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Title: Shirley's Art Work 1214 -Xieyi 708- Shirley's 513rd Assignment & the 103rd One in the 2nd Phase of CNAA- the 142nd painting in the US & 20th painting in my 7th American Travel--Jan 21-29, 2017
Artist: Shirley Yiping Zhang
Size: 64cm x 114 cm (25.19inches x 44.88 inches)
Completed Time: Jan 29, 2017
Remarks:
This is my 708thChinese Xieyi Painting and my 1214th painting since 2003and My 512nd assignment and 103rd painting in the study of the second phase as a candidate for Master of Fine Arts of Chinese National Academy of Arts.

Also, it is the 142nd painting I have painted in the US 2008 to 2017 & the 20th painting in my 7th American Travel.

This is the 4th painting I did in 2017, and I completed on the Chinese New Year's Day.

Today, now, when I am writing this note here, I can still feeling a little bit uncomfortable on my heart area, therefore, I am trying to complete my jobs for today as soon as possible. Do you know why?

I drafted this painting since Jan 21, but I completed it last night, Jan 29, for I have experienced something hard twice.

After finishing the draft, suddenly, I felt my heart uncomfortable, it seemed like a big stone pressing on the area of my heart and I could feel my heart beating and sometimes trembling. I knew the bad signal for I had had a similar experience in 1993, after working on creating the first Statistic Frame of Chinese Securitas Markets with 6 report series for my pages for a new national newspaper -- Securitas Times for 48 hours continuously... so, quickly, I put down all of the jobs and lied down on the bed, after sleeping for over 20 hours, I felt better. Then as soon as came back from my English lesson, I had another sleep for 7 hours, then, I felt much better... Then a serious headache hit me Tuesday to Friday…

Anyway, since it is not the problem of heart, I did not worrying about myself, and I kept working on the painting as long as I could, and I completed it on the Chinese New Year's Day.

Sequentially, I am trying to find my own style to color the painting. On the surface, you see it is made of Chinese ink, but, except for drawing it, I did not use any Chinese ink to color it.

What colors have I used? Can you find it out? :-)

After checking the painting online, my supervisor Professor Mu Jiashan said “ It’s good, the quality of your painting has been improved. ”

How do you think of this painting? Do you enjoy it?

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn,you can also publish your opinions on Message Board . :-)

I do hope to hear your good advice and directions.

--Shirley Yiping Zhang
Jan 29, 2017(American Time)