Flower and Bird Chinese Scroll Painting – Silk Wall Art – Lotus Colorful

The silk of this Chinese flower and bird painting carries lotus, handled throughout with layered ink washes. Anyone new to Chinese botanical wall art could start here — the subject explains itself. Tonal gradation does the heavy lifting, moving the eye from foreground to distance.

Chinese viewers would read the scene at a glance: the lotus, Buddhism's emblem of purity rising from mud, and the setting is painted with a wanderer's fondness for quiet places. What holds it together is layered ink washes and a palette of quiet, harmonious hues. A scroll on the wall changes the rhythm of a room in a way framed prints rarely do. The painter's layered ink washes shows especially well in lotus. The layered ink washes keeps lotus crisp while letting the quiet, harmonious hues wash softly behind it.

Somewhere with soft, indirect light shows the silk to its best advantage. It carries good wishes in its subject matter, which makes the giving easy.