January 29th, 2025 is the first day of the Chinese Lunar calendar. This year celebrates the year of the wood snake. Wood snakes are wise, elegant, and mysterious.
How are snakes portrayed in artwork?
Think of how textures, patterns, lines and forms play a role in rendering these serpent creatures?
Science helps create Art.
Interesting facts about snakes:
Snakes can hear, despite not having external ears.
The color of a snake's skin comes in many colors visible to the human eye and even into ultraviolet wavelengths that can be seen by certain insects.
Creating Art
using
Principles of Design
Movement
Pattern
The Chinese Zodiac
Discover your zodiac animal assigned to your birth year.
Chinese Characters
Understanding their structures and patterns.
Chinese Characters are the oldest continuosly used writing system in the world.
Create a red envelope.
Use Chinese Characters to decorate your home with kind words.
