qiang-huang, a daily painter

Click Here to Bid In my last post, I asked feedbacks on weather I am on the right direction. I got many responses. I really appreciate y...

Click Here to Bid This painting was based on a photo I shot at Wuzhen. The old houses had very delicately designed windows. With this pa...

Click Here to Bid I went to plein air painting again today with Plein Air Austin. This is a good practice on how to paint a wooden struc...

Click Here to Bid When I was in Beijing in January, I did 6 small paintings of my "On a Beijing Street" series. Yesterday I wa...

Click Here to Bid This painting is from a photo I took earlier in China. I saw many round doors like this, but this one I was tempted to...

Click Here to Bid This is my very first plein air painting of the year. Yesterday I joined Plein Air Austin and painted at Michaelis Far...

Click Here to Bid How to make gray color colorful and not muddy. Many master artists know how to do it, but many of them either can'...

Click Here to Bid Back for several days from workshop teaching, I have resumed my painting and learning. I was left at studying grey c...

This is the painting I did at the Putney Painters' event last Saturday. I don't know the name of the flower. I think they are lili...

I was so happy painting with Richard Schmid and a group of Putney painters Last Saturday. Richard and Nancy were in good spirit. The old r...

My workshop at Putney has ended. I had a group of very advanced artists. All of them had quite many years of painting experiences. Well, h...

This my first demo. I saw a few silver objects and they are so lovely to paint. Due to the time constrain, I didn't get chance to pain...

After some hiccups in the travel, I have arrived at the New England. Driving through Massachusetts in the peaceful dusk. I am in Putney Ve...

My workshop at Carmel ended today, and this is my second demo. I had a great time here. I really enjoyed painting this small brass clock. ...

Yesterday I arrived at Indianapolis. Today I started my workshop at Carmel, IN. I want to thank Kathleen O'Neil Stevens for organizing...

Click Here to Bid Coming back from New Braunfels. I was swamped into many chores and had to face some personal challenges. I didn't ...

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,...