What does Grandma Hua tell us?

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Alice. She decided to realize three things she promised her grandfather when she was a child. So she began to travel everywhere, climbed high snow-capped mountains, walked through deserts and tropical rainforests, and made many unforgettable friends. Because of her back injury, she stopped to do the second thing and found a house by the sea. When she found a large area of blue, purple and pink Lu blooming on the hillside, she decided to finish the third thing she promised her grandfather, so she bought many seeds of Lu and scattered them on roads and country roads, schools and churches, and everywhere she passed. By the next spring, all the places where she sowed were full of beautiful flowers. She finally fulfilled her promise and completed three things she promised her grandfather.

After reading this story, I was very moved. Alice is a trustworthy and caring person. I will learn from her in the future. If I promise something to others, I must stick to my promise and keep my word. We should also take good care of flowers and trees, and don't litter, which will make our home more beautiful.

Barbara Braque once said, "Grandma Hua is perhaps the work closest to my heart. Of course, Hua and I also have many differences. However, when I wrote this book, Hua Yuyan gradually became another me, or at the beginning, but I didn't realize it. " Indeed, Barbara Braque likes traveling as much as Grandma Hua. More importantly, they are all people who strive to make the world a better place, but Grandma Hua chose to plant flowers and create picture books.

Barbara Bob began to create picture books from 1940 until her death in 2000. During her 60-year career, she has tried many different painting techniques and materials. The cooperative printing methods range from early black-and-white monochrome printing to manual color printing and four-color photographic plate making, and then to modern scanning and electronic color separation technology. Since the popularization of four-color printing, Cooney has mainly used transparent watercolors and opaque colors, acrylic pigments, colored pencils and pastels. After that, she began to paint on cotton cloth, linen cloth and silk. The original work of "Flower Mother" is to mount fine cotton cloth on the drawing card, then render it with gypsum and paint it with acrylic pigment, and finally decorate the details with colored pencils. This way of painting makes each painting have delicate texture and warm and soft colors, and Cooney's unique and beautiful lines touch the readers' heartstrings.

Besides painting, Cooney also likes gardening and photography, which has a far-reaching influence on her. She once said: "From the age of 40, the spirit and feelings of a place have become very important to me. When I started traveling and took pictures in various places, I found the change of light quality, so I was gradually able to draw the atmosphere of a place. " Because of the subtle light differences, Cooney's paintings exude a wonderful sense of reality, which makes readers feel as if they are experiencing the local air and enjoying the atmosphere. In Mother Flower, Cooney described the amorous feelings of tropical islands, desert areas and coastal towns, and mastered the different light and colors of each place. In addition, she also makes readers feel the changes of four seasons, such as foggy spring, bright summer, autumn covered with hay and snowy winter.

In addition to the quality of light, Cooney is also very concerned about the scenes, buildings, clothes and hairstyles of the characters in the painting. She tends to explore deeply and pay attention to the accuracy of details. So in this book, along with Alice's growth, Miss Lu's journey and Grandma Hua's later life, we saw red brick houses by the harbor, thatched houses on Nanyang Island, mud brick houses in the desert, cabins by the sea … and clothes from different times and regions.

Cooney obviously wanted the reader to stop between pages, so he arranged one full-page picture after another; Some diagrams have also crossed the limit of single page and expanded into cross-page diagrams. These pictures are attracting readers to taste the scenery around the world and swim around the world in painting. The horizontal version is also suitable for presenting landscapes and matching travel-related themes. Hua's favorite beautiful seascape runs through the pages, and the paintings hanging on the wall also have seascape over and over again. There are two pictures in the picture where Grandma Hua tells stories to the children. It's the painting in which Alice listened to grandpa's story at first. Will one of them appear anywhere else? Barbara Braque seems to love the sea as much as Grandma Hua.