qiang-huang, a daily painter

Click Here to Bid I have been doing a serious study on color harmony for a week. It is one of most important topic in graphic design. In...

Click Here to Bid I am painting again. The time between this one and my last painting was about a week, so I am not qualified as an dail...

I did two children's art classes yesterday. This image is a drawing done by my son Jonathan (15 years old). Since my post of last week...

Click Here to Bid This week I was called back by my previous engineering company to work on a technical project. So I tried the old rout...

I don't have a painting to show you, but I want to share what I am doing for this a couple of days. I have not mentioned much in my bl...

Finally the Texas heat is coming down. The cool autumn is coming. I will be busy teaching in this beautiful season. I have arranged quite ...

The workshop at Jacksonville is over now, and I am on my way back to Austin. I feel so blessed, and very grateful to so many people suppor...

I am in Jacksonville FL now. This is what I did yesterday on my workshop. I want to thank Eileen Corse for putting this workshop together,...

It looks that my calligraphy/stilllife painting works well in small format (5x7). Now I want paint a little larger. I did this 9x12 yester...

After my last post, I have received quite a few friends' comments and emails. Thank you so much. Your words warm my heart. AAU and fig...

I have not painted for several days. To keep my blog going, I post a painting I did before. This head study I did at AAU. All my AAU paint...

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...