qiang-huang, a daily painter

I want to use this opportunity to introduce a very special workshop I will provide in 2019. Master artist Jove Wang will come to Austin ag...

It was an honor to participate the Plein Air Easton competition the 2nd time. This is a painting I did in the rain in down town Easton. I...

I have spent longer time on this demo painting, so I get additional details on the metal pot. I really like the texture.

Texas has been getting too hot. So I went Vermont. This is 1st demo at Landgrove, VT.

Yes, that red rock is in Sedona AZ, but I like to use it to announce my plein air painting workshop in Austin this fall. Texas summer is ...

Nowadays, there are too much going on. We are information overloaded. We are over too busy. I felt I am a machine. Doing one thing after ...

When I post my painting, I write spontaneously what is in my mind. However recently my mind is blank. I feel I start to have Alzheimer...

Life keeps  on going. I still have paintings to post. This is my second demo in Austin.

Click Here for Purchase Info Back to my usual mode of teaching. This is my first demonstration on my Austin workshop. Low key, and brig...

Click Here for Purchase Info I am happy to see my color scheme change in paintings. I use to use value dominantly to create the drama f...

Click Here for Purchase Info This one is harmonized to yellow.

Click Here for Purchase Info This one I harmonize the color to blue.

Click Here for Purchase Info The reason I painted this one is that I want to explore the world of color in a sense of design. I deliber...

I sent this painting to this year's Oil Painters of America National Exhibition. I am very happy to know that this painting has been ...

I am very happy to announce another invited artist workshop. In early December, Hsin-Yao Tseng will come to Austin and teach a 3-Day portr...

After my workshop in Paris, I did another one in Tuscany Italy. The scenery in Tuscany is absolutely beautiful. These are two demo pai...

I have arrived at Paris a few days. Today is the third day of my Paris workshop. Here are the 3 demo I have done so far. The group ...

Click Here for Purchase Info This is my second demo at Scottsdale Artist School.

Click Here for Purchase Info This is my 4th time teaching at Scottsdale Artists' School. I had relative large class of 17 people. T...

Putting figures into a landscape painting is exciting, but I have not done this much. This demo painting was done with a photo I took a c...

The perspective of this canoe is rather challenge, but I have really enjoyed the graceful curves.

I love to paint buildings, you know that. This is a black smith's shop in Louisiana. I took a photo, and did this painting reference ...

I would like to announce my painting workshops in Austin for 2018. I will teach a 4-day still life workshop on June 20 - 23, and a landsc...

This is another palm tree demo. I did this at Ponte Vedra Beach Florida. Thanks to so many friends responded to my last post. I underst...

When I was at Ft Lauderdale, it was just after the Parkland high school shooting. It was about 20 mi away from where I teach. I just simp...

I painted this demo from a photo I took at Xidi China. The photo showed a very busy scene, I simplified it significantly. The painting ha...

In February, I taught two landscape workshops. Compared with my still life painting, my landscapes still need more development. I am lear...

I feel I am slowing down quite a bit in everything. I am still posting paintings I did two months ago. In this modern life, we are much b...

Click Here to Bid I did a small daily painting yesterday. Life is cyclic. My art career started with doing small paintings daily. Then ...

I want to tell you a funny story. I am preparing for my trip to Europe, and I want to check where we will go. It happens to be the day th...