Click Here to BidWe have an orange tree in the front yard. My son, Jonathan, picked one with leaves on it. I did many orange paintings, but I really like this one because the leaves provide more shape variation. After I talked in my blog about studying with Sherrie McGraw. I received quite a few emails and comments asking about what I really learned from her. Very simple, she said I painted my objects too big. This painting is good start for improvement. I made the orange relatively small and gave more space to the background, so the painting appears larger. When Sherrie mentioned that I painted my objects too big, I suddenly realized that David Leffel told me the same thing. Many years ago I took workshop with David. I was concentrated in painting and suddenly I heard several Chinese words: "Qiang Tai Da"(meaning: Qiang, it is too big). It was David. He knows quite many Chinese words. This time Sherrie pointed out same problem again. I realized that a problem can be so persistent. It is amazing that it takes so many years for me to understand a simple instruction like "too big", even it was in my native language.
Qiang, In my humble opinion, this is the loveliest of your paintings....elegant in its simplicity.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. The colors are mesmerizing!
ReplyDeleteWow !! Qiang this one is really beautiful - I hope your holidays are relaxing and you get to paint a lot :-)
ReplyDeleteFei-chang hau. Your winter orange stands out. Very nice work. We used to have the best valencia's in the world in CA but when Disneyland came the developers replaced them with houses. Now it's mainly navels from central CA. This painting definitely works. (i-wei hua-huar de pengyou).
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