qiang-huang, a daily painter

Click Here to Purchase I stayed one additional day at Cary. A group artists got together and painted. I decided to do a high key floral....

This one is rather classical. I spent a long time developing the silver tea pot. I have enjoyed the details in this painting. I am honor...

I don't know what those flowers are called and have no idea how to paint them. But they are in my setup. Go ahead and do it. Putting ...

I am traveling again. This painting is my first demonstration on the workshop at Cary, NC. I want to thank Waverly Artist Group and Monic...

Click Here to Purchase There is a very old house not far from where I live. I did this plein air painting yesterday there. I must confes...

Click Here to Purchase This a couple of days in Austin, the weather is beautiful. I went to plein air painting yesterday, and this is wh...

I followed Richard Schmid's approach and did this painting. For a few years, I have tried many times painting high key, but for a long...

Do you still remember this painting? I have mentioned that I was in the "mid painting crisis". So I put it aside and got busy of...

My workshop in Austin was a 4-day one. On the last day, I went beyond the still life painting and did this landscape. This one was based o...

The third demo deals with flowers. Flowers cannot be copied, and they do not have too much room for correction either if you make mistakes...

This is my second demo, which I showed my step-by-step approach. Students followed me closely. This way of teaching has been proved to be...

My first workshop of the year started today. It is right at my door step. I want to thank Jane Frederick and my wife Song for putting thi...

Everybody have heard something called "mid life crisis", but has anybody heard about "mid painting crisis". The answer...

In the second day, this painting has entered the color stage. I have the warm-light-cool-shadow situation. The colors were applied abstra...

I started my first painting in 2015 on Jan 2. This is a 16" x 20", a landscape based on a photo I took two years ago in Beijing...

This is the last painting of the year. It took me 3 days. I feel happy about this one. The abstract shapes in the lower left corner and t...

Click Here to Purchase Back home late at the Christmas night, I did this painting in the morning of 12/26. Every time I came home from...

Merry Christmas to all of you. I want to thank you so much for giving me so much support. I wish you happy and joy at this holiday season.

These a few days I have been wandering in multiple National Parks in Arizona and Utah. Besides in awe about the beauty of nature, I am po...

Song is doing her usual yoga exercise in an unusual place.

This is my 2nd demo painting at Sedona. After the workshop, my family and I are taking a vocation. We have visited the Grand Canyon, Mon...

Time goes by so fast. I came to Sedona teaching a workshop. Today the workshop is already over. I want to thank Sedona Arts Center of orga...

I did two paintings between my workshop teaching trips in December. This is one of them. When the time is fragmented, and too much going o...

I have not painted peony until this one. I confronted my challenge in front of a group of enthusiastic artists. These flowers were overwhe...

This is my second demonstration at Coppini. I have another news to share with all of you: the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio has acce...

This is my demo number one at my San Antonio workshop. I want to thank Coppini Academy of Fine Arts for organizing this workshop, and than...

The experiment keeps on going. The journey is far, the time is running out, I am slow moving. I know I shouldn't be so ambitious, b...

Click Here to Purchase I did this painting last week. There are too much things going on so I did not get a chance to post it timely. It...

Click Here to Preview and Purchase Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. My 2015 painting calendar is ready. Please preview the images and p...

Click Here to Purchase You can see I am practicing the design of my brush work. This is the third painting in this series. Painterly p...