qiang-huang, a daily painter

The World can move to whatever directions, but we just simply paint. Among all the bad news we got lately, I received one piece of good n...

I have been working on this painting for past three days. I will call it done now. Life is so vulnerable in front of this horrible diseas...

The Novel Coronavirus has devastated my home country, and been threatening the whole world. So far my mother is doing fine in Beijing. Be...

Normally, now is the time for me to announce my annual Plein Air Painting Trip in China, but unfortunately I have to cancel my China Trip...

I am painting in my studio, and I decided to do some color experiments. This is what I did today. I used two light sources, one cool and ...

From March 14 to 16 I will teach a 3-day still life workshop in Sacramento California. We still have a few openings. Please check:  https...

I did two still life demos and two landscape demos on my recent Charleston workshop. This is my first landscape demo, painted from a refe...

I will teach a 4-day painting workshop, 2-day still life and 2-day landscape, at Paso Robles California on March 9 - 12. Please contact S...

Red roses in my 2nd demo painting.

I have started my 3rd workshop of the year. I am in Charleston SC. I put vegetables in my first demo.

Continuing my water lily painting endeavor. This one is from a photo I took in Monet's Garden in Giverny France. I almost completely ...

Of course my last demo was floral. All the students brought flowers to the class in the morning. I have 15 people in my workshop, so we g...

The workshop in Little Rock went well. This is my second demo. I have some free time today and I will tour this beautiful city. Excited.

I am in Little Rock Arkansas teaching a still life workshop. I want to thank all the artists for taking this class. This is my first day ...

We think time is linear. It comes from past and gets to now, then goes to the future, but why the instrument which measures time is alway...

I had some odd feeling lately (well, maybe you felt the same but not odd any more). My college attending son came back home for the holid...

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year, all the holidays and festivities have passed like a mirage. Before we know it, we are i...

"Why do you want to paint?" This is the question I have been asking myself for a quite long time, but I still have no good answ...

Again, we will organize another China painting trip in September 2020. Our Beijing office and myself is busy arranging the China 2020 pai...

I started painting again. I know some artists who paint same type of paintings for a quite long time before shift to another topic. I thi...

I have got many comments after my previous post. I apologize I was not clear: OG stands for "Off-the-Grid". My structure is loc...

After my final workshop was done before Thanksgiving. I have decided not to paint for a month. I spent almost all my time in upgrading my...

Flowers and more flowers. This is my final demo painting in Gainesville. I am in the mood of celebration. I have made another great year ...

My final workshop teaching of the year was at Gainesville GA. Having done so many landscape paintings, it felt really good when I was pai...

Happy Holidays my artist friends. The last month of the year 2019 has arrived. I am glad I finally have some down time. I am not ...

After En Plein Air Texas, I really feel good about painting water lilies. I want to paint more of this topic. Maybe doing a few large one...

Happy Thanksgiving my artist friends. I feel so grateful to all of you for your support and encouragement to me during this hectic 2019. ...

This small house is at Easton, MD. I took a photo of it when I was there for the Plein Air Easton Festival. It was a good example of 2-po...

I taught a "landscape painting from photo" workshop in Huntsville AL recently, and this image shows my first day demo. The work...

I was completely lost when I entered our "Quick Draw" competition location. The roping contest was going white hot. Cowboys and...