This is  My Chinese Painting 1546 -1549 as well my  Chinese  Xieyi  Painting 916-919 and 664th and 667th   Flower & Bird Painting. 

This is a big painting which is composed of 4 individual paintings.

I created its structure in July 2015 in Beijing. However, after only sketching the 23 birds on it, I had to leave for the US because it is a large painting (each individual painting measures 97cm x 180cm and the total size is 388cm x 180cm, which is equivalent to 152.75 inches x 70.86 inches), and I couldn't find a spacious enough place or have sufficient time as I needed to study Chinese Mountain and Water Paintings (Landscape) and its theory for my Master's Degree in Fine Arts from 2016-2021. Therefore, the draft remained in my luggage for seven years and traveled between the US and China several times, resulting in some worn areas on the paper with traces of water due to a typhoon... It has become a long-standing concern of mine.

1. Anyway, I didn't have the habit of leaving work unfinished, so even though it was delayed, I still managed to find some time to complete it in the hot summer.

Although I couldn't attach all 4 pieces of the painting on my 3.5-meter by 2-meter painting wall (the painting is 3.88 meters by 1.8 meters) at once, resulting in a lack of harmony in the background color and some areas not being ideal, I was very glad and felt much relieved that I finally completed it.

I truly hope my efforts will bring you a big smile.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to write to shirley@ebridge.cn. :-)

Shirley Yiping Zhang
August 13, 2022