Art

其画以设色花鸟为主，兼工带写：禽鸟工细，翎毛历历可数；牡丹以没骨法层层渲染，丰腴润泽；枝叶坡石则信笔挥写，意态疏放。此间所辑，以牡丹锦鸡为多，兼有荷塘双鹤、紫藤水禽、雪中红梅诸作，大多自题画名，亲笔落款。

Li Jumei paints birds and flowers in ink and colour, joining careful and free brushwork: birds drawn feather by feather, peonies built up in soft layered washes, leaves and rocks set down more freely. Most of the paintings here are of peonies and golden pheasants; there are also cranes in a lotus pond, waterbirds under wisteria and red plum in snow, most of them titled and signed in her own hand.