Chinese Brush Painting and A Surprise Visitor

The first two paintings are patterned after the teaching materials from Mrs. Fan, but the color here is more "water-down". Also, I painted them using the one-stroke technique.

And as luck would have it, I had a surprise visitor, of the avian kind, yesterday afternoon. Not exactly inside our house, but rather perched on a car top just outside our lanai. So I took shot, the photographic way, at it while it was enjoying the suntanning.





It seemed to be wooing the sky, the entire body length from the feet right up to the head oriented to a near vertical.

This is a more natural pose for its kind, eyes level, gazing pensively beyond. The tiny square pattern framing the picture is the result of shooting through the lanai wire netting for a closeup view.