qiang-huang, a daily painter

These two sketches I did plein air at a park in Beijing call "Zi-Zhu-Yuan" (the Purple Bamboo Garden). Now I felt more comforta...

After the painting trip. I have been staying with my mother. After my father passed away in June, she has lived alone by herse...

Our Plein Air Painting in China trip has ended on September 20. I hope everybody have a safe trip back home. This photo shows the entire ...

This is our team members daring crossing a Beijing street. I don't think in China there is such a thing called Jaywalking. Road cros...

We visited the Forbidden City and ran into these two lovely ladies in beautiful dresses of the former Qing Dynasty. I think this photo wil...

We have arrived at Beijing. It was a great challenge and test to our physical condition, and we appreciate more to the peo...

  On the cruise ship from Guilin to Yangshuo, I spotted this old fisherman in the Li River.

On our way to an old village, we got lost. I decided letting everybody get off the bus and give some time for the driver to figure out ho...

After a significant delay due to a heavy thunder storm in Shanghai, we arrived at Guilin almost 3:00 AM in the morning. Now we are in So...

Zhouzhuang is incredibly beautiful. This is one of my photos. I am speechless here.   I wish I can stay for more days.

We are in Zhouzhang for 3 days now. Every angle you will see a good painting. It has been very hot and humid here, but everybody we...

All together our plein air painting in China team have 15 people coming from Australia, the Philippines, and the USA (Alabam...

I have arrived at Shanghai yesterday afternoon. The hotel is wonderful and the food is excellent. Due to the jet lag (11 hours time dif...

Click Here to Bid This is the last painting I post before I get on my international flight for China. I did it with my Austin group. I k...

This period of study will end soon. I try my best to learn more with every minute I have. This is my third effort of studying Tibor Nagy...

Click Here to Buy I did this painting as a demo for my Austin mentor group. I also took a set of photos to show a step by step painting ...

Click Here to Bid Today is a very special day to our family. Our son Jonathan has started his college life. Song and I know that we will...

Click Here to Bid It has been a year since I stayed in San Francisco attending AAU. That time my dorm was in downtown near the Union Sq...

Many artist friends subscribe my painting emails. It has been working pretty well since I established this function when I started my blog i...

Click Here to Buy I painted this painting this morning with a group of artists I am mentoring in Austin. One of students is passionately...

Click Here to Buy This is another large painting on a small painting surface. My experiments have gained more momentum. I have spent qui...

Click Here to Bid This is a large painting, 30" x 40". I spent a week to do it. No, I am just kidding. This one is only 5...

Click Here to Bid Now is my experiment time again. This is a small study I did from a photo I took in China. It is a small village calle...

This is my flower demo at Granbury. You may see the composition of this painting is almost the same as the one I did at Landgrove, Vermont...

I used my second demo as a step-by-step guidance. So I selected relatively simple objects. I added leaves at the last moment using knife w...

This is the first demo at the Granbury workshop. I specifically like the mysteries  of this one. I did not use much of high chroma colors ...

Arrived at Austin around 1:00 AM. I had a few hours sleep, then jumped into my car. Driving about 4 hours, I have arrived at Granbury Texa...

For every workshop, I must painting some flowers. So this is my third demo at Landgrove Vermont. In addition, I really enjoyed painting th...

Now this is the second demo. I guided the students by dividing my painting process into several stages. Everybody has been enjoy this appr...

I usually do my demos with the objects I am familiar with. However when I saw this old scale in the dining room of the Landgrove Inn, I ju...