2024 is the Year of the Dragon, and you need to TREAT YOURSELF! Tianlong, the spirit dragon, is the embodiment of your Zodiac sign, and wouldn't he just look so cute on your mantle?
He's perfect to add to the impressive pile of plushies that pushes your partner out of bed every night 🙌 😉
Check out the Plush Project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eyewhiskers/year-of-the-dragon-plushie-and-extras
In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
I hope we will be dragons.
Extremely belated postscript that should have been here far earlier:
I love the idea of kintsugi so here's a porcelain dragon that highlights the broken seams with gold. Despite all the pains of hardships in life, we are beautiful.
A wonderful Pokemon chinese animated short film directed by DaiWei (All Saints Street) and produced by MTJJ / HMCH studio (Legend of Hei) for Chinese New Year.
chúc mừng năm mới ! hope this lunar new year is one full of good luck and good health for everyone !!
( i wanted to have a bit of fun with patterns with this one - the designs are inspired by encaustic tiles i've seen around vietnam, with a bit of tết flavour :D )
Last year of the dragon I painted something, so I was excited I could this year too! I was inspired by a skink called Pygomeles trivittatus, the three-lined short skink. They are so cute and have really tiny legs! I love them.