making Cowbella, day 28

Day 28 was so exciting! It started with a visit from Jun Liu who posed for a photo with Cowbella...

more gems were added to the shapes on Cowbella...

I got to sneak a peak at an enormous painting that Wei Kang had done whilst he was in NY...


Peiliang Jin, the lovely and amazingly talented landscape artist working next to me, pulled off layers of tape from his cow (I snapped this as he pulled off the last 2") revealing perfect lines of colour...






and Chick Lam of "Flowers on Stage" fame (which has the most gorgeous flowers and plants and is like an oasis in the mall) was excited about his special delivery from Hawaii- Hawaiian Volcano Plants!

Wei Kang

One of the wonderful things about creating a cow for the Flushing CowParade has been meeting new artists. I have the honor of working right next to Wei Kang, an incredible artist from Shanghai. When we're alone we communicate through hand gestures and drawings. He brings me new food to try and I reciprocate with coffees and cookies- but it just doesn't compare. Yesterday, Wei brought me to tears when he gave me two of his books which he had signed for me and a drawing he did of me from memory. He also gave me a little hand carved bead. His work is so beautiful and is all painted with a tool he invented himself and has patented called the Rubber Pen. He had been painting on location and not had anywhere to clean his brushes. He attached rubber to the end of one of his brushes and the Rubber Pen was born. The photos posted here are just photographs from the books he gave me... you can see better examples of his work here. I am so grateful and humbled to know Wei Kang!