A village painting study

 

I copied a painting of an infamous artist to practice my color temperature control. The warm and cool were varied by mixing proportionally transparent oxide red (TOR) and Portland gray deep (PGD). The objective of this project is to make the color temperature relationship correct for the light/shadow, and near/far fields. With a home-made color temperature metrology, I use my apps to measure color temperature numerically. If I did this project correctly, I should achieve two visual effects: 1, all 3D structures will looks vividly solid with a consistent local color invariance between light and shadow; 2,  although I used very low chroma colors (grays), the painting would not look muddy. Please be noted: this is a NOT a monochromatic painting. It has two colors: orange (TOR warm) and blue (PGD cool). I am working in the dark by myself now, but I want to keep you posted.

Albert Handell's painting workshop

 

Happy Holidays my artist friends. I can't believe that 2024 is almost over. I have been enjoying my holidays. Relatively quiet, I have been painting and thinking about both art and science. I have not posted much of my own work because I am doing so many experiments, and my images are not that showable. I am re-learning so many things. Meanwhile, I am in awe of so many wonderful master artists doing exceptional excellent work. I want to promote more of their teachings. So I want to remind you that the famous artist master Albert Handell will come to Austin again and teach an 5 days oil and pastel painting workshop in January 2025. With vibrant colors and exquisite textures, Albert's paintings are so phenomenal and his techniques are unique. It is a great opportunity to learn from Albert. Please check the workshop information on  https://www.qhart.com/albert-handell-2025 and sign up.

Qiang's 2025 Painting Calendar

 

As usual at this holiday season, I have made a desk calendar for the coming new year 2025. Sorry to said I am a little late this year to announce this. You may preview my painting images and purchase one or more on https://www.qhart.com/store/2025-calendar.  I can't believe 2024 is almost over. I am so grateful that so many of you are supporting me. Without your help, it is not possible I can survive in this treacherous time. If you think my painting, teaching, and all the related work I do are useful, that will make me very happy. Thank you so much.