Two Dragons Playing in the Water
The Chinese Title is "Er Long Xi Shui".
To break down the artist's title:
Er = Two
Long = Dragons
Xi = Play with / Revel
Shui = Water
About the Artist:
This artist's name is Li Yu-Jun from near Jinan City in the Shandong Province
of Northern China. She was born in 1963 and started painting at an early
age. Taking inspiration from famous artists of China in the beginning, she
honed her skills and developed her own style over the years.
While she has dabbled in many subjects, her specialties are dragons as well
as birds & flowers.
It was only by chance that I found her. I was seeking some new styles
of dragons finding out just how hard it is to find good dragon artists. I
happened to mention my dragon art frustrations to the manager of the gallery in
Jinan that handles Yin Yi-Qiu's artwork (my favorite tiger artist). She
immediately knew the perfect artist for what I was seeking. We arranged
all the details for what I was looking for, and a month later several wonderful
paintings were ready for mounting.
About the artwork:
This dragon painting was done on high-quality xuan paper (often called rice
paper). To get the deep and vibrant colors that you see, the artist had to
paint in multiple layers (only the best xuan paper can be used for this
technique - otherwise the colors would become muddy).
It takes a long time to complete one of these paintings with all of the
painstaking detail.
When finished, and delivered to our studio in Beijing, it was mounted by hand
to the silk scroll that you see above.
