qiang-huang, a daily painter

Hello from the beautiful Whidbey Island, WA. I just arrived in Seattle a few hours ago. Starting from morning, my iPhone has been beeping ...

Click Here to Bid For doing the second orchid study, I have gained more confidence and freedom. I find the rubber tipped paint wipe off ...

Click Here to Bid For doing a still life painting, the natural north light is the best light source. When so many artists building their...

Click Here to Bid I went out and painted with Plein Air Austin yesterday in the morning. The place was very beautiful. The meadow was fu...

Click Here to Bid I went to portrait painting last night, and did this head study. This week I am busy doing my technical consulting wor...

I attended the reception and award ceremony of the 22nd OPA National Exhibition at the InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX. It was a gre...

Click Here to Bid I am wandering out my comfort zone of still life painting for a while now. I touched many new things and found they ar...

Click Here to Bid This is a good exercise. Painting Abundance has been always a challenge to me. You might have remembered my exercise o...

Click Here to Bid You may have felt tired of my gray building landscape paintings. So I decided to do something else. I want to paint sm...

Click Here to Bid I have been called for some technical consulting by the engineering company. Feeling like a dream, but I am back into ...

Click Here to Bid My gray colors are getting cleaner now. I even understood more today. My rule of thumb presented last time applies onl...

Click Here to Bid I went to plein air painting with a group of local artists this morning. It was heavily clouded at the verge  of driz...

Click Here to Bid After came back to Austin, I immediately resume my study on gray colors in landscape painting. This is  a very high ke...

My workshop at Albuquerque ended today, and this is my second demo. I hope all the workshop artists can practice what we have talked about...

I have arrived at Albuquerque, NM yesterday. My workshop is at New Mexico Art League. I want to thank NMAL for organizing and all the arti...

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...