qiang-huang, a daily painter

Click Here to Bid Last night I did more leaf study and did this one. I had some hard time painting those light color leaves on the wet dark ...

Click Here to Bid My gray study keeps going, just like my leaf study. For the background I used raw umber + white. I felt it is a little pur...

Click Here for Purchase Information Over the weekend I did this gallery level painting. The setup is very similar to the demo I did recently...

Click Here to Bid This painting combines my gray study, leaf study, and my general still life approach together. The repetitive presentation...

Click Here to Bid This painting is still a part of my gray study. I have used ultramarine violet + cadmium green light + white. The mixture ...

I did a demo last night at the Gemini School of Visual Arts and Communication . This is a four year art academy in Cedar Park, TX providing ...

Click Here to Bid This is my third day being full-time in art. What a difference it makes!!! On Monday morning, I was even able to visit a f...

Click Here to Bid I am keeping on reading your emails everyday. I really appreciate your support. I am so sorry I cannot reply individually....

Click Here to Bid After I announced my career transition yesterday, I have experienced something I have never ever imagined before. I saw hu...

I have reached another important milestone for my short life in this small planet. Today is my last day as a full time engineer. I am so thr...

Click Here to Bid I came back to do more leaves and felt I was still not there. I am still way off of the anatomy of the rose leaves. So I p...

Click Here to Bid I remembered many years ago I was in China during the Culture Revolution. Everybody worn the Mao jacket. We didn't hav...

Click Here to Bid Continuing on color mixing I brought up yesterday, the key factor is the purity of the color. If we have very pure blue an...

Recently, I read a book entitled "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green" by Michael Wilcox. It is fascinating. I agree with the aut...

Click Here to Bid "Rose with flowers"? What an idiotic name it is. But you know what I mean. My leaf study has been too academic l...

Click Here to Bid I have stepped on something really hard for me. I spent more than four hours on this 5"x7". To make it look like...

Click Here to Bid As what I said yesterday, I painted a different kind of leaf. I have quite a few rose bushes in the back yard. There are n...

Click Here to Bid I got several new panel samples from Wind River Art Supplies. They are very fine linen with very smooth surfaces. This is ...

Please enjoy my second demo at the Bartlesville workshop. I think my effort on painting leaves starts to pay off. I decided to do a high key...

I am on my way back to Austin from Oklahoma. I had a wonderful workshop here. Thanks to Bartlesville Art Association and wonderful organizer...

I am in Bartlesville OK, teaching a workshop. After the class today, we visited the legendary lady Ms. Jody Kirberger . Jody owns the Telis...

This week, I have been busy coordinating a painting workshop in Austin given by the famous figurative artist Zhaomig Wu. I have this dream f...

Click Here to Bid I am continuing my research. I am working on grays with this one. I tried ultramarine blue plus transparent oxide red and ...

Click Here to Bid In this painting, I applied what I have learned from my recent leaf studies into more finished work. It is sort of worked,...

Click Here to Bid My exploration on leaves continues. I can't say much of progress on this one, but it did document my journey. I think ...

Click Here to Bid I don't know what has happened to Blogger. It was down for a long while. Thank God it comes back. When you deal with c...

Click Here to Bid I went to portrait painting last night and the model was very beautiful. I enjoy painting people and try to make the compo...

Click Here to see my new workshops We are almost at the middle of the year. So I would like to provide you my 2012 painting workshop schedul...

Click Here to Bid "I try to depict the lush foliage by delineating only three leaves". Did I use the two "D" words corre...

Click Here to Bid I feel happy about this one. In my standard, my art has been dwindling in a plateau stage for a long time. These a couple ...