The 33-year-old Huang Yao is an original 3D painter from Wujia Village, Huangsha Town, Yizhang County. He usually selects a towering tree near the country road and wraps part of the tree with paper to create a painting. With nature as the background, he draws exquisite lines and then colors it layer by layer. After a while, a mediocre tree then looks mysterious and attracts hordes of onlookers.

 

On the premise of not destroying the trees, he aims to make them become extraordinary by  painting on them. In addition, he boasts another skill that can make the telegraph poles “suspend” in the air.

 

 

In one of Huang Yao’s paintings, a part of the telephone pole is “hollowed out” to integrate with the rape flower field behind it, and several cement blocks still hang on the steel bars where the pole breaks.

 

At first glance, it seems that the telegraph pole is cut off and suspends in the air, making people stop and watch it. The painter breathing the crisp air in the vast field, a dog and a telegraph pole compose a harmonious picture. 

 

 

From March 2020 to September 10, 2022, Huang Yao has posted his works online successively, including 30 “invisible” trees and “suspended” telegraph poles that have attracted hundreds of thousands of netizens. The number of likes below a single piece of his works reached 2.9 million.

 

“I like drawing since my childhood, and began to study painting at 16 at senior high school. This laid a foundation for my painting.” Huang Yao majored in science and engineering in college, but he restarted to paint after graduation.

 

From then on, he hardly served as an office worker but devoted himself to painting. Thanks to the support of his family, now he becomes a professional 3D painter.

 

 

At the beginning of 2020, Huang Yao stayed in his hometown due to the epidemic. He tried to break through the old-fashioned ideas and found a new creative direction.

 

Huang Yao said his paintings became increasingly informative from the pure “perspective” pictures at first to works with more elements like lollipops, Calabash Brothers and ladybugs, and he hoped his works could influence more people. In the future creation, he will add more Chinese elements and positive energy into his works.