Laines Baits Alviso San Jose California
by Xueling Zou
Original - Sold
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14.000 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Laines Baits Alviso San Jose California
Artist
Xueling Zou
Medium
Painting - Watercolor - Original Art By Xueling Zou
Description
Plein Air @ Alviso San Jose CA on Oct. 8 2019。
Arrived at the location around 10am, just tried to avoid traffic in the morning. This unique building of the Laine's Bites shop was the one I had wanted to paint for a while, set up my station under a young tree with enough shade. A guy was sweeping the street, looked like he was trying to clean off all the dirt from the ground. There was so much dust in the air, I felt it hard to breath, my street parked car was covered with dust very soon. It was OK, I kept telling myself, and focused on my work... Maybe an hour later after the sweeping guy left, a spaying water truck started to clean the street. It was the most busy, small T-junction with endless huge trucks passing by both ways with the loudest squishing noises of heavy metal sounds. Wow, it was my first time to deal with this kind of situation, most of time I had to wait for the trucks to pass by, just because I want to see the object I was working on. The sweeping truck was back and forth at least 10 times in front of me for cleaning the streets. No matter how hard they tried to clean the street, the trucks delivering the dirt kept passing by. I was thinking that those people working hard, but not efficient at all. Make sure to go there NOT during working hours next time.
I was very happy that the owner of the shop bought my original Plein Air work. His wife told me that my painting meant so much to him and his family. He was the forth or fifth generation owned the shop. He was so proud of his family business, also he already used my painting picture as his smart phone's screen saver. All my hard work is worth it just for hearing such a heartwarming story.
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February 12th, 2021
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Comments (10)
Lois Bryan
Such beautiful brush work ... I love watercolor!! You really worked hard to get this work of art completed ... I'm so glad the shop owner appreciated everything you did ... and I'm sure this will be a treasure for him always!! l/f
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Taphath Foose
This is a wonderful work, Xueling!! Love the backstory! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Beautiful Watercolors"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!