Zhou Chunya is considered to be one of the excellent Chinese contemporary painters who have the best command of colors. His artworks feature the usage of colors in contradiction to nature. Early in the 1990s, Zhou Chunya painted such themes as flowers, mountains, and rocks in the painting style and with the skills of German New Expressionism, using colors boldly to add extraordinary splendor to his paintings. Thick and flamboyant red colors give new interpretations to mountains, rocks and flowers, which show a completely different outlook and color compared to those in nature and are arranged in large blank areas with simplified brushstrokes. The abstract and independent images are covered by an accumulation of thick layers of paint, implying their ambiguous nature and explaining the painter's characteristics such as gentleness, introversion, and laziness.

In his "Red Stone" series, Zhou Chunya applies rose and black to serve as a foil, and thick and superb red in contrast to the porcelain white. The attractive stones resemble trance-like meatballs, and warm and serene blood clots. The piling, rendering, painting and mixing of paints strengthen the impact of the colors, and have formed an abstract and eye-catching design of images. The overall paintings, from the colors to the composition, provide a feeling of ghost-like freedom and easiness.