The Auspicious Sign

Two yellow birds with orange-tipped beaks perch together among the gnarled, twisting brown branches of a flowering tree, its blossoms rendered in loose washes of pink, magenta, and pale blue-grey with touches of green foliage. Columns of black calligraphy and red seal stamps run down the right edge and lower left corner of the composition. "The Auspicious Sign," a Chinese brush painting by Yeh Lan, 2013.