qiang-huang, a daily painter

I did this head study last night with the Bee Cave Painters in south Austin. The organizer of this group is Eric Rhoads. Eric is well know...

Click Here to Bid Now I feel more comfortable with my accuracy of capturing the figure. So today I worked more on modeling. I am relat...

Click Here to Bid This is my second small figurative painting. I am still working on the fundamental work, which is the accuracy of the ...

Click Here to Bid I am entering a new genre: narrative figurative. It is much harder than still life paintings. To paint human form accu...

After seeing Fongwei off, I started my technical consulting week. My mode has been shifted to mathematics, but I still try my best to find...

After all artists started painting on the third day of Fongwei's workshop, I set up my easel at a spot nobody chosen. It was a very ch...

On the second day of Fongwei's workshop, one of the models didn't show up. So my son Jonathan came and modeled for the class. I di...

My friend Fongwei Liu came from California. He is teaching a figure workshop here in Austin. Song and I are busy assisting him taking car...

I did this 9" x 12" today. I am still in middle of a big effort of organizing my life. So my painting is in a not very consisten...

Figure painting is my final goal in my relatively new art career. As a matter of fact, I started painting about 15 years ago, my genre was...

Click Here to Bid Feels good doing small paintings again. This one is my warm up. I hope to keep the momentum (or mode) going for a whil...

For the second Demo as usual, I painted roses.  Rose is very hard to paint if you think you are painting roses. However, if you think you ...

Greeting from Atlanta, GA. I am teaching a workshop here. I want to thank Donna Thomas for organizing this wonderful workshop, and all the...

I did this head study last night. The model was a very beautiful high school junior. I had some hard time to get the shape of her face rig...

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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...