Rice Painting (Tranh Gao)
Rice painting is an art form. It has its unique and simple creation made from small natural grains of rice. Rice painting combines with the talented hands of artisans who create beautiful rice paintings as portraits, architecture, landscape, etc. They play a role of bearing the image of the country, the people of Vietnam with cultural Vietnamese paintings.
Among Vietnamese paintings, rice painting is simple but very soulful. Therefore, hanging rice paintings everywhere is beautiful. These paintings also enhance the coziness of the interior space. Therefore, many foreign tourists visiting Vietnam have chosen to buy rice paintings as gifts.
How to make rice painting?
1. Roasting rice: Put on low heat, stir well. Each color will take about 30 minutes to 2 hours. The most basic colors that we can get: white, milk, yellow, brown, black.
2. Sketch drawing: Prepare a wooden plank with a thickness of about 3-5mm. A huge jar of milk glue and tweezers are to pick up the rice.
3. Arranging rice into a picture: Pour the milk glue following the main shape of the rice painting. Then, set up the rice into that available form.
4. Sticking everything by glue and handling termites: Use 502 the super glue. Paint a layer of varnish onto the painting and spray the termiticide.
5. Exposing paintings under the sun and framing when dry.