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wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

Over the Christmas holidays I finished a large drawing that I had been working on since the summer, on and off, but then life took over and I didn't find time to publish it.

It is a scene from Joseph von Sternberg's 1932 movie "Shanghai Express", featuring Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich.

For the story of behind this scene please read my (long) blog post https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/shanghai-express/.

It is the most complex large drawing I have attempted so far.
As usual, it is the expressions on the faces of both characters that interested me. I wanted to show their watchfulness and apprehension.

I used the rough watercolour paper I like (Fabriano Artistico, 300 g/m² cold pressed “not”), 56 cm x 76 cm. I set up the drawing in ordinary HB pencil and Tombow MONO 100 graphite lead pencils (2B, 4B and 5B). I used a Chinese ink stick and applied the ink using calligraphy brushes.

#drawing #fediart #TraditionalArt #ShanghaiExpress #AnnaMayWong #MarleneDietrich

Two people in an old train compartment, looking out of the internal windows. Standing on the left, is a young Chinese woman with long, loose back hair, wearing pale silk pyjamas with a flower design. Her right arm is reaching out to touch the window frame. On her right stands a young German woman with short blonde hair, wearing dark men's pyjamas with white piping, leaning on the window frame with one hand on each. The pyjama vest is partially open at the neck, showing a glimpse of some thin garment she is wearing underneath. Behind them are the louvred shutters of the outside windows and the luggage racks with bags and suitcases above them and part of a on open suitcase on a small table.