qiang-huang, a daily painter

I have finished this large (24" x 24") painting. I concentrated on the realistic presentation of the water lily pads and flower...

I went to the same location where I did my first painting in the Lake Brownwood Park. I was not completely happy about the colors I used ...

My 2nd plein air painting is the Recreation Hall in the park. It is ideal place for painting workshops. Well, now there is nobody here. I...

Over the weekend, our family camped at the Lake Brownwood State Park. I did 3 plein air paintings. This probably my very first plein air ...

I have not finished it yet, but I will be out of my studio for a few days, so I feel I should update you the status. I enjoy painting wat...

  Life goes on, painting goes on too. I started another painting yesterday. I loaded my ref photo with my app on an Android Pad (it is very ...

  I have finished the painting "ICU Heroes" I want to acknowledge Mr. Phillip Reese and "The Sacramento Bee" for the ref...

This is my second session on "ICU Heroes" I am using my "Color Picker" app (on my website) to identify my colors, and ma...

  I have decided to do an ICU painting, because I feel personally grateful to all the doctors, nurses, and other medical workers fighting Co...

  For a while, my mind has been on developing mathematic model for color systems. I did not paint much. This painting was on my easel for qu...

The "Color Mixing" class has gone through the evaluation successfully. Now it is truly online. You can take this class on the inte...

The 2nd part of "Rigorous Color System for Artists" online course: "Color Mixing" is ready for download and DVD purcha...

I have just finished this large painting. If you have seen my recent Youtube video on "how to use an app to painting", then you...

I made a Youtube video showing how to use an app to paint. Please click:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DlbvBt9ddE&t=26s  t...

I did a virtual demo on "Plein Air Live". The purpose of this demo was to show how I use a "Color Picker" app to guid...

In order to satisfy the request of artist friends who do not actively pursue the development of technology (I think they are smarter), ...

You probably have already known that I will do a demo for "Plein Air Live". The topic of my demo will be "landscape painti...

Finally, my online color course, Part 1, "Color Theory" is truly online now. I am using the online teaching platform "Udem...

I have been collaborating with two software engineers, and we have started to make APPs for artists. Please visit:  http://www.qh-art.com...

I am happy for being invited to demo for the "Plein Air Live" A Global Virtual Experience on July 15 - 18, 2020.  If you are ...

I am very happy to announce that my color course "Rigorous Color System for Artists" begins to get its fruition. The first clas...

These a couple of days, I was painting plein air in my backyard. Since the pandemic, it has become inconvenient to grocery shop, we decid...

I did a short demo painting yesterday. My son Jonathan has taped the process, and the demo will be used as a part of my online color cour...

Five years ago I visited San Miguel in Mexico. I took many photos and thought someday I will paint from some of them. Five years have pas...

I did this painting as a commissioned piece. It has quite amount of colors in it. I have practiced my computer aid color matching techniq...

Today, I came out of my color research and temporarily to the real world. I did this painting from a ref photo from the Monet's garde...

This is my 2nd try of the same painting. From the previous one, I have learned that I might have shift the reference photo too far to the...

I manipulated the color of a photo I took in Monet's Garden in France a couple of years ago. I want the scene has a dominant color to...

Click Here to Bid This is dangerous. Red and green are almost complimentary. It is rather difficult to harmonize these two colors toget...

Click Here to Bid Continuing on my color scheme research. Yellow and green can be analogous, but we need to be careful. When I paint th...