qiang-huang, a daily painter

  At this wonderful Thanksgiving time, I am very grateful that so many wonderful friends are supporting me, cheering up and encouraging me t...

  I have spent quite a few days to copy a painting from The Master Artist Richard Schmid. I admire this exceptional great artist, and learne...

  I will teach a 4-day in-person still life painting workshop at Sarasota Florida. If you are interested to know my painting approaches, thi...

  Recently, I have taught a plein air painting workshop in Tuscany Italy. I want to thank "Art Escape in Italy" and all the artist...

  I have not posted painting images on my blog and FB for a while. I am sorry. This is a small painting I did yesterday. 

  I would like to announce a new workshop I will teach soon: "Painterly Figurative". You probably have noticed that the workshops ...

  I have resumed my in-person workshop teaching. So far I have taught two. I am expecting a third one, which will be at Vinci, Italy. I am s...

  A quantitative color temperature scale has been developed and implemented on the updated “Painter’s Guide” app. This app is free for every...

  This is another color scheme study of the Monument Valley.

  I have taken many photos during our recent RV trip. This is my first studio painting based on one of the photos. The purpose of this paint...

  I have just finished a one-month long RV camping trip in Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. Now I am ready for work. I would like to announce th...

  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...