qiang-huang, a daily painter

I finally find it. This is the place I really want to paint. This place is called Wu-Zhen. It is about 100 Miles west of Shanghai. I want...

I am traveling again. I took a 5 hours super fast train ride today. Talking about the high speed trains, I must say that China is more adv...

Click Here to Bid This painting was done based on a photo I took in the Summer Palace. The design of the gate indicates that the owner ...

As I have mentioned before, I decided not to talk about "demons" in my life any more. However without my attention, it comes by...

I visited the Summer Palace in the winter. It is special treat. There were not many people, but many stray cats. In this quiet corner, in...

These several days, the air quality of Beijing has reached to the dangerous level. However, it didn't stop me going out (not very sma...

On last Thursday I started my painting workshop in Beijing. Artists are coming from France, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Columbia, Taiwan, ...

Click Here to Bid Having not painting still life for a while, but I need to prepare for my workshop tomorrow, so I did this small daily...

Click Here to Bid  I have spent more than two days on this painting. It is a little larger, and I used regular oil colors. After severa...

Click Here to Bid I thought I was a still life painter, but some how I can't stop painting Beijing cityscapes. It must be my childh...

Click Here to Bid Now I resume painting in Beijing. This painting took two sessions: majorly brush work on the first one, and palette k...

After another 24 hours train ride (really enjoyed). I am back to Beijing again. Yesterday in the subfreezing temperature, I went to the ol...

I went to Hong Kong a couple of days ago. Nowadays in China, I have experienced more capitalism than I was in the US. In almost all the co...

You may not know what I mean if you see the title of my today's post, but you must has seen some very cheap original oil paintings sel...

I was on my way to the railroad station, and I saw this special vehicle. I call it RV, but it is not relevant at all to what we call ...

Beijing is cold, very cold now (-15 C tonight). This photo was shot after the 2nd snow storm after I arrived here. I don't see any sn...

Click Here to Bid I want to thank all friends sending me emails and comments concerning my father's sickness and difficult situatio...

Click Here to Bid I have been back to China for about a week. I did not go anywhere since my father needs attention all the time. We ha...

Click Here to Bid Continuing on my Beijing cityscape experiment. I used a lot of knife work on this one. I kind of like this water base...

Click Here to Bid I have established a small painting station in my bedroom. Because there is no ventilation and I can not open the win...

It has been snowing during the night. I saw this scene in the morning. Beijing is a very busy big city, even in this cold snowy day. Car...

My previous blog post was misleading. I am so sorry. I am in China only temporarily. I did say "Goodbye America", but I didn...

This photo was taken at the beautiful Sedona. The last glimpse of the sun painted the majestic Cathedral rock with burning colors. I felt...

Now I have finished my very last workshop teaching of the year.  Under the crispy sun light, the red rock of Sedona reflects dazzling colo...

I want to thank Sedona Arts Center for organizing my workshop at this super beautiful place. I want to thank artist friends from all over ...

It is too too too beautiful, Sedona AZ. I arrived last night. I have gone anywhere. This photo was taken from my hotel room.

Another portrait study from my AAU time. This one is one of my favorites. Zhaoming mentioned in his class. Portrait painting is different ...

Finally, I finished my long term painting "Awakening". Since the painting is semi-dry, I can't get a good photo. I got a ...

I am still working on my long term painting, so I show another portrait study I did at AAU in the summer time.  It used two light sourc...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been working on a long term painting project. Instead of showing the final result only, I de...