Landscape: Snow on Abbott Blvd. Fort Lee, NJ

 

 

The sidewalk was slippery on some spots where the house owners on the street didn't clean the snow. If no one had walked on the snow and it wasn't that bad. However, if there were people who had already trodden on the snow, it was pressed into ice. Therefore, I had to be careful walking on it while pushing the shopping buggy with my painting kit in it. I liked Abbott Blvd. It was broad and the two ways were divided by a long stretch of grass with boulders on the edge of the grass and large trees of different kinds. In summer, the whole street was covered by the shady foliage, making it very pleasant to walk there. Even on the snowy day like this, I saw people jogging or walking their dogs there. The views were different along the road; at some places there were concrete tables and benches. I saw people play or gather together there like in a park before. As a matter of fact, it was. At one of the crossroads, I saw a small stone Korean War monument with flags of both countries flying there. There also erected a sign which said Korean War Memorial Park. I didn't read in detail but guessed it was in memory of local veterans who fought in Korea in 1950s.

 

I was standing on the street corner of Abbott Blvd. and Bridle St. I hated myself for forgetting to bring paper towel. Luckily, the lady living on the street corner came home and I bumped a stack of napkins from her. Otherwise, I didn't know where to wipe the brushes when I needed to. I had to include in my picture the lady in red who was walking her dog. Hope you like the picture.

 



Landscape: A Crisp Morning After Snow and Rain

It is really good to have a bright crisp morning after more than a week under an overcast sky no matter where you went. It was cold but didn't feel so bad 'cause there was no wind. I didn't walk very far from where I lived before I found what to paint. The scene was at the crossroad of Deerwood Rd. by Keswick Pl., Fort Lee, NJ. In fact, I was standing on a hilltop, watching down the slope of Deerwood Road. The morning sun shone from my left-hand side, dragging the dark shadows almost across the street. The small white house glared in the morning sun. From where I stood, I could see the purplish highland beyond the edge of the city. The whole view provided a good variety in color, shape, and value. The painting took an hour and a half. The whole process was simply a total sum of my emotional response to senses but very little redundant wishwash in terms of strokework. Part of the reason might be the cold. Even though I didn't feel it while painting, I believe it was because of my focus on painting and very little attention spared to the cold sensation. Toward to the end, I did feel my muscles in one foot became stiff and I had to jump up and down a couple of times to get off the kinks.



Drawing: From My Window

It snowed yesterday evening. I was thrilled, thinking I could go out to paint a snowy view today. To my disappointment, the snow was followed by a heavy rain which melted all the snow away. The rain lasted till noon today. I made a drawing from my window. As you can tell, there is no snow left.



Oil Sketch: Young Pianist Christine

I was thinking of going out to paint here in Fort Lee, NJ this morning but my daughter warned me that it was very cold and cloudy outside and themperature was freezing. It went from bad to worse in the afternoon and began to snow. Maybe I should wait till the snow stopped, I told myself. Then it got so dark outside that I could not go on reading by the window at 2 PM (If possible, I always prefer natural light over lamp. It happened that my granddaughter Audrey and her cousin Christine came back home from outside. Christine was a well-trained young pianist. She had to practice three hours everyday. When I saw her playing the piano, Quang Ho's oil sketches of musicians popped into my mind. Immediately I set up my kit and did this sketch.It was really a pleasure to paint while listening to classic music. It took me only an hour and a half. As a matter of fact, I did very few oil figure sketches before even though I had painted numerous head studies. Overall, I felt good with the process. I didn't use many colors.



Cityscape: An Old Rusty Railroad Bridge over Metropolitan Ave. Queens

Yesterday I went there. It was a sunshiny afternoon. I clearly saw the rich contrast between large dark blocks of shaded spots and sunlit part. That was what I planned to do today. However, it turned out to be another cloudy day today. I waited till after lunch, the sky still didn't clear up. I didn't want to wait any longer, so I put my kit in a shopping buggy and pulled it all the way to the place. It is hard to believe that the scene you see is only a few blocks from the beautiful Forest Hills Garden. It was Christmas Eve. The traffic was heavy. I stood on the street corner of Michael's parking lot. Since it was one of the shortest days in a year, I had to rush and exclude things that were not "necessary."

I just want to share with you the award I won the day before I left for New York for my painting Metro Extension Bridge under Construction at Sanibel Captiva Art league show with the theme: Shadows and Reflections. Unfortunately, they misspelled my name in the paper.

 





Sketches: New Ear Mufflers

 

 

It was colder than yesterday. My wife said it was time to do some grocery shopping. We took F Train and switched to 7 Train to Flushing. On our way there I did two quick sketches. The above is one of them.



Landscape: A Wintry Afternoon at Forest Hills, New York

It is the second or third day of winter. It rained hard through the most of the night and this morning but stopped by 10 AM. I checked on the weather forecast and it didn't seem to too bad for the rest of the day. Tempreature-wise, it was not very cold. However, it could be windy. Originally, I planned to paint an old rusty railroad overhead pass near the Michael's on Metropolitan Ave., Queens, but by the time I was walking through Forest Hills Garden, it became so windy and the sky so overcast that I didn't think it was wise to keep walking another half hour before settling down to paint, so I decided to find a spot as soon as possible. I turned into Greenway Terrace and found the view attractive. Quickly I set up and got started. There were many English-style houses with big roofs. The yellowish stone church, which I found later was the First Church of Christ, Scientist, provided variety in color. I didn't realize till then that Christian Science Church had such deep roots in the neighborhood.

It was so windy that a gust of wind suddenly turned around the corner and blew away my palette. Fortunately it went sidewise and didn't come to my chest. I wore only the vinyl gloves. In about a half hour, my fingers felt numb, so I had to hurry. The whole thing took me only an hour a dna half. I like this old beautiful residential area and will come back to paint more.



Recent Sketches

Necking on New York Subway

Waiting for the Flight



Landscape: The Fosters' Private Boat Ramp

I went to the Fosters again this morning. It was very cloudy but not raining. Everything in nature looked true to its local color. At first, I meant to paint the animals. There were two cows and a horse behind the fence and they were very friendly and curious. The horse liked being touched by people. While I was setting up my easel, I saw Janet Foster's daughter Dawn drive up to me and stopped her trunk next to the fence. She apologized to me by saying, "I don't mean to cause you trouble but it is their eating time and I have to feed them." I said that there was no problem and I hadn't started painting yet. However, the cows and horse simply followed her to the shack and started helping themselves to the brunch there. They didn't seemed to come back out within a short period of time. I didn't have a choice and needed to think of something else to paint. It wasn't very difficult to decide. I turned my easel a 60-degree angle to the left and faced the scene now you see in the picture. Between the Fosters and their neighbor, there was a dug-up canal. They each had a boat ramp leading into the canal. As you can see, there was an overturn flat-bottom boat nearby under the tree. I also saw a motor boat in the shack. Obviously they were not used for quite sometime because they were either overgrown with moss or covered with dust. There was also a towing carrier not far from the boat. Hope you like the painting.



Landscape: Floridian Clouds

 

 

If you drive westward on Highway 78 from the small town of Alva, after passing the winding part between a few horse farms and beyond Old Olga Road, you will notice the fields suddenly spread out and the land was kind of open and hilly. The large space reminds me of Montana which people, sometimes, call Big Sky state. However, that part of Florida happens to have a big sky, too. I am not sure if today's clouds were seasonal. Usually I saw those clouds more often in August. They were what meteorologists called cirrus or cirri (pl.) with wispy filamentous tufted streaks hanging in the air. Anyway, the view looked paintable. So today I simply stopped my car there on the road shoulder and took the kit from the trunk. Quickly I set up and started to paint. I did it really fast, not even two hourse including preparation because I noticed the dark clouds were rolling over from the east and remembered the weather person said we would have PM rain. I had good luck. Right after I packed up my stuff and hopped into the car, it began to sprinkle. By the time I was on SR 80, it was pouring. I smiled to myself and realized that the rain helped me avoid digressing from my focus. Hope you like the painting.

Landscape: Miromar Outlet

 

 

We had our last class today. Carl made comments on each student's major projects and then assigned a letter grade to him or her. Since I was one of the two auditor in classs, we were told to spread our works on the table instead of posting them on the wall. The class began earlier than usual, so we called it a day by noon. After class I drove to Miromar Outlet to make this painting. It was cloudy today. The sun peeked out intermittently and shone only for a few seconds each time. Therefore, I had to hurry and catch the light quickly. I also had to remember the difference when the sun was gone. Even before I finished it i realized the building was leaning a little. Well, just a study, I didn't bother to change. Maybe someday, I will repaint this scene. It is very colorful.

Sketch: Chatting with the Clerk.

Chatting with the Clerk

 

Feeling Bored at Mall

 

At T.G.I. Fridays

 

 

Today I went to Sanibel to submit my two entries for the "Shadows and Reflections" Show organized by Sanibel Captiva Art League. At first I was thinking of doing some plein air painting there. However, I was told that unaccepted submissions had to be picked between 2 and 4 PM. It was a time dilemma. I didn't like the waiting, either. Fortunately, I had a friend Pam working there. Pam was willing to take care of it in case my submissions were not accepted. I thought I needed to do something else for the trip. I had my sketchbook with me, so I went to the Edison Mall and did some sketches. Above are three of them.



Study: The Fosters' Farm and Cow

I called Mrs. Janet Foster this morning but she didn't answer the phone. Therefore, I left a message and simply drove there to try my luck. I didn't think she was napping at 9 AM in the morning. When I got there, she was already outside of her house, which was on the Caloosatchee River, watching her daughter planting some tropical plants in some large plastic containers. She explained to me that those large containers were actually used for growing tree saplings and her family was in the green nursery business.

In the picture I tried to express light as the major subject. I believe I had everything under control in the beginning. However, when larged blocks were laid out, I realized I kind of deviated from my original approach. One thing I felt strongly from this experience was that as an artist we could not be too miserly with paint. Sometimes, we do need to apply paint profusely to achieve the effect.



Landscape: The Cabin on the Water

 

 

This is what I did this morning. Personally, I felt good about the painting process. The morning sun made it easier to block in large space with dark value. Even though I painted the picture on a 8 x 10 panel, smaller than my usual 9 x 12 size, I didn't feel it was difficult to include the details I wanted to. I made the selection because I spent quite some time recently on Peter Fiore's website and was very much amazed by his capability to depict minute details in 8 x 10 size. So I decided to challenge myself. I liked the compostion with objects naturally laid out there. Everything is very much the way I was it except the fact that I reduced the number of boats which stood in the background. Hope you like it.

Drawing Work: Torso Practice

 

 

This was the last session of classroom drawing before the semester wrap-up next week. To me it was simply an exploration. Overall there were gains and losses.I seldom did a soft pastel which presented the image in so imaginary lighting. In the process I enjoyed learning the  textual expression with pastel even though I had to readjust the color relationships constantly. The biggest loss was the paper. I meant to use a blue charcoal paper, but there were no blue paper left in the pad. I should have started a new pad but just hated to see leftover paper everywhere. I ended up using the green paper. As soon as I started, I knew I had made a big mistake with the choice color of the paper. Even though they were both cool colors, blue and green didn't go well with each other.



Portrait Sketches in Acrylic Lolita and Beverly

 Lolita, Nursing Home Resideent

Acrylic 9 x 12

 

Beverly, Nursing Home Resident

Acrylic 9 x 12

 

 

Today I went to Winkler Court Nursing Home. Instead of the hall, I was working in their group living room. It was much better because my models could watch TV and they didn't even ask for break. Beverly was a happy lady. Anatomically she was pretty typical for her age. The part between nose and mouth was longer than the lower part, between mouth and chin, due to the aging of facial skin. Lolita happened to have visitors, who thanked me again and again. I feel I can handle acrylic better thanbefore . Compared with oil, its difficult is dring too fast. Hope you like the sketches.



Two Sketches Made at the Cinema Theater

Waiting for the Movie to Begin

Signing up for a Regal Card

 

I went to see the movie Lincoln this afternoon. It was pretty good. It gave me a crash lesson on American history. I believe the movie makers spent a lot of time doing research so that history could be authentically reflected in terms of language, facts, mannerism, and everyday life. I grabbed a few wketches. Above are just two of them.

Landcape: Beautiful Sunshine

As you may tell, this is Fort Myers Yacht Basin. Originally I didn't plan to paint it a second time. First I went to the First Presbyterian Church. The church was beautiful with huge oaks on two sides. After walking back and forth around the area, I realized it was difficult to compose the picture. Anyway, I didn't find an acceptable angle, so I went back to my car and drove down to the waterfront. I was impressed by the contrast between the white color of boats and building and the dark color of the water in midday time. Therefore, I decided to paint this view. It is not a standard size icture. Actually I used a 11 x 14 panel but left out the bommom part so that the composition fit the scene.

While I was painting there, I made friends with Jazz musician Jonathan.Dunnicliff. He happened to come and watch me paint. Suddenly, he asked me why I was painting outside the concrete short fence on the sidewalk instead of inside. I responded by pointing to the"Private Property"sign on the steel cable. He was very nice and told me that next time if I could get a better view inside, even on the dock, just give him a call. He lived in a 32-foot sailing boat docked nearby. I love this kind of friendly help-offerings because after my recent experiences with con-artists, con-dentists, con-rental agents, con-builders, con-insurance businessmen and other con-people, people like Jonathan remind me that there is still a beautiful side of human nature, too.

Landscape: Getting Ready for the Next Voyage

 

 

It was a miscommunication. Yesterday my friend called me asking if I would help him have the name written on the fishing boat. I said no problem, but  forgot to ask when he needed my help. I took it for granted that it was today since he told me their Thanksgiving holiday extended into the weekend. When I got there, I was told that my friend was out to get some tools.  I thought I could do some sketches while waiting. However, It made me panic to realize that my sketchbook was not in the car. Fortunately I had my painting kit in the trunk. So I set up and made this 8 x11 size sketch in oil.



Landscape: Watching the World Passing by

 

 

This afternoon I was driving along Highway 78, thinking of painting some farm animals. I saw some cows on the farm. There happened to come a country mail delivery lady. I asked her who owned the farm. She answered the Forster family and told me to drive down a winding country road and their house was at its end by the Caloosahatchee River. When I got there, all the doors were open except the screen doors. I knocked on the door frame and hollered, but no one responded except the dog barking behind the screen door. I had to leave. By the time I almost got back on Highway 78, I ran into Mrs. Janet Forster's grandson who told me that his Grandma must be napping and couldn't hear me. Therefore, I kept driving along 78 till nearly reaching the Owl Creek Boat Yard when I saw the horse standing there watching the traffic leisurely. I pulled over on the road shoulder and set up. The painting was finished not even two hours. Hope you like it.

Portrait: Fourth Grader Rebecca

 

 

This is Rebecca, who is the sister of Sandra, two years her senior. She is pretty and has a sweet smile. The sketch is done in acrylic. Hope you like it.

 



Sketch: Waiting to Have a Picture Taken with Santa

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A girl was waiting patiently for her turn to have a picture taken with Santa as her father was watching her with love.



Landscape: Heavy Boat Lift at Owl Creek

This morning I went to Owl Creek Boat Works. It was a beautiful day. The workers had pulled out the heavy boat lift and left it there on the main road for the weekend. There was a lot of overlapping of objects. I tried to depict the giant machines and the sight at the boat yard which seemed to be in disarray but actually was very well organized. I left my car there as part of the scene to increse the complexity and backed out all the way to the waterside. You can see in the lower left corner of the picture a little bit of what they called "slit" at the boat yard. It was for boats to come to the cloest spot to be lifted and then repaired there. Hope you like it.



Portrait in Acrylic: Second-Grader Sandra

 

 

I did a quick sketch in acrylic this afternoon. Hope you like it.



Popcorn Line at Movie Theater

 

 

This afternoon I went to Bell Tower Movie Theater to see Argo. It was supposed to be a thriller but not so much as to make one hold his breath. The plot was a little too simplistic and characterization wasn't, to my mind, fully developed. It was a good serious movie, though. It won't make you feel regretable after you watch it. There was about 15 minutes before the show began and I happened to have my sketchbook with me, so I grabbed two quick drawings. One was done in the hall when a number of people stood in a line for their popcorn. The other I did inside the theater before the lights went out. A couple behind me diagonally on my right-hand side were eating popcorn. It was pretty dark but I managed to catch their images, I think.





Landscape: Owl Creek Boat Works Office, Alva, FL

This morning I went to Owl Creek Boat Works. They seemed to have good business. Not only did I see quite a number of boats which arrived there recently, but also see an unusual large number of boat owners there, either checking out the boats they docked there or getting ready to sail. Anyway, it was weekend. I loved the scene with a yacht jacked up right in front of their office and a SUV parked there. It worked perfectly there to break the rigid rectangle of the door frame. There was a rich variety of different geometric shapes in the picture. The soft green color of the building blended well with the boat and the SUV. I didn't have to do any changes.  A few employees of the boatyard looked at my painting and told me that it was a shame that Mr Butcher, the boatyard owner, wasn't in the office. Otherwise he would have liked it very much if he had seen it. I  hope you like it, too.



Subjective Composition

 

15-Minute Life Drawing

(Part of the Subjective Composition Requirement)

 

Subjective Composition (Unfinished)

 

Subjective Composition II

 

 

 

This is a two-week drawing class work called "Subjective Composition." The same model did two 15-minute poses first. Each student, based on his or her perspective and poses sketched on paper, drafted a number of thumbnail compositions and decided how one should goup the two poses in the same picture. While the model repeated the two poses by turns, students should form his/her own composition and fill in the details. We will continue the process and try to finish the drawing next week.

 

In the second-week session, instead of continuing my composition last week, I started a new one. I liked to play with the medium -- charcoal mixed with soft pastel. It is very expressive and fast. so for the new one,  I simply reversed the two poses to see how they looked differently. That's why I edited this old post instead of writing a new one.





Sketches in Acrylic: Zilda and Jackie

Zilda

Jackie

 

Yesterday I called Kirsten, the Manager of the Reflections Unit (Alzheimer) at Winkler Court Nursing Home, saying I was going there to paint today and that I also intended to do two portraits. So when I got there around 9:30 AM. Zilda had been chosen to pose for me first. Zilda was a very amiable lady. She didn't need a break even when I asked her. She was quiet and didn't smile much. I used about two hours including settling up and waiting for Zilda. She finally cracked a sweet smile when I showed her my completed portrait of her. In the middle of painting, Ellen, whom I painted before, recognized me and came to talk and distract me, but she was nice and I have learned to cope with this kind orf situations at Winkler.

 

I gave myself a lunch break since it was also the lunchtime for Winkler residents. When I came back from lunch, an interesting thing happened. I saw an elderly lady sitting in a wheelchair stuck right in the middle of the hall. As I was about to pass her, she suddenly asked me, "Could you push me that way?" I immediately came to realize that in their world anyone who could walk fast and straight must be a Winkler employee. What the heck. "Of course," I responded. Then she navigated me like a ship captain: "Make a right turn... yes...Slow down, please..." Following her directions, we arrived at her room at last. It was Room 303. Then she told me that I might leave.

 

My model in the afternoon was Jackie. Jackie was also quiet, but, unlike Zilda, she was unable to sit still. She seemed to be bothered by the Band-Aid on her hand. I would have been very happy if she could have sat straight for twenty seconds on end since she frequenly bowed down to fondle the bandage. I was proud of myself for handling a situation like that. Even the janitor noticed that, saying "You did this one really fast." In fact, they are both just sketches in acrylic. Hope you like them.





Colorful Umbrella

 

Late this morning, I decided to go to Fort Myers Beach, thinking the weather was so great. It was the first time in a year that I was on beach. Everything stayed the same except for the fact that it cost more to park there than a year ago. I remembered it was $6 for the whole day but I couldn't find this line any more on the meter. OK.

At first, I saw a group of old Germans sitting in the shade. To be cautious, I went over and asked them how much longer they were going to stay. I didn't want them to take off when I set up and got started. The answer was 20 minutes. Of course, I couldn't paint them. Then I noticed, not far from where I stood, a young couple were reading with their opened umbrella leaning on the sand. Chances are they would be stable if they kept reading. So I set up to paint them. I didn't go into details in the picture because I reminded myself that they might leave at any minute. I had to catch the images as quickly as possible. Fortunately, when they got out of their chairs and wrapped up their stuff, I was done with the picture. Hope you like it.



Louise' Kingdom

I use this title because "Kingdom" is the name of the fishing boat and Loiuise is the owner's name. Fortunately I finished painting the two boats before they sailed out of the dock.I think  digressed a little so it took a little longer than it should. Hope you like it.

 

Drawing: Bag Lady (Model Celeste Borah)

 

 

This is a drawing exeercise in class, for one session only. Celeste Borah, the instructor's wife, posed for us as an urban bag lady with a bottle of liquor in her hands. I felt comfortable with soft pastel. Hope you like it.



Landscape: The Oaks of the Williams' Home, Alva, FL

Yesterday evening, I called Shawn, asking if I could go to their farm to paint today. He said no problem and would tell his parents not to let the two old mean dogs out unleashed today. Therefore, I felt pretty at ease today. The two dogs did bark a while, but they were soon tired of doing that and simply left me alone. The oak woods over the house were so big and hung low that the shade under the foliage was very dark. I kept reminding myself that was the feeling I tried to express with the painting. The Williams don't live in the house but use it for storage. I happened to be out of 9 x 12 size panels, so I had to use a 8 x 11panel. If I had had a choice, I would have used 9 x 18 non-standard size to emphasize the darkness of the woods. The old house already had a spooky atmosphere with junk in disarray outside. You almost don't need any decorations tonight for the Halloween.



Mourning (Ink Wash)

This is actually a homework assigned for my drawing class. It is required to be a drawing of "two figures -- full major composition". Like the previous assignment "Needlework", I often try to include a degree of drama in it. That is my personal agenda, especially when there are two figures in the picture. It is not a work about patriotism. No, it is not. If asked about the meaning, I'd rather say it is an expression of sorrows over the loss of young lives, the lives of "have nots" and criticism of those who have  made indiscreet decisions on war and other people's lives while they themselves had their fathers' big pockets to hide in when they were called to go to war.



Landscape: Board Walk

This is a scene I painted facing the sun, so I had to use my umbrella. However, it was very windy this morning. The umbrella was clamped onto my easel but the wind was so strong that it almost blew over the whole thing. So I had to unclamp and close the umbrella. Then it blew off my palette. Now I have learned my lesson -- always keeping a large clip in my easel. This is the board walk where I went fishing last week. Hope you like the picture.



Name Sake

I am an artist. Even though it is a self-styled title, I am proud of it and have been working hard trying to make it worhy of its name. However, when people add the prefix con- to it and refer it to the kind of swindlers who try to cheat money out of innocent people, I am very unhappy. It seems as if either we artists are also involved in stealing money from people or those swindlers's craftiness is part of what we call art. I don't mind if people call them con-politicians, con-bankers, con-business people, but the last thing I would relate to them is artists like myself.

When I became an American around 30 years, I heard people talk about creepy business people like car salespeople, especially used car salespeople. Of course, there are good ones in the business and I hope I didn't overgeneralize it. However, my personal experiences with them are not very encouraging. I bought my first brandnew car almost at its stick price and used the bank recommended by the dealer for a loan. Later, I learned that people like car salespeople love new immigrants because they are suckers who don't know the tricks of capitalist business. That was true that before I bid China farewell, every commodity there had only one price nationwide. If people asked about the price, they were only considering whether they could afford it but never doubt otherwise. Since then I learned and rememberd my lesson. When Ford Company sent me a questionnaire on my second car-purchasing experiences, I was very nasty. I responded by saying, "I am not sure whether your salespeople have a highschool diploma or not, but just tell those cockroaches not to play mathematical tricks with customers, especially watch out for Asian customers."

Unfortunately, I suspect, in around 30 years, the experiences have come back to me now: when people notice your name sounds too anglo-sexon like mine, they take it for granted that you are a gullable bird for a good dish. It may have something to do with bad economy, but basically it is human nature, I think. Yesterday, I received a mail form Hong Kong or Singpore. And I took the time to seriously responded as follows:

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• weimin mo

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• peterwongtungshun828@yahoo.com.hk

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Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:53 AM

Dear Dr. Wong or Thomas or Whatever:

Thank you for your business proposal and you estimation of my IQ, but it is kind of too low for a preson with a Ph.D. I understand, when economy is bad, it is not easy to do any business. It takes great creativity to be a successful con-artist. Chances are people like you who try to be a copycat of stale tricks end up in jail. What is the next thing you want to ask from me, screw loose? My bank account number or social security number?

I am a retire loafer but not retarded. I have some time on hand, so it really amuses me an ignoramus like you to make this kind of proposal to me after a dentist who tried to charge me for a service I never got and a realtor who rent my house and put a sign outside in an attempt to sell my house.

Work harder and come back again.

Weimin Mo

From: Dr Peter WONG Tung Shun <thomas_lkt@singnet.com.sg>
To: info@hsbltd.com
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:31 AM
Subject: Urgent reply Needed

Hello

I am Dr Peter WONG Tung Shun, A Chinese, I have a Mutual business proposal I'm proposing to you.
that I would want you to handle from your country, I will like to seek your consent first.

This project involves a huge specific amount which I can't mention here for security reasons.
It involve a transaction from my bank in Hong Kong, Am a Chinese man
and we are bound by laws here and this transaction requires a foreigner.

If you feel you can have this handled, please let me know by contacting me in my private email:peterwongtungshun828@yahoo.com.hk,
so that I send you an attached comprehensive details of this transaction.

Sincerely,
--
Dr Mr Peter WONG Tung Shun
Member of the executive Directors
(Hang Seng Bank Limited HK)

Life Drawing: Model Kate

This is a life drawing work done in the drawing class for two sessions. I did it pretty fast and, in fact, when Carl asked me to stop and not to overdo it, there were still two sittings, that is, around 40 minutes to go. I think I agreed with him. The drawing would have looked more beautiful if I hadn't gone on with her legs. The upper part of her body would be much more graceful by itself. Maybe I misunderstood in the first place and thought everyone had to draw the full-length. I sort of sensed it in the process but was indecisive. I should have followed my instict.



Alzheimer Patient and Edison Mall Sketches

Originally I planned to paint this morning Shawn's old house. When I opened my window, I noticed it was drizzling, maybe because Hurricane Sandy was nearing to our coast. Therefore, I E-mailed the manager of Alzheimer Unit at the Winkler Court  Nursing Home, Kirsten, saying I was going to paint her patients. Quickly I received her response, "Perfect." At first Kirsten made arrangement for another resident to pose for me, but by the time I set up everything and was ready to paint, Edward looked pretty comfortable in that chair. Seeing that, especially Ed was dressed up to the nneths in his light turquoise suit, Kirsten asked me to paint him instead.

Ed was a nice guy and he was happy to pose for me. The only problem was he dozed off from time to time. Kirsten had to remind him a couple of times. I have, in fact, pretty much used to situations like that. Usually I got the outline to the paper as quickly as possible and tried to adjust later for their shiftings. I never expected my models at Winkler to stay too long in the same pose. So in spite of his fidgetiness, I finished the acrylic portrait in two hours. Hope you like it.

Since I had to go to the Leaf Asian Supermarket to get some Tofu before I went back home, I stopped by at the Edison Mall with my sketchbook. This was the first time that I went there in a year and I noticed the cho cho train was gone. Therefore, I went to the Food Court and grabbed some sketches. See the following.

Taste-Offering Clerk

 

At Cell Phone Booth (1)

 

At Cell Phone Both (2)

 

Horse-Back Riding

 

At Food Court

 

Tired Shoppers ( The woman in the middle looks very skinny and sick)