qiang-huang, a daily painter

  Life gradually moves back to normal. I am preparing to travel again. My first in-person workshop will be in Salt Lake City on June 25. Thi...

  Can you believe I never painted snow before. That is true. Well, not any more. I painted this one after I returned from my plein air campi...

Painting plein air at the International Waterlily Garden at San Angelo with my friend Kyle Ma.   

  I went camping again. The location was San Angelo State Park. The cactus were blooming. It is not surprising seeing cactus of course, I ha...

  I will teach a Zoom workshop about still life painting in June. This workshop will have 2 group meetings, I will share my approaches via p...

  This is my very first sunset painting. Be honest with you, it was one of the easiest paintings I have ever done. Thursday afternoon was pe...

  We went camping for 3 days at the Lake Somerville State Park. I did a few plein air paintings. You know I seldom do pure nature landscapes...

  This is my demo painting I did two days ago for my One-Day Zoom Workshop. It was another successful one. The feedbacks from my 3 Zoom work...

  How do you manage your colors to show something looks solid? How do you use color relativity to reveal subtle changes of the local color v...

  The image showing here is a demo painting I did for my 2nd Zoom Workshop I am still conducting. Now I have gone through the necessary lear...

  This small house is a replica of Henry David Thoreau's house at the historical museum in Concord MA. I have read Thoreau's "W...

  We have just lost I considered the BEST representational artist in the world: Richard Schmid. He was one of the kindest and generous teach...

  Two days ago, I have got my second vaccination shot.  I think I am ready to resume the normal life. I have updated my domestic workshop sc...

  Painting green is a challenge. I picked a photo that show all kinds of greens: the house with a green roof, The trees with fresh green lea...

  From my limited experiences of organizing Zoom workshops, I have learned that the demand of online art learning is much larger than I thou...

It has been too long. We all look forward the Covid 19 pandemic coming to the end, and we can travel and enjoy the activities we used to hav...

  This is so far the largest demo painting I have ever done live in front of my students. The size is 18" x 24". The painting was ...

  I plan to teach my 2nd Zoom workshop in April. This one will take two weeks, from April 19 (Monday) to April 30 (Friday). I will cover the...

 My very first Zoom workshop started yesterday. This is the demo painting (well, I did some finish touches offline). I consider this worksho...

  My "Color Relativity" course is on Udemy now. The video can be viewed online without the need of downloading the file to your co...

  I painted a small study today. The purpose of this study is to investigate the chroma of the color green. Human eyes are very sensitive to...

  I am very excited and happy to announce: I am ready to teach a painting workshop on Zoom. The title of the workshop will be "Studio O...

  I have finished this painting. What I have learned from this project was how to control the chroma of the color. Any color has 3 attribute...

  It has been about 20 days since my last post, and 35 days since my previous painting. Too much is going on. I watched too much TV. Now we ...

  Happy New Year! My new year resolution for 2021 is "To serve more". We have gone through a very difficult 2020. We have been act...

  I did another zoom demo on Monday (Dec 14). This demo was organized by the Working Artists Forum in Easton MD. Since this demo was for a s...

  I have been slowing down and not posting paintings actively. Even the posted painting today was done about a month ago. The reason is simp...

 This is a small painting I did in November. Although it is small, I have spent quite a few days to finish it. I have found recently that my...

 Simply remind you that the 2021 painting calendar sale (20% off) will end tonight at midnight. Please visit:  http://www.qh-art.com/calenda...

  I have made a 2021 desk calendar with 13 of my painting images. You may view all the calendar images at  http://www.qh-art.com/calendar-20...