My friend of Autumn
by Alfred Ng
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$500
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16.000 x 20.000 inches
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Title
My friend of Autumn
Artist
Alfred Ng
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
Recently, I come across a 34 years old calendar I had kept which is not uncommon for packrat like I. The reason I kept this calendar was it was given to me by my first watercolor teacher Barbara Green. She was a former president of the Canadian society of painter in watercolor. (I did not know about this until many years later.) She was at the end of her teaching career at Central technical school�s art department which was renowned for the artists it has produced. I was just a teenager recently emigrated from Hong Kong. Perhaps it was that reason; she has spent more attention to me.
One day, she must notice the lack of proper art supply I had, she brought out her own watercolor bushes for me to use. They were not your run of mill brushes, they were sable brushes!
Around Christmas time that year, she gave me this gorgeous calendar which has some beautiful watercolor paintings of birds and animals by a Germen artist Klaus Meyer Gasters. The paintings were done in the wet on wet technique has Chinese painting feel to it.
Ms Green explains with this calendar maybe I could learn from it and combine with my Chinese heritage into my own painting.
The last few days, as I look at the paintings in this special calendar, I not only admired the paintings also remember the kindness of this wonderful teacher I had.
This painting of the gray squirrel is done to the style of Klaus Meyer Gastor. There are numbers of them at the Grange Park near my studio. During the fall and winter I would offer them with peanuts as their food supply are rather limited
Watercolor on 140 arches rough paper, 16�x20�, 2009.
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December 15th, 2009
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