such a great class we were all loathe to leave.
Our parting shot – a sign to remember us by. I lettered it.
Fealing painted it.
Quick peek in the candy store aka Cheap Joes warehouse.
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Margaret XXX
Category: Fealin Lin
Day 303 – Feeling Fealing Part 3
Another great day with Fealing Lin. I highly recommend her. Just the best most giving teacher.
We worked and worked and a lot of work is getting done. Tomorrow critiques!!
The egg. Did you know if you draw on a BOILED egg or a plastic one like this it mimics the perspective of your head as it moves around up and down. Great way to teach it.
Black and white value study she did of two men in Chinatown. She doesn’t use pencil because it takes too long but instead uses Cheap Joes American Journey Warm Black and a big brush to whip it out.
Kenyatta
I added some bubbles and some pebbles aka some curls. I think I will do more. I also need to bring her shirt into a little better focus. Less busy color. Aka knock the color back! But I am pleased with her.
Boone
After
I worked on my Man from Shanghai some more as well as my fisherman, Kenyatta and Boone. I knocked the background back with Inathridone blue.
Before. The background is pretty but easter eggy. I also added the “jewelry” and some bubbles. I think his mouth is still off a twitch and I need to fix that. I am
Pretty happy with him. More work probably but we were off to show Fealing Mast General store in Valle Crucis a lovely secluded valley near Boone and buy some shoes for our achy feet.
The store has an old potbelly stove complete with rocking chairs.
Lots of old barns and lovely mountains. Not the greatest photos but the sun was not cooperating today.
Rhododendrons were starting to bloom. Lovely things. Of course we didn’t need to drive twenty miles to see them. When we got back we noticed a bushful next to our hotel!! We did have a great time laughing and googling and taking pictures!!
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Margaret XXX
Day 302 – Feeling Fealing #2
Sketching Fealing when I should be paying attention.
Another one when I should have been paying.
Ben maybe finished.
Kenyatta mostly done.
My old fisherman
Beginning Boone Walton.
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Margaret XX
Day 301 – Feeling Fealing!
I actually drew a sketch of her today but it’s back on my table in Cheap Joes studio. Wonderful teacher. So thorough so accessible and so thoughtful.
We started off the day with breakfast at our hotel with 6 or 7 classmates and our lovely teacher Fealing. The day was off to an auspicious start.
Then back to Cheap Joes to work. Mike and I worked till 6. And this is what I did.
The paintings are done in layers of washes.
Ben
Layer 1 should have started at the top and been colors. Blended softly together. Got in a hurry because the teacher called us to class. Pesky bubbles from painting wet into partially drying wet…groan!
Ben
Layer 2 Linking shadows softening edges.
Ben
Layer 2/3 adding more darks softening edges
Ben
Layer 3 Adding more darks and color and trying to keep it soft but focused!! Still more to do but that’s all I have done as of now. Think I am find to lift some of the dark blue on his eye. The beard was done with a wash of cerulean. It was magic the way a beard just popped off the page!! Ultramarine blue and burnt umber In the hair. Keeping the edges soft.
Boy does his mouth need work…hopefully sooner or later it will work!!
The Chinese Man
15×22 300# Stephen Quiller cold press
I call him Inscrutable. Dads photo album called him “Not Many Left.” This is how he looked this morning.
The Chinese Man
More Layer 3 – I added a lot of darks. Can you find them!? And some reds. Darkened the hands, the eyes. Added some reds. Killed some of the whites. Added darks to the frog closures on the jacket and under the right collar. Added blue to the hat.
If you want to try painting him feel free to save this photo.
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Margaret XX
Day 300 – 300 Consecutive Days of Drawing and Posting
The Man from Shanghai.
Based on an old photo of Dads taken in pre WW2 Shanghai. Lots left to do. But I am pleased with him so far .
This is an old photograph from my dad’s Marine Corp album. He and other Marines aboard the USS Henderson were evacuating Marines from China before WW2 because they knew the Japanese were coming. The Marines guarded the embassies and consulates. Before returning to Honolulu the ship dropped the Marines off at the Phillipines never realizing that it too would shortly be overrun by the Japanese.
Taking a class from Fealing Lin at Cheap Joes. The sweetest lady and her paintings are beautiful. Fealing is a great teacher, very thorough, knowledgeable diligent and so talented!
The paintings are done with many layers of glazing. Glazing is sheer transparent color that allows more layers of the same transparent color on it. She often does three to four layers of colors.
The Man from Shanghai
Layer 1. This isn’t the best example of a first layer wash because I was in a hurry to finish and painted it out of order. I should have started at the top and let it drip downward. I didnt use enough water and I kept going back into the already laid down colors!! OPPPS!!!
Kenyatta
Layer 1 -This layer is all wet in wet very watery glazes allowed to run down the board and drip.
Kenyatta
Layer 2- Hard edge on her right cheek and right forehead is a NO NO…another oops!
Kenyatta
Layer 3
Kenyatta
This is after layer three but the hair should have been included in layer 3. Still trying to keep the edges and colors loose. Oh so difficult…at least for me!!
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Maggie XX
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