Homeward Bound in the Spring

This is the roughly translated title of this piece.

Close up view of the crane artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll

Photography assistant Yang Chen
holds a similar-sized wall scroll to give
you an idea of how big this one is.

Title Information
Character	Pinyin	Meaning
	chun	Spring
	gui	Homeward Bound
	tu	Painting or Picture

This is a larger size wall scroll than we normally get from Xiao Meng.

This wall scroll depicts cranes as they emerge from the green forest and make their way across the sky in the Spring.

According to the artists, the cranes represent long life and good luck forever.

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.