, the day before he passed away, we visited him because he wasn't feeling good. I sat with him for a while at the table and we drew together. His hands were very shaky, but he drew rabbits and cut them out.
This was the last thing he drew, and I wanted to paint a rabbit which represents him, looking down on me from the clouds.

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this is a painting of my grandparents, in China. I recreated this photo in a painting and gifted it to my dad this year for his birthday.

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this is a painting of a Chinese girl, under the moon. There is also a phoenix in the background flying in the sky.

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This is a tiger that I painted for my grandpa, he had told me it was his favorite animal so I made him a painting of it.

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though my grandpa is no longer here to paint with me and see how far i have come and how far I'm going, I know that he is with me.

Every time I see a sunset, I know he is painting the skies to tell me that he is still here.