qiang-huang, a daily painter

Click Here to Bid The character in my today's painting means "flower". It is in the "Cao" style of the calligrap...

Click Here to Bid I keep exploring the ways to involve the Chinese characters into my still life more naturally. Using a plate is not a ...

Click Here to Bid Today I am working on a figurative project, one of those requires many days to finish. I think Zhaoming at AAU has ope...

Click Here to Bid You have witnessed the evolution of my still life painting with Chinese characters. I feel satisfied with my today...

Click Here to Bid The character in my today's painting means "Shadow". I enjoyed painting the circular shadow casted on th...

Click Here to Bid I kind of like my recent still life by adding a Chinese character. So I want to explore this approach even more. The c...

Click Here to Bid My AAU training is over, but I don't want my painting figure and portrait to cool down. I got my first opportunity...

Click Here to Bid I have been back to Austin for several days. Two months of AAU and life in San Francisco have enriched my artistic ide...

Today I want share a photo of me painting at the Fine Art Studio of AAU, and document this extremely significant summer. The photo was tak...

Today is my last day at AAU. The summer semester is over. I have learned a lot from Zhaoming in this short seven and half weeks. I really ...

It was Day 4 on this painting. I did the hand pretty much from my imagination, and spent sometime on the background and the drapery. I don...

I never thought that painting a large painting takes so much time and energy. I am still moving but very tired. I want to apologize to man...

This is my 3rd day on this figure painting from life. I did more colors and details, but I don't see much of progress. I have two more...

Time flies! One and half week from now, I will end my AAU journey for this summer. For the Figure class, I need to do my final project. Th...

The second day on this major painting project, I started modeling the figure. I tried my best not to get trapped in details so I have the ...

I am back to SF this morning around 1:00 AM. After a short sleep I went to my figure class. I started a new painting. This one is 30"...

This is my second demo painting. Painting flowers is my main scheme for this demo, but I really like the rusty pot I did. Newport is very ...

Yesterday I have arrived at the beautiful Newport, Rhode Island, and I have started my second workshop in New England this morning. The wo...

I did an additional demo to the workshop today. Upon request, I did this portrait from a photo I took a while ago in Austin. I don't h...

This is the second demo I did. It is the first time I painted gold. I consider to name this painting "Gold and Time". I am reall...

My life is so dramatic. I was just settled at the coast of the Pacific, but now I at coast of Atlantic. Today is the first day of teaching...

Shhhhhhhh! Please do not tell Zhaoming and AAU that I am running away from school. In a couple of hours I will be on the plane to the east...

On the third day of this figure painting, I worked on the edges and color. Zhaoming talked about skin tones. If you want to make her compl...

Click Here to Bid After I finished my figure homework yesterday, I still have some time. So I did this small still life. Oh boy! from a ...

This is the 5th day I have worked on this 24" x 36". I got pretty sick of it now. My hand and mind are all being tied up. The pr...

Today, I worked on this figure painting from life. It is the second day on this one. I don't have enough experience of doing a paintin...

I did this head study from a photo I took today. Quite a few friends commented that I should talk more detail what I have learned at AAU...

Today, I have started a new figure painting. It will take 3 days to finish. This image shows what I got so far. The color of painting beco...

I have been working on this painting whole day yesterday. It wasn't as smooth as the first day. I spent many hours on the leg in the f...

Click Here to Bid Seeing so many figures and portraits I did at AAU, I don't know if you miss my small daily still lives. But I do. ...