室雅何须大 Size Doesn't Matter!

Having hung up almost a 'wallful' of carvings, which I did in the past two years, I was very pleased. I thought it looked great and really, to me, a room didn't need to be big(in size) to look elegant, cozy and warm. I wanted to tell others what I thought, I wanted to do a carving to say it, thus this plaque.

It took me a while to compose the verse - this has always been a challenge but I enjoy it! Then I started to think of the style of the characters to use, writing them out with my brush, selecting the best written characters, re-selection..., (be very patient!), ... after I was happy with all the characters I wrote, I started to design the layout.

When I was done with the carving and was going to paint the plaque, the idea of adding a little dimension to it came to me. There it went, two strips of wooden moulding were glued to be its roof.

This was the first time I tried painting my plaque with bright and striking colours. I think this makes it a special one among all my other carvings.