Acrylic on canvas · painted by hand
Betta in
lantern light
Two fighting fish turning slowly through a red that isn't just red — it's the red of doorways and envelopes and New Year, with paper lanterns floating loose in the dark behind them.
Drawn and created by ArtistryDreamz — Megumi Tsai 2026
斗魚 · 燈籠 · 硃紅 · 壓克力
The painting, whole Acrylic on canvas
The red is Chinese red. The yellow ones are lanterns.
The background
Chinese red acrylic, laid down before anything was drawn. Everything else had to learn to live inside it.
The lanterns
Faceted yellow light, drifting at different depths, the way lanterns hang at different heights over a street.
The betta
Blue scales overhead, a smaller one turning below. Fins loose as silk, doing what fins do in still water.