First Arrival Journal
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- 120 pages
- Cover 350gsm, paper stock 90gsm
- Front cover print from an independent designer
- Available in a selection of ruled or graph pages
- Handy document pocket inside the back cover
- Since every item is made just for you by your local third-party fulfiller, there may be slight variances in the product received
First Arrival
First Arirval is an iris painting in traditional Chinese free style technique (Xie Yi) with Chinese watercolor on rice paper.
Orchids are collectively known in Chinese as lan (兰) or lanhua (兰花). They are highly valued for their delicate fragrance and always associated with elegance.
The orchid used to represent good taste and beauty in Chinese traditional culture. They symbolize elegance, nobility and self-respect. They also belong to the "Four Gentlemen of Chinese Painting" - the plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum and represent one of the four seasons!
In Feng Shui Orchids are commonly used as an alternative symbol for the lotus to represent the season summer. Chinese Orchid Paintings are specially associated with women, love, and beauty; and secondly, with virtue, moral excellence. When orchids are depicted flowering together with the sweet osmanthus, which represents the hope of descendants would be thriving and dignitary.
The XieYi technique, also called "Free Style", is painted fresh from the hand and the design of the image is subject to few restrictions.
Xie means to write and Yi the meaning. A famous Master of Chinese painting, said that XieYi indicated the fact of drawing the spirit of the beings. Painting Xie Yi uses many techniques of calligraphy which privilege the spontaneity of the line. Free style paintings are thus very quickly carried out. The image is not really painted but rather written.
In China the calligraphy always belongs to the painting. It’s like the signature from the artist. The bigger characters are always the title of the painting. The smaller calligraphy shows the name of the artist and sometimes where and when the painting was created.
On the picture is written "di lian hua - bai jie hua yu shang hai” what means “Butterflies longing for flowers - painted by Bai Jie in Shanghai”
Bai Jie is my Chinese name.
You can also buy it without the calligraphy! Check out my gallery.
The original is mounted in traditional style as silk scroll and framed with white silk!
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