{Fisherman's Song} 漁家樂 漁人一字一字 織成一張張電子網， 趁滿天繁星閃爍， 向汪洋大海撒去！ 等上弦月將天狼射落， 太陽神由海平線衝起， 忽然！知心語 一尾， 一尾， 乘著 電光 與風， 飛傳 游回。 頓時， 海上彩霞飛舞， 一片金輝燦爛！

Calligraphy versions of 21 "Dragons".

A landscape painting got by "happy accident", with calligraphy caption saying "When you look at it, it is mountain; when you look at it, it is water." And then, "When you look at it, it is not mountain; when you look at it, it is not water."

A Beijing dog drawn and given to my granddaughter.

Rachel, my granddaughter, drawn when she was ten.

Rachel, my granddaughter, drawn when she was five years old.

This is master Jing's painting of Mt. Lu. How magnificent it is!

This is my emulation of Mt. Lu done by Jing Hao of late Tang Dynasty, a great master of landscape. I finished only three-fourths of it, leaving some space for my calligraphy narrative about the painter and his time.... If you want to know how I did it, you can roll down a little bit in this blog and there I showed several stages of my painting process for your reference and comment.

This is my imaginary view of Mt Lu, also called Nan-Shan by the famous poet Tao Yuan-Min of Jing Dyansty....

kindness and love; sympathy.

My first commissioned Chinese calligraphy work for Chris at the request of his Mom. In the well-framed work held in Chris' arms, it reads, "A son who cares is the treasure to the world, from Mom."

An ancient Chinese character for "rain prayer" From the beginning of May until the end of June 2012, not a drop of rain was witnessed in and around Bloomington, Indiana. We were desperate for rain. Just at this moment I happened to have found this ancient Chinese character on June 31 and miraculously right in the wee hours of July 1, we had a big thunder storm, which, of course, brought along lots of rain to our great happiness. From there on, though temperature has been still high, we have had some rain in July....

This is Love in the traditional form. The simplified LOVE drops "Heart" in the middle part of the construction. Can one think of loving without HEART?

Surpass! Not only others, but yourself most important of all.

Dragon written in Clerical Script, surrounded by plum branches and red and white blossoms.

Dragon written in Stardard Script.

Three Dragons: one is the combination of Kingship plus a Dragon tail; another, in standard script; the third, an ancient pictorial representation of a kute little dragon. Hope you like them.

Dragon Lantern 1

2012 happens to be the Year of Dragon. So I drew 16 different versions of dragon, 2 on each of the 8 sides. I had to take four different photos from different angles, trying to cover all the versions of the dragon--some ancient, some cursive, some clerical, and some.... Hope you enjoy them.

Dragon Lantern 2

The two versions of dragon shown on the very frontal side happen to be: Dragon in standard script (top) and Dragon in cursive script (bottom), giving a sharp contrast between the two.

Dragon Lantern 3

Again, I am trying to show the sharp contrast between two very different styles: this time, wild cursive script (top) and ancient form (bottom).

Dragon Lantern 4

Now, perhaps you can see the relationship between the top and the bottom versions of dragon in terms of the speed of the brush that moves patiently from fifteen to one (or two) strokes.