Your girlfriend is the best. Even I fall in love with her, hahah. Enjoy.

This is such an interesting and eye opening perspective. Thank you for enlightening.

saphirephoenix23 I see it the exact same way u do. That’s so weird to me.

I could not tell.

yanghaiying Thank You for such a detailed explanation of this painting and the artist-it has absolutely captivated me! Every time I watch this I see something else in the painting I didn’t see before. It reminds me of a painting I fell in love with in one of the galleries on The Pier in San Francisco. My ex tried to get the artist down on the price for several weeks because I was so taken with his work-but the lowest he would agree to was $50K. Although we were comfortable at the time and my ex even offered to take out a loan to get it-I felt it was just too much for that time in our lives. I kept up with the artist for quite a few years and noticed he was offering “Prints” of many of his works. I was so excited to find the painting I had become so attached to and immediately ordered the very reasonable print...disappointment. 😟. As I’m sure, as an artist yourself, you know that a print just doesn’t contain the light and the life that the original does. The original appeared to have its own light emitting from it and the trees and flowers seemed to almost move separate from the rest of the painting-the print had none of that and when I showed it to friends, trying to explain the emotions and feeling that the original contained; their unanimous view was that they just “couldn’t see it” and they weren’t impressed at all. My son called me an “art snob” not long ago after I declined his offer to purchase me a replacement Sunflower painting that I had lost in the fire last year. I had lost an original, not very expensive but beautiful hand-done copy of one of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. It was by a local artist who had added her own twist to it and while she isn’t a “professional”-her painting contained that same life and emotion you can only get from an original. I used to collect Sunflower items because I felt they represented Hope; and her painting portrayed that. I just didn’t think the reproduction print that my Son wanted to get me emitted anything except “oh yea, another picture of a Van Gogh painting...”. I guess I AM becoming an “art snob” in my later years... 😂

yanghaiying I was just watching some of Henri Li’s videos before starting a painting session this morning. I hadn’t seen this one, but when I watched it and saw how he did the subtle color with the ink-I immediately thought of THIS painting! I wonder if he painted the green on the BACK after finishing the trees in ink? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ep98p7iat9e3f58.html Also, I may email you a picture-a screenshot of an antique, (18th century) Chinese painting that also captured my attention on Pinterest the other day. Unfortunately, other than the age and saying it was a Chinese winter landscape; it gave no other artist information. What surprised me about it was the obvious TEXTURE. This was the first time I had seen any additional texture on a Chinese brush painting-it looked like snow! (Or more exactly, it looked like the fake spray-on snow some people use to decorate during the holidays. Obviously it wasn’t THAT substance! 😂. ). Any idea what they would use for texture?

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