"Washington Headquarter" --- Sold

The rain finally stopped. I went to the Valley Forge National Park, and painted the Washington Headquarter. It was a cold day, but I painted the first time outdoors at this painting festival.

"Tea Party" --- Sold

My 2nd painting at the Wayne PA Festival was done at a placed called the Willow Brook Farm. It was raining heavily. I decided to paint inside an old barn. I found whole bunch of antique items and formed a typical still life setup, which is indeed my "cup of tea". I did not set up a light and use the existing lighting in the room. It was fun, and I completely forgot the rain outside.

"Red Geranium" --- Sold

I have participated the 13th Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival from May 13 to 19. I did 12 paintings, sold 10 of them and won an award. I want to thank Anne and Phil Graham for offering their lovely home for us to stay. This one is my first painting there. It was a raining day. I decided to stay indoors. The location was at Valley Forge Flowers.

"Demo in Austin 2019 3" --- Sold

Somehow I forgot to post this one. I am pretty sure that old clock is older than I am. Time is an interesting thing. We think it is linear. The future can never meet the past. Well, the clock tells us something different. Time goes in circles.

"Demo in Austin 2019 4"

My Austin workshop seems eons ago. Many things have happened since then. We have put our house on the market more than a month now. So far nobody want to buy it. Very soon we will close another house. I remembered someone "advised" me when I decided to quit my job: "Qiang, please do not leave your job. Imagine you need to buy a house. If you are an engineer, you will get a loan easily. Well, if you say you are an artist, you probably will not get the loan you need." 9 years has passed. Unfortunately, this someone's advice has been proved TRUE.

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"Demo in Austin 2019 2"

I bought an interesting looking oil lamp from an antique store of somewhere a long time ago. Finally I got a chance to paint it. Here it comes.

"China 2019 Trip Reminder"

The deadline of the application of our China 2019 trip is approaching. Please visit my website to sign up. To some people this might be one of the life time opportunity. Please do not miss it. We are look forward to traveling and painting with you.

"Demo in Austin 2019 1"

Back from Indiana, and started teaching at the hometown. Doing still life again. Life goes on as usual. "Compromise" is the word. I will never give up my art, but I have to give in almost everyday. I wish, I surely wish, some day I can paint without guilt.

"Demo at New Harmony 2019 4" --- Sold

As the final demo, I did this painting from a photo I took near Easton MD.

"Demo at New Harmony 2019 2" --- Sold

This is my 2nd time visiting New Harmony Indiana and teach there. This town had two utopian experiments in the history. She is quite unique. My workshop was "painting landscape from photo" I snapshot these two old cabins, and this my my demo.

"Demo at Enumclaw 2019 3"

As usual, my 3rd demo was flowers. I do rose most of the time. This time is different. I painted daisies this time. I think I did ok.

"Demo at Enumclaw 2019 2" --- Sold

This is my 2nd demo. The copper pot is very special. It is from Teheran, Iran.

"Demo at Enumclaw 2019 1" --- Sold

I did a workshop at Enumclaw Washington on April 12 - 14. Two weeks have passed. Here is my delayed post of my first demo. Thanks to Pat Doyle and Susan Taylor for organizing.

Landscape painting workshop at Lowell Michigan

About a month from now, I will go to Lowell Michigan and teach a landscape workshop. For quite a few years, I have been pondering how to make landscape (either plein air or studio) more dynamic. I have gained more experiences by participating multiple plein air painting competitions. In this workshop I want to share with you what I have learned these a couple of years. We still have a few opening. If you are interested in knowing my process of painting landscapes, please join me in Michigan. For detailed information, please check my website or Qiang Huang Workshop at Lowell, and sign up. 

"Demo at Springfield 2019 3" --- Sold

Those pink flowers are not roses, they are ranunculus. But they so much like roses. I am always looking for chances I can improve my floral paintings. This one has give me a baby step improvement.

"Demo at Springfield 2019 2" --- Sold

Sometimes, it is hard to say weather I am going too much or not. The 2nd demo is here. I feel I am so borderline now. It was fun to play the abstractness on the background, but I do wonder where this spirit of playing leads me to. Even my son comments quite often that dad is still a teenager. He just wants to play.

"Demo at Springfield 2019 1" --- Sold

Left the Deep South, I have arrived at the West Coast. This is the demo 1 I did at Springfield Oregon. I want thank Gene Costanza and the Emerald Art Center for organizing my workshop, and thanks to all artists for coming. It rains a lot here, but we had fun indoors.

"Demo at Lake Martin 2019 4" --- Sold

This is my 4th demo at Lake Martin: painting flowers. I put a few dogwood flowers. I don't know I did a good job on them or not.

"Demo at Lake Martin 2019 3"

This is demo 3 I did at Lake Martin. It is also my favorite one. I have started to pay attention on color scheme design with this painting. The harmony of the color design on this painting was my intention.

"Demo at Lake Martin 2019 2" --- Available

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This is my 2nd demo at Lake Martin. Silver, brass, and porcelain.

"Demo at Lake Martin 2019 1" --- Sold

This is my first demo on the workshop at the Tallapoosa School of Art at Lake Martin, AL. I want to thank Dorothy and George Littleton for organizing this workshop, and thank all the artists for attending. Lake Martin is a beautiful place. If you are interested to visit and paint there, please check: http://www.tallapoosaworkshops.com.

"Demo at Dahlonega 2019 5" --- Available

I was requested to do a demo at Dahlonega after my workshop. So I did this one. I have experimented a little on the composition. You have seen so many of my demo paintings, probably get bored with them because they are very similar. I decided to do this demo a little different.

"Demo at Dahlonega 2019 4"

This is the last day of my Dahlonega workshop. This is my floral painting demo .

"Demo at Dahlonega 2019 3" --- Sold

The third demo, I have used more textures and broken colors. It was fun.

"Demo at Dahlonega 2019 2" --- Available

Demo 2 at Dahlonega. Falling in love with cobalt teal and pthalo blue.

"Demo at Dahlonega 2019 1"

I am on my teaching trips again. At this moment I am at Dahlonega GA, teaching a still life workshop. I want to thank Anita Elder for organizing this workshop, and thanks to all the artists for coming and paint with me. This is my today's demo painting.

"Austin in Twilight Zone" --- Available

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I have managed and painted a few paintings between my teaching trips. I did this one from a photo taken by one of my wife's friends. Austin has changed significantly these a few years.

"Demo at Paso Robles 2018 3" --- Sold

Another delayed painting post. I don't understand (actually, I DO understand) why we all are so busy everyday. There are so many things we must do. We do it, nothing will happen, but if we don't do it, we will be in trouble. If you have seen I have been quiet for a long time, which means I am busier. Art is easy, but life is way harder. I taught many workshops, I must say I have learned way more from my students than I have taught them. There are three major sufferings we all have to face: aging, sickness, and death. Money and fame are useless in front of these three. Many of my art students have to deal with these suffering everyday. I admire their tenacity and courage.  I am on my way to maturity.

"Demo at Paso Robles 2018 2" --- Sold

I wish I can post my painting more on time, but when life throws a curved ball, we must adapt. I have nothing to complain, just hope life can be a little easier.  This is my second demo in Paso Robles.

"Demo at Paso Robles 2019 1" --- Sold

This is my 1st demo on my Paso Robles workshop. I really want to thank Marion and Robert for offering their lovely home for me to stay. Thanks to all California artists for attending this workshop.