This is my 590
Chinese Xieyi Painting and
my 1065th painting since 2003and My 102nd Painting in the USA and the 26th One in My 6th American Travel.
After painting 8 chrysanthemum paintings with Chinese ink as my daily practice, still I wanted to paint, then I painted the two peonies.
About 1 or 2 months ago, a young student of Missouri State University, who had helped me in my current travel called me and wished me to paint a picture for him as a gift to send one of his professors. I prmised to paint but I had no any emotion to work on it ( unless I had to paint in the classroom for my teaching in the K-12 schools ) because I had been in the exhausted situation for the house purchasing, extensive teaching and studying schedules...Until Thanksgiving, Nov 25 / 26, I felt much better for the teaching jobs in 3 local K-12 schools had been finally finished on Nov 22 and I had also moved into my new house on Nov 18.
Even though I felt my hands out of practice, in my heart, it was full of the happiness for I could paint in a much better conditions finally...
I do felt that the flowers had reflected my heart. Therefore, I have called the student and asked him to come to choose one of the paintings.
To be honest, since I went to art colleges in Beijing, I have seldom sent my paintings to anyone else. If I must do it, I would go to ask my tutor, to choose something best at that time ponit. Because I am still in the studying process, it is not the time to do that yet.
How do you think of the two paintings? Do you enjoy them?
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn,you can also publish your opinions on Message Board . :-)
--Shirley Yiping ZhangNov 30, 2015