A Myna Perching Over the Lotus Pond

Every artist is an individual medium in his or her own right,clouding or refashioning the phenomena in the peculiar way or breaking them up then reconstructing them strikingly, as it were. This, in fact, is how the artist transform what is given into a work of art. In my art, my attemp is to concentrate on the states of vision and highlight the value of coupling a sense of tradition with innovation.

A slanted weeping willow is positioned diagonally from left to top right. Unconsciously, we always register a diagonal arrangment as an active, rising thing in paintings. Therefore the leaves of the willow swaying in the gentle wind seem all the more brish. This visual effect also come from the unstrained and delicate brushwork which is the basic request of the artist to master the traditional expressing skill with dexterity. The overall conception of the pictorial structure suggest my approach to deploy my effort to express the lush summer delights of the lotus pond.

As for the posture of the myna, I opted for a different angle to depict that was all the more striking for being unfamiliar. Without the moulding possible to light effect, the bird in the foreground is three-dimensional.  It is the advent of a new approach in my work. It is also an attempt to blend figures optically into their surroundings. The leaves and the bird painted in relatively subdued tones was executed with relaxed hand yet was also conspicuously exact in the draughtsmanship. The myna’s mottled black feathers recorded nuanced shades to emphasis it’s volumn, and at the same time it is the orchestration with the muted green colour surrounding it.

In the lower part of the picture. A lotus glints through the willow and thus has created an optical distance. By gradation of the changing sizes of the leaves and flowers in the pond, a certain sense of depth is added in the planar qualities of the picture.

Although no light source can be identified, the pond which is rendered as the backdrop is bright. It is because the outlines of the leaves is drawn delicately while they are adumbratively coloured with watery green to achieve the brilliant effect.

The painting combined a number of technical strategies which is an idiosyncratically tentative approach, comparing Nature with the organic pictorial image and trying to bring the two into line.