qiang-huang, a daily painter

A couple of hours drive brought me from Cary to Kinston. I want thank Kinston Community Council for the Arts for organizing this worksh...

As usual, my second demo was about flowers. Also I did this one with a high key scheme. I demonstrated this painting on a Ampersand Gessob...

I am traveling again. Now I am at Cary North Carolina teaching a workshop. I want to thank Monica and Waverly Gallery for organizing and B...

Click Here to Bid This is my first painting after I return to the US. It is based on a photo I took at Wuzhen China. In this water town,...

Tears were in my eyes when I left my parents in Beijing. Holding my father's skinny hands and looking at his misshaped face, both of u...

I have spent more than two months in China. Tomorrow I will be on my way back to the United States. It has been a very significant trip....

Here in Beijing is the second day of the Chinese New Year holiday. These a couple of days I didn't do anything except giving company ...

This painting was the third demo in my Beijing workshop. I should have posted it two weeks ago, but as usual I am behind on many things. ...

Time: May 2 - 5, 2013 Locations: QH Art Studio, Leander Texas (near Austin) Tuition: $530 Contact: Yuehong Song f...

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...