qiang-huang, a daily painter

I am so excited to be an official faculty member of the 2016 Plein Air Convention & Expo - #PACE16 in Tucson April 15-19. This is the...

Click Here to Bid I have been painting at the same place again and again. I don't know why I am doing this exactly. It maybe because...

Click Here to Bid Another plein air at the same park, but at a different location. The new limited palette works very well. The painting...

Click Here to Bid I went to the same place again, and did my third plein air. I feel I really need to do several paintings at the same ...

Click Here to Bid I did the second plein air painting at the exactly same location. I wanted to practice with this new limited palette m...

Click Here to Bid I went to plein air painting by myself yesterday. It is also my first non-demo painting. When I am not teaching, I shi...

Click here to purchase The Third Demo I picked a theme: Mardi Gras. The local artists brought items related to Mardi Gras and I formed ...

This is my second demo. Felt a little empty on the right hand side. So I put my linseed oil bottle there to balance out. I spent quite am...

Click here for purchasing info. I just came back from Houma Louisiana. I really enjoyed the Cajun country. I want to thank the Terrebon...

So many of my workshop students have asked if I had an instructional DVD available that I decided to go ahead and create one. This is the...

The last day of the workshop, I did this monochromatic doorway from one of my photos I took in China. I used only black white and transpa...

The third demo is about flowers. I painted a few roses as usual. I always feel the leaves is harder than the flowers. I still need more p...

The second demo was about the glass and metal. They are quite mysterious. Majorly I worked only on the edges and highlights. The solidity...

I can't believe that the year of 2015 is gone and 2016 is right here. I have started my first workshop teaching right here at home. F...

Happy Holidays to all my art friends. I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Meanwhile I would like to announce ...

The last demo I did on the workshop is different. I told the class that they would set up the still life for me, and I would take the cha...

The third demo is about flowers. You know sometime when I paint, I have this odd feeling. We use all of those pretty bad stuff, such as c...

This is my second demo at Ada. It is rather mechanical and engineering looking. That was my intention as a matter of fact. On my workshop...

Left Dallas, I drove another 3 hours and arrived at Ada, Oklahoma. Yesterday I have started my last workshop of the year (No. 22) at th...

I want to thank all the friends who commented on my yesterday's post. You encourage me to keep on going on my art journey. Today'...

This is my second demo. It is a rather good one. The roses are beautiful and the metals are vivid. However, I don't really feel satis...

I am on the road again. This time is in Dallas, not too far from home. I want to thank Associated Creative Artists for organizing this wor...

I have been composing a piece of visual music on this canvas. So I name this painting "Spatial Melody". You might be curious wh...

I feel happy about what I did today. I have been doing research on monochromatic painting for a while. The advantage of monochrome is auto...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.  Recall all the milestones on my journey, I am extremely humbled and in gratitude to all the support I ...

Click Here to Purchase Now my workshop teaching in November has ended. I am back in Austin now. This painting was my last demo at Chesap...

The third demo was floral as usual, but the unusual this time was that I turned off the artificial light and use the pure north light as t...

This is my second demo. I like this grey colored urn. Many years ago when I studied with David Leffel, I really like the urns and vases h...

I have arrived at Washington DC area a few days ago. My workshop at Chesapeake Fine Art Studio today. I want thank Hai-Ou Ho for organizi...

I usually paint my still life painting without setting up a theme for it. However this time happens to be one of the artists in the works...