Only a few months after I started Chinese painting, my teacher announced that he would like to exhibit some of our paintings at the Japanese centre in Cambridge for ‘Japan Day 2007’.
Rather reluctantly, I provided him with some chickens… I can’t help thinking that the plants in the background really look like asparagus and that my seal (designed under pressure) was everything but Chinese.
This however triggered an interest in birds painting and several herons followed… I was quite happy with the one on the black background, especially because I started this painting on a white paper and gradually built up a black wash on the back of the paper to reach this really strong black background.
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