Painter Cai Maoyou paints plums, rigorously commenting on writing plums, and his plum blossoms focus on intuition and inspiration, pursuing one-stroke brushwork, natural aura and natural fun. His "In the Ice and Snow Forest" line has the power of steel and iron bones, the color of the dot plum is simple, and the painting is inscribed with the poem "In the ice and snow forest, different peach and plum mixed with fang dust". In order to make the poetry blend with the painting, the plum blossom is used to express the painter's desire for the return of spring. The polyangular tangled interspersed structure of the painting is tempered by subtle rubbing and dry brushwork, which fully demonstrates the painter's sharp calligraphy skills and self-expression of advocating nature. Its flowers are extremely lush, the old dry and vigorous, the new branches are strong and straight, showing the vigor of plum blossoms and having a strong atmosphere of the times.
"Luofu Mountain Under the Plum Blossom Village", the left front part of the plum is quickly outlined with dry pen heavy ink, supplemented by the scorched ink rubbing moss, dry and wet thick and light just right, and then with cursive calligraphy brush strokes to outline the plum branch, strong and powerful; the right back part of the plum branch is written with wet pen light ink on rice paper, using the paper to absorb water, ink and the speed of the brush, so that the wet pen in the wet background caused a certain ambiguity, focusing on the front branch, and pulling open the front space relationship of the picture, just like the plum shadow, interesting The hook line shapes the plum blossoms with different postures, and the dots and strokes are clear, making the picture tight and intriguing.
In the work "Spring Colors Full of Garden", the painter laid out with full compositions and noticed the brushwork. The whole work shows a strong calligraphy, appearing vigorous and majestic, strange and dangerous, which is his breakthrough in the traditional aesthetic of introverted beauty. The upper right part is then rendered in light colors to show a far-reaching background, and then embellished with two birds strolling through it, creating a quiet and idyllic atmosphere of spring colors full of plum blossoms, which also fully reflects the painter's absorption of visual experience in the traditional sense and the image of exploration and innovation.