I'm so happy to announce that my DIY koi lanterns are available now on YuumeiArt.com/shop
Build your very glowing koi and bring magic to your home. Choose from 8 metallic colors and 2 fin types, pair with RGB LEDs for an infinite display of colors :)
The unique design allows the koi to be posable, you can bend the fish in any direction and make it swim like a real fish.
Hang your koi anywhere
Or have a beautiful tabletop display
Decorate your koi with metallic markers to customize it to your imagination
Taipei is not hosting the big national lantern festival this year but there are still some cool things set up around the city, this one is outside Songshan Station 松山站
Maxfield Parrish :: The Lantern Bearers, 1908; oil on canvas. | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
American illustrator Maxfield Parrish originally created this painting to be reproduced in Collier’s magazine. The Lantern Bearers captures the sense of imagination, theatrical appeal, and luminous paint that made Parrish’s work so popular. He applied layers of pure pigment and varnish to create a brilliant depth of color. Figures dressed as clowns hang gold-hued lanterns, which glow against the blue night sky. While the six lanterns being handled by the clowns appear clearly, the nature of the four spheres in the distance is more ambiguous. Perhaps one of them is the moon...