Eggshells make a lot of money? Artistic beauty made her fortune by carving eggshells
Born in 1983, liu li is what people call a literary and artistic young woman. She loves literature and art since childhood and likes sanmao. She occasionally publishes her own articles in the press.
By accident, she saw an old man online when she was 17. She is carefully holding an eggshell, on the eggshell carving, egg-carving art. The old man was so engrossed that, after a short while, a beautiful pattern appeared on the eggshell under the sharp carving knife. Liu li was also shocked by the spectacle and decided to approach the art.
The old man, she learned, was the famous egg-carving master, grom. This old man is known to everyone in Europe, and the art of egg carving has a broad market in European and American countries. Because eggs have a sense of renewal, people like to give each other such exquisite handicrafts on the eve of Easter, which can express good wishes.
But this kind of handicraft in Europe scenery infinite, in the domestic however is a blank. For liu li, this is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that there are fewer employees, the bar is lower, and the bad thing is that they can't find teachers to teach themselves. If you can't find a teacher, be your own teacher. Every day after school, liu secretly took out a few eggs from the refrigerator to study in his room. Liu li didn't even know how to extract the contents of the shell to get a whole egg.
She looked up a lot of information on the Internet and gradually developed her own method. When she got her eggshells fit for carving, she began to delve into the art of carving. Because of the particularity of the eggshell material, carving must be engrossed, or all previous efforts will be wasted. It's hard to overstate it by treading on thin ice.
She is the first, second, work is not careful in the process of carved after the completion of the paste, destroy, and finally his third piece the Mona Lisa smile, under the meticulous care of liu li successfully completed, liu li excitedly to his works posted online, netizens have admire liu li ingenuity, more fortunately, liu li works drew the attention of domestic egg decorating master PuDeRong. Liu li's works showed her talent. Pu felt that liu li would be a good seedling for egg carving, so he decided to accept her as a disciple.
Two years later, liu li was admitted to the fine arts department of northwest nationalities university with excellent results and continued her carving career. To ease the burden on her family, liu set up an online shop selling her egg carving, which turned out to be worth up to 18,000 yuan a month. This made liu li work harder to perfect her own technology, and finally, after three years, she carved a masterpiece. Her work, "phoenix seeks her mate," was successfully exhibited by a wealthy Hong Kong businessman for 26,000 yuan. Gradually, liu li attracted the attention of foreign art exhibitors. Her works were not limited to domestic exhibitions, but began to go to the world.
Her clients include wealthy businessmen from all over the world, as well as foreign celebrities such as the Italian President and the prince of Denmark. Liu now earns more than 1 million yuan a year, according to employees at her studio. A small egg shell, someone else may throw it into the trash can, but liu li let it bloom a different kind of light.