qiang-huang, a daily painter

Two engineers and I have developed an image filter called "Warm-n-Cool". It can remove the influence of local colors and show the ...

  I am getting busy again. I will teach a 4-day still life painting workshop at the Scottsdale Artists' School on February 12 - 15, 2024...

  Life is short. How can we become good in painting QUICKLY? We all know we need to practice, but to accelerate the progress, my secret is: ...

  Master artist Hsin-Yao Tseng did a cityscape workshop here in Austin last November. I did this painting by using one of his reference phot...

  At this New Year time, I want to announce a new event in 2024. Artist Suzanne Dougherty and I have organized a Painting Retreat in Sicily,...

  This is another painting I did during the holiday down-time. I followed patiently the steps of the painting wanted to take. No matter how ...

  I hope all of you are enjoying this holiday season. Time flies. Soon the brand new 2024 will come. We all try to set up new goals at this ...

  I have been enjoying my holiday down-time for about a month now. I have done 4 paintings so far. I used to paint alla prima and try not to...

  Having done the "white on white" and "black on black" still lives, I decided to combine white, black and gray objects ...

  I have shown my "white object on white background" experiment two days ago, and this image is my "black object on black bac...

  I like this holiday season. I finally can paint without any business motivations. I submerged myself into the color study again. The image...

  It is the holiday season now. As usual, I have made a desk calendar for the coming 2024. Please visit my website: www.qhart.com then click...

  For this year's EPAT, I set a theme for myself: I want to paint nonstructural organic forms. This is a way of saving time because I do...

  Another plein air piece during EPAT. It was raining and windy, but I had a blast.

  The judge for this year's EPAT is an art historian. He made a comment I really like. I don't remember exactly his words, but it wa...

  EPAT has ended. I did 9 paintings. Texas has been dry, buy when we set up our easels, the rain comes right away. 

  What is my motivation of doing art? At the beginning, I just think about myself. Having found that I have the above average ability to cre...

  I bought some pink roses from a local grocery store. They looked OK when I got them, but they all wilted within 24 hours. I managed to do ...

 I just came back for a one month visit of Taiwan and the mainland China. The upper image is the city of Xiamen in Fujian Province and the o...

  Dear Artist Friends, I just want to remind you that Master artist Hsin-Yao Tseng will come to Austin and conduct a 4-day cityscape paintin...

  I did this one in 2014, and it makes me feel nostalgic of the time when my art was young. We are surviving through the super hot summer in...

  This is my demo on my figure painting workshop in Cloudcroft NM. This was my very first teaching figurative art. You know I don't do f...

  This is another rainy plein air painting at PAE.

This is my quick draw painting at PAE. It earned me the 3rd place award. It seems I felt the energy of photons bombarded on the morning flow...

  This is another plein air painting I did at PAE. 

  Plein air Easton has just ended. This is one of paintings I did. Painting in the rain was fun.

  The last demo on my SLC workshop. Again, I had a quite amount of touch-ups on it. I have painted this painting before, a few times, but I ...

  I will teach a 3-day figurative painting workshop at the Fine Art Museum of Huntsville, Alabama. I will share with you my approaches to su...

  The 2nd demo at SLC. I have worked more on it. I only have about 2 hours of demo time each day on a workshop. It is rather difficult to ta...

  I just came back from teaching a workshop at Salt Lake City. This was my 1st demo. I have touched up some today to bring the demo painting...