qiang-huang, a daily painter

The second demo I did was with a black velvet as the background. I painted it completely black using transparent oxide red plus ultramarin...

After a few days of working on web design and got my Plein Air painting in China trip launched, I have arrived at New Braunfels, TX yester...

If you have followed my blog posts lately, you may have known that I visited a few water towns when I was in China about a month ago. Now...

Click Here to Bid I have this glazed pot for a long time, but this is the first time I painted it. For some reason I always think this p...

Click Here to Bid I did this painting with my fragmented time for several days. I took the photo in a place called Zhouzhuang near Shang...

I went the "Bee Cave Painter" group and did this head study. Having not painted portrait for a while, I felt a little rusty. I ...

Click Here to Bid This painting took me two days to finish. It is from a photo I took at Wuzhen, China. I feel more control on my grays ...

Click Here to Bid I usually do not paint only metal. I like to use metal as background to support fruit or flowers as the center of focu...

Click Here to Bid "Apple and Orange", what a boring name it is. But it is the most genuine, most sincere, and most I have pain...

I have come back from my North Carolina trip. This is my second demo at Kinston. The flowers are camellia. I slept whole day yesterday a...

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...