qiang-huang, a daily painter

 I admit I don't have much of experience of painting this kind of white flowers, so I struggled, but I did enjoy playing with the gray c...

  This painting has been done from the same bouquet of flowers for my previous floral work. There has been 9 days in between. I am so amazed...

  My obsession of painting flowers continues. I feel they really manifest the true meaning of Life. Beauty, freedom, egoless, and being at t...

I named this painting: "Alive and Blooming". We are alive. We take this for granted until one day. Most people know it only theore...

  This one is a commissioned work for my friend Mary Alice. There is no cadmium colors in the painting. I am happy my painting momentum has ...

  I did this relative large painting a few days ago. As a matter of fact, I was not feeling well that day. Partially it was because I had so...

  You know I have painted a few small rose paintings recently. Now the Valentine's Day is approaching, I would like to sell those painti...

  Do you use solvent (or medium) in painting? I did, but I want to go solvent free as much as I can. I have put more info on my "Painti...

 I have just made a web page talking about the safety of oil painting. If you are interested to know how to identify the toxicity of pigment...

 I did this small water lilies study to investigate the non-toxic green color family. I want to get rid of cadmium green. It is not too hard...

  I have adequate amount of understanding (I think) about non-cadmium red color family, and also I get a little tired of painting individual...

  The red rose opens up more, so I did another study. I have put transparent orange into radiant red created a much warmer and lighter red. ...

  I don't paint many red roses, because they are so hard to do. Since I am working on my non-toxic red palette, I painted the today'...

  After having a set of non-toxic colors for the yellow family, I moved on to investigate the red. I did this study using radiant red, napth...

  I have recovered well from my surgeries and soon I will start to teach painting workshops. On April 26 - 29 I plan to teach a 4-day plein ...

 I feel satisfied with the rose study I did today. The paint opacity finally worked effectively. I did not use the water mixable oil today. ...

This painting took me more than a month to do. It was started around last Thanksgiving, and finished after last Christmas. So many things ha...

  First, I want to thank all the friends who commented on my posts and provided me tips of using water mixable oil (WMO) paints and developi...

  I used the same palette I used two days ago, but introduced in Portland Gray Deep, and Transparent Orange. The opacity is still not ideal....

  I have done another rose study today, I used ultramarine + burnt sienna (water mixable) for the dark under painting, then used paper towel...

  I have started painting again. I did this small study yesterday. I am experimenting the water mixable oil. I used ultramarine and burn sie...

It has been more than a month I have not posted any painting image on the Internet. You probably wonder what has been going on with my art. ...

  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...