Birds and Plum Blossom Painting

Birds and Plum Blossom Painting

The title, "Bao Chun Tu", means, "Announcing [the Coming] Spring Painting".

This painting features birds on a plum tree branch. The plum blossoms represent early spring and the beauty of a woman in Chinese culture.

This was painted on special watermark pattern paper. It gives the painting a very special look in the background - I like this pattern instead of plain white space in a painting of this style.

About the artist:

The artist's name is (Wang ShuoSheng). He's from near Jinan city, the capital of Shandong Province. He's a friend and associate of the now-retired Qin Xia (a famous bird and flower artist that we used to represent before her retirement).

About the painting:

This is a "Gong Bi" or "Fine Brush" painting which features very fine and detailed brush strokes. With this style, every fiber from every wing of a bird and every vein in every flower petal is painted in. It takes many hours for the artist to complete this kind of painting.

This painting was created on xuan paper (rice paper) which has been mounted to a silk matting/border. The artist used special Chinese black ink and watercolor.