Nghe An village through the brushstrokes of a Thanh Nam artist
(Baonghean.vn) - Stilt houses, jars of rice wine, old ladies sitting leisurely in the quiet afternoon, and fish vendors in the mountainous region of Nghe An appear vividly through the drawings of comic artist Nguyen The Linh.
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| Comic artist Nguyen The Linh draws in Hua Muong village, Hanh Dich commune - Que Phong - Nghe An. Photo: Huu Vi |
Nguyen The Linh is a Nam Dinh artist who has been working in the comic book industry in Hanoi for 15 years. Since 2013, every summer, the artist born in 1985 has traveled across Vietnam by motorbike and painted about the places he has been.
While other people often take pictures of the places they have been, Linh chooses to draw. It could be a person playing the guitar, a girl reading a book or using her smartphone in a coffee shop, or a person he accidentally met while drinking iced tea on the sidewalk.
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| Fish selling scene at a Thai village in Con Cuong district through a sketch by Nguyen The Linh. Photo: Huu Vi |
Linh said he especially likes the highland villages of Nghe An. During his 2-day stopover from August 13 to 15, 2018 in Nghe An, he visited mountainous districts such as Que Phong, Quy Chau, and Con Cuong to paint about the villages and the lives of the residents there.
Hua Muong village, Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district through the brushstrokes of artist Thanh Nam. Photo: Huu Vi
In Hua Muong village, Hanh Dich commune, Que Phong district, the cartoonist was particularly impressed with the peaceful life under the sa mu roofs of the people here. It is an ancient Thai village hundreds of years old by the Nam Viec river, preserving many cultural features such as drinking rice wine, weaving...
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| A stilt house in Hua Muong village. Photo: Huu Vi |
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| Portrait of 80-year-old Vi Thi Phuong from Hua Muong village. Photo: Huu Vi |
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| Jar of rice wine. Photo: Huu Vi |