Category: Colorful Cranes & Bird Landscape Paintings & Wall Scrolls
Birch Forest Winter Cranes - Small Wall Scroll
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| 123.2cm 48½" | |||||
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45.5cm 18" |
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Approximate Measurements
Painting: 27.1cm x 68.1cm ≈ 10¾" x 26¾"
Silk Scroll: 36.5cm x 123.2cm ≈ 14¼" x 48½"
Width at Wooden Knobs: 45.5cm ≈ 18"
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Birch Forest
This is the roughly translated title of this piece
Close up view of the crane artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
Title Information | ||
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
 | bái | White |
 | huà | Birch |
 | lín | Small Forest |
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Together, "white birch" refers to the most | ||
This beautiful wall scroll shows cranes flying through a birch forest in winter.
According to the artists, the cranes represent long life and good luck forever.
This is painted on special xuan paper (rice paper) with then mounted to a hand-made silk scroll.
Larger scrolls from the Xiao Meng collection are available by special order. Let me know if you are interested.
Chen Wei-Ling puts the finishing touch signature
on the beautiful Asian Artwork that
she and her husband created for me.
This hand-painted artwork is from the
Xiao Meng Asian Art Collection
The artists of this collection are actually a married couple who travel around China together looking for subjects to paint. Their real names are Chen Yong Ping and Chen Wei Ling but they sign all of their work under the single pen name Xiao Meng.
They work as a team on most of these paintings. One of them does the background and the other will handle the detail work on each painting.
The artists take great pride in the fact that they have developed their own unique painting style which they call "hazy painting" (this is roughly translated - it sounds better in Chinese).
They use a combination of "freehand style" and "elaborate style" in their paintings. The background is done using broad fast strokes and spray with very thin paint. The foreground (cranes) are done with a lot of detail using a delicate technique with a very fine brush.
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This is not a Print!
This artwork is 100% hand-painted.
This item was listed or modified
Feb 6th, 2012
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Gary's random little things about China:
The Bare Bones:
In the USA and most western countries, when people eat chicken, generally the breast meat and other white meat is preferred over dark meat.
However, in China, it is exactly the opposite.
In fact, check a supermarket in China and you'll find that chicken breasts are the cheapest cuts, while other cuts containing dark meat and bone get top dollar.
You will also find that traditional Chinese people wanting the freshest possible food will buy their chicken alive, and butcher it just before cooking a tasty meal.
And don't be put off by the bones in the chicken that you are served - all the bones, and even the head are usually served together and are seen in Chinese culture as a sign of quality and good taste.
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