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by William Lum
$39.00
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Our lightweight, microfiber tapestries are available in three different sizes and feature incredible artwork to complement any wall space. Each tapestry has hemmed edges for secure hanging with nails and/or thumbtacks.
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This is my watercolor painting of Eastern Bakery at 720 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California. This painting was for the theme of Memory for the... more
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This is my watercolor painting of Eastern Bakery at 720 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California. This painting was for the theme of Memory for the 60 day and 60 theme Isolation Art Challenge. I grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown and my adoptive mother, Jean Lum, worked as a waitress at Eastern Bakery in the 60’s through the 70’s. Jean was only four foot six inches but she was a hard working lioness with a very big heart. My sister, Cynthia, also worked part time there behind the bakery counter in her senior year at Galileo High School. My mother would sometimes bring treats home from the bakery like pineapple turnovers, lemon tart pastries (with a cherry on top), sesame balls, and custard tarts. For a few years in the 60’s we lived in an apartment only 100’ feet away from this bakery.
Eastern Bakery is the oldest bakery in Chinatown and it first opened in 1924. One half of the business was a diner (now gone) serving American food and the other half a bakery...
My search to find my biological family was the genesis of my journey into the world of art. When I finally found my birth family, at the age of 40, I was plunged into a new and very different family. On one occasion while talking with the father I had never known, I discovered that my great uncle was the renowned watercolorist Dong Kingman. Fatefully discovering a cheap watercolor paint set, and intrigued by my relationship with Kingman, I wondered if I had inherited any of his talent. This lingering question spurred me into trying to paint. My first challenge was deciding what subjects I would paint. As a fan of Van Gogh, and knowing that he painted images from his day to day life: houses, fields, people working, I decided to do the...
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Jerry Abbott
Love your story!
Paul Mangold
Congratulations!!!! This is an exquisite work, such awesome detail.
William Lum replied:
Thank you Paul
William Lum
At least to the details that make it convincing... I left out graffiti on the walls, some window details, and other bits and pieces. There's a group of four people that I made three, by mistake. :) But I was okay with the end product.
Watch and Relax
Is very interesting how you insisted on every detail in the picture. Congrats on your sale!