<h1 style="text-align: center;">序言</h1><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">2015年元月，进入理工行业41年後，我终于告别了职场。因为喜欢，在艺术的荒漠中开始耕耘。四年回首，初现绿洲，从150多幅习作中选出65幅编入此集。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">母亲是我绘画的启蒙人，遗憾的是仅仅看过她的一次示范画牡丹。母亲去世20年了，她留给我的除了墨汁颜料至今仍在使用，还有些许灵感。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">感谢诺城华人基督教会国画班陈碧玉老师的倾囊相授; 感谢北京画家冯倩老师的热诚帮助; 也感谢画班老同学们的指点启发。感谢网络上所有画稿的原作者, 也感谢朋友们的点赞，万维网诗坛诗友们的鼓励。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">特别致谢我家先生的全力支持和大量劳动。三分画，七分裱，他是全部画卷的裱装和摄影师，画集的推出他的贡献占了七分。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">金川 （ 秋韵 ）</p><p class="ql-block">2019.7.23</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">图片修版、封面设计: 金蓉(其乐蓉蓉)</p><p class="ql-block">封面题诗: 曹雪葵</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> Forword</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p>In January of 2015, I finally said goodbye to my technical profession which I had been in for 41 years and have been since then working in the field of art for leisure.</p><p><br></p><p> Looking back to the past 4 year, it was </p><p>fruitful, so I happily gathered 63 from more than 150 of my paintings into this gallery. </p><p><br></p><p>My mother was my premier teacher on </p><p>Chinese Painting, regretfully, I was not interested in learning while she tried to teach me. Mom had passed away 20 years now, luckily, what I inherited from her was not only painting materials but some of her talent.</p><p><br></p><p>Many thanks to my teacher Biyu Chen of the painting class in Knoxville Chinese Christian Church, the painting artist Qian Feng of Beijing, friends around me and in the on-line poetry club, as well as original authors of internet art galleries. </p><p><br></p><p>Special thanks to my dear husband Dr. Miting Du, his support and effort on framing, photographing made this gallery possible.</p><p><br></p><p> My sister Jinrong Liu of Chengdu helped on picture editing, as well as the front and back cover design.</p><p><br></p><p> Master Xuekui Cao of Wan Wei on-line poetry club was the author of poem on the cover page: </p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;">Painting with brush,</p><p style="text-align: center;">You made flowers speech.</p><p style="text-align: center;">What flowers are whispering?</p><p style="text-align: center;">“Rhymer of autumn, let’s dating.”</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p><br></p><p>Jinchuan Liu (Autumn Charm)</p><p>2019.10</p>