qiang-huang, a daily painter

  I am glad I have a few days between teaching, so I shifted to my study mode and tried something new. I have noticed so many artists start ...

  I am very excited to announce that Master artist Albert Handell will teach a 5-day workshop in Austin on January 21 to 25, 2025. Albert wi...

  I have just arrived home after a 47 days trip driving through 17 states in the south and east of US. I have had both good and bad days on ...

  This is the first painting I did during the Olmsted Invitational in Atlanta. Plein air painting means artists must face unexpected surpris...

  This is another demo I did in Jackson Mississippi. 

  I taught a workshop in Jackson MS recently. I want to thank Mary Alice Lee and Bob Tompkins for organizing this workshop. Thanks to all Mi...

  I am so happy to announce that Master artist Hsin-Yao Tseng will come to Austin again and teach a painting workshop in early December 2024...

  I am hosting an oil painting workshop for a Master artist Albert Handell in Austin, TX. Albert has done a wonderful demo today. I was amaz...

  I took Robert Moor's class at Scottsdale Artists' School. I have learned a lot. Mark making is so important to make a painting imp...

  I took a photo of an orange lit by a single light source, then measured 10 color samples from light to shadow using the "Color Analyz...

  The Master Artist Albert Handell will teach a 4-day oil painting workshop on March 19 - 22, 2024 near Austin, Texas. We still have a few o...

  Continuing on non-colored paintings. This time I worked on a floral project, cool light warm shadows. All those greys need to be harmoniou...

  Painting a landscape in a cloudy day, the sky light is pretty neutral (gray), but is the light warm or cool? To be honest with you, I was ...

  The warm and cool relationship is so important. I have done a few this kind of color less still life paintings. They really helped me to u...

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.