Crayfish sounds like the word laugh in mandarin, so it symbolizes happiness and joy. Sometimes its auspiciousness also represents good fortune and long life.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/crayfish-in-river-no-cally-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.pictorem.com/660342/Crayfish%20in%20Water.html

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Chinese Bird in Autumn is painted in traditional Chinese free style Xie Yi with Chinese water color on rice paper.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/chinese-bird-in-autumn-birgit-moldenhauer.html

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Chinese mountain and water painting (in Chinese called shan shui, shan = mountain, shui=water) forms its own artistic tradition and system. Through mountain and water paintings, people can taste both artistic conception and the artistic style of Chinese paintings well.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/river-view-birgit-moldenhauer.html

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Just a little painting ☺️

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/little-plum-blossom-twig-bw-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.pictorem.com/722558/Little%20Plum%20Blossom%20Twig%20-%20no%20Cally.html

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#CherryBlossom

In China, fish and jade are homonymic words (all sound "yu"), so fish represents affluence and abundance.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/three-little-fish-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.pictorem.com/676825/Three%20Little%20Fish%20-%20no%20Cally.html

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My favorites together: plum blossom and bamboo!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/white-plum-blossom-with-bamboo-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.pictorem.com/254921/White%20Plum%20Blossom%20With%20Bamboo.html

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#CherryBlossom

Most of my bamboo paintings are in black and white. I love this very traditional Chinese art of painting with ink only.

https://pixels.com/featured/bamboo-silence-bw-no-cally-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.zazzle.com/store/moldenhauer_art

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Bamboo has been an important and meaningful subject for painting during many periods in Chinese history.

I just love to paint bamboo!

https://pixels.com/featured/bamboo-chinese-art-two-bw-no-cally-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.pictorem.com/630538/Bamboo%20Chinese%20Art%20%20-%20two%20%20-%20bw%20-%20no%20Cally.html

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Plum Blossom and Full Moon

(I saved this to disk in 2011 in a folder called “Zen" and I can't find any reference to it now. Image search has gone to hell. No attribution…)

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Landscape from today's art class.
Medium: ink and rice paper.

I'm actually happy with a lot of how this turned out. The first step was to make a template and that is placed underneath this while working on the final piece. It's a lot of fun to experiment with texture and different wash colors of ink. Next week we'll be adding color to our landscape. I'll probably make another landscape for that though as this one is already pretty busy. #Watercolor #brushpainting