有一次，帶領一群學生去新竹芎林鄉飛鳳山那兒寫生。還未進入目的地，半路上就被滿山滿谷的橘子園吸引住了。路旁有一張木牌寫著：「開放試吃，出園稱斤兩。」都四十五十歲的太太小姐了，看到那告示牌，毫不猶豫，丟下畫紙畫具，衝進橘子園裡，沒在一片果海裡。這幅「橘紅」是以工筆方式來畫就的，葉子的正、反、昂、俯、翻、轉，都稍做穿插安排，以求有較多的變化，布穀鳥（班鳩）則是很常見的留鳥，特地把牠們放大來欣賞。Orange（橘紅） I once took a group of students to sketch on Mt. Feifeng at Chiunglin in Hsinchu County. Before we arrived, we stopped to look at the many mandarin orange groves along the way. A wooden sign by the road said: "Try them for free; they must be weighed and paid for if taken out of the orchard." The forty- and fifty-year-old ladies with me immediately put down their sketchbooks and pencils when they saw this sign, and disappeared into the depths of the orchard.
In this painting I used a realistic style to portray mandarin orange trees. For the sake of variety, the leaves are shown from many angles and in many positions. The cuckoo is a very common local bird, and I enlarged these two so viewers can appreciate them better. ＠   橘紅（彩墨）（局部放大圖） |
10月30日
