qiang-huang, a daily painter

It was a super beautiful day today.  I was in the mode of partying. Song and I went to Pease Part near the downtown Austin. Every year at ...

A group of Song's friends came to my studio yesterday. I did this demo to them. Recently, I really like the word "mode". T...

I copied another Ernest Watson's drawing today. It is a good way to learn. I will keep doing this kind of exercise until I feel satisf...

Click Here to Bid I can't believe I didn't paint any small painting for 24 days. If you follow me on this blog, you know what I ...

Started with my tiny drawing yesterday, I have been possessed by my pencils. This one is a copy from the  book "The Art of Pencil Dra...

Today I had a desire of doing a super large painting (30"x 40" in my mind), but I ended up doing a tiny pencil sketch. This one ...

Yesterday was an ideal day for me. I spent about 11 hours painting. I rarely have this kind of opportunities. This painting is quite a cha...

The second demo I did at Wenmohs Ranch was a real enjoyment to me. It is the first time I painted Oleander and I immediately fell in love ...

This a couple of days, I am at the beautiful Texas Hill Country teaching a workshop. I want to thank Dena Wenmohs for organizing this work...

This is old painting I did last July in Putney Vermont. Master artist Richard Schmid set up a massive flower still life. He did a magnific...

When I was in Albany, I did an additional demo open to all artists and art lovers in the area. It was a big turn out. I hope everybody was...

This is my second demo at Albany. I had some difficulties to make the white rose make sense, but I like the colors I put on it. Came bac...

Driving across the Green Mountain in light snow, I have arrived at Albany New York yesterday. Today is my first day of my workshop here. I...

Yesterday was the Putney painters' paint-out day. Quite a few of them showed up. I am honored to paint with them. I have spent a long ...

The second demo I did was a high key one. It gave me a lot of color opportunity. I kept the pewter kettle in the back in a very unfinished...

I am in Putney VT teaching a workshop. I want thank Penelope and John for their warm hospitality and wonderful job of hosting this worksho...

Click Here to Bid I laughed when I read my own post I did two days ago. I was trying to say that I did a wash with “burnt umber and a lo...

Click Here to Bid This painting was my test of opacity over transparency. My background was a transparent wash with burnt umber and lot ...

Click Here to Bid With my recent small painting exercises, I have been trying to involve objects I have not painted or not often eno...

Click Here to Bid Coming back to my small painting study, I recall I was working on the color of green. People who have taken my worksho...

It has been almost a week I didn't post anything on my blog. I was busy helping Colley Whisson who was teaching a workshop here. The w...

Click Here to Bid This is my first portrait painting this year. It is 9" x 12". I offer much lower starting price for it than ...

Click Here to Bid The bronze horse is a replica of the well known Han Dynasty statue "Horse stepping on a swallow". The origin...

Click Here to Bid Painting this small painting, I was really paying attention to the color harmony. I was using a halogen light  for ill...

Click Here to Bid I have restarted my small daily painting again. recalling what I did before my Melbourne workshop, I was working on hi...

This is the second demo I did at Melbourne. I got looser, maybe too loose. Now I am back to Austin confronting new challenges. These a c...

My 3-day workshop at Melbourne FL just completed today. I want to thank Carmen Beecher for organizing this one. I felt so wonderful coming...

Click Here to Bid I did this small painting last night. Right before I was on my way to the airport, I snapped a photo in a rush. This i...

Several days ago, I thought I should do a painting for this year's OPA show. I got on my calendar trying to make a plan, but to my sur...

Click Here to Bid It is my first time painting a bunch of bananas. I don't know why I didn't paint bananas before. Perhaps I was...