The creation of freehand flower and bird paintings does not seem to be as complex as figure paintings and landscape paintings, and some even have only a few strokes, but it is not easy to paint well. The painter is thinking about how to use concise brushwork to create a form of painting of flowers and birds; how to express the vigorous vitality of nature and the vitality of animal and plant life, showing his full of feelings and lofty temperament, the work of painter Cai Maoyou presents us with a lot of enlightenment - the transformation of flower and bird painting, the modernity and epochality of flower and bird painting, including how to make the transformation of ancient forms of flower and bird painting to modern forms, which is worth affirming.
He made this work of flowers and birds, pen and ink as far as possible to dilute, blur, reduce, so that the ink rhyme under the pen, the formation of no me me, there is no me, nothing ethereal realm, the picture ink rhyme is like the fresh air after the rain and the sun, without any impurities, really light in the pen and ink, light in the spirit. In the picture, a bird is depicted standing among the stone grasses, and the bird's round eyes are flexible, accurately capturing the dynamic moments of the bird, showing a strong modeling ability, the pen and ink are suitable, and the connotation is full of deep connotation. The painter uses an anthropomorphic composition: the branches and leaves hanging from the stones in the painting look like people reaching out, and they can embrace and care for the stones and birds, all of which show a warm atmosphere.
Painter Cai Maoyou believes that in order to make the works highlight the most important and fundamental quality of freehand flower and bird painting - spirituality. What is important is that between the formal language of pen and ink and the life of natural flowers and birds, the artist has constructed the "ink thousand layers" ink flower and bird art practice, a smooth and organic association, a changeable vividness, a strong sense of form, such a kind of flower and bird painting artistic conception flowing out of the soul, adding new experience to contemporary ink flower and bird painting.