She introduces mineral color painting to the world

一群身着汉服的女子

两只嬉戏遨游的巨鲲

隐藏在少女头饰里的飞天

挑衅大猫的小青龙

A group of ladies dressed in Hanfu,

Two gigantic kuns excursing under water，

Flying apsaras hidden in maidens' headdresses，

lovely dragons teasing a big cat.

耗时近三个月，一幅用岩彩技法创作，总长2米，高1米的当代国风仕女群像走红网络！这幅绝美的《会向瑶台月下逢》的作者，是岩彩画青年艺术家莲羊。

A mineral color painting with a total length of 2 meters and a height of 1 meter went popular on internet. It was created by Lian Yang, a famous female artist.

人物档案

莲羊，本名吴洋，出生于四川达州，岩彩画青年艺术家。曾先后求学于四川美术学院附中、中央美术学院与日本多摩美术大学，大量岩彩作品被海内外机构收藏。

Wu Yang, a female artist born in Sichuan who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Tama Art University, is introducing a relatively unknown form-mineral color painting.

一幅具有东方神秘和韵味的女财神画，真正让吴洋走进了岩彩的世界。2015年前，国内关于岩彩的资料极少，且大部分都停留在讨论岩彩是什么的层面上，而彼时的海外已经形成一个成熟的画派、画种。于是，她放弃了当时已有的成就，独自一人奔赴日本东京多摩艺术大学攻读硕士课程。

A painting with oriental mystery brought her into the world of mineral color painting.

There was very little resources about mineral color painting before 2015, and most of those are remained at the basic definition, while this kind of painting has become a genre of art overseas. To learn the technique and get to know the art more deeply, Wu left Beijing and took a master's course at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

莲羊一直保持着将被遗忘的中国艺术带回家的愿望，也希望将中华传统文化，通过绘画传达给年轻的一代，让年轻人爱上、传承这些中国的文化传统。

She learned about pigments, the modernization of mineral color painting and paper restoration, and never lost the desire to bring the forgotten art of China back home.

岩彩一种用矿石为颜料来创作的艺术

青金石、蓝铜矿、孔雀石、绿松石……

将这些天然矿石研磨、层层叠加

厚薄对比的节奏感产生熠熠闪光的折射效果

The mineral color paintings,with minerals as pigments,

achieve exquisite effects in arts.

“岩彩在这个时代能做什么？”

这是莲羊一直都在思考的问题

"What is the meaning of mineral color painting?",

the question has always been on her mind.

“它可能需要与音乐、游戏、电影等等很多其他产业来配合‘破圈’，但最要紧的是，我们首先要让更多人知道岩彩是什么。”

"It may raise heated discussion through music, games, or movies, but the most important thing is that we must let more people know what mineral color painting is."

从2016年开始，莲羊就将自己学习和创作矿物艺术的过程发布到B站等社交媒体平台，截至目前已经发布了74条视频。其中一段“当岩彩遇上汉服”的视频，在b站上获得了700多万次浏览量，并在所有在线社交媒体平台上收获了2000多万次浏览量。

One of Wu's videos received over 7 million views on Bilibili, a video-sharing platform in China, and gathered more than 20 million views across all online social media platforms.

莲羊用岩彩为知名国产游戏创作了敦煌壁画效果的杨贵妃和女娲。

She created a mineral color painting with a picture of Yang Guifei and Nyuwa.

“近几年，文化自信的浪潮和民族潮流鼓舞了中国传统文化的继承和创新，我真的很期待看到矿物彩画能通过这股浪潮惠及到更多的人。”她补充说，她希望自己在潮流和时代的指引下不断前进。

"In recent years especially, the wave of cultural confidence and the national trend is encouraging the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese culture. I really look forward to seeing mineral color painting reach more people by riding that wave," she says, adding that she hopes she's always moving forward, directed by the trends and the times.