Tracking Dream

Available at New Masters Gallery.

This is another painting I just sent to New Masters Gallery recently, please contact them if you are interested in having it.

I really admire many artists who can paint daily. I can only paint one day per week, a poor weekly painter.

By the way, my daughter titled this painting, I like it :)

Tendai

The finished painting.



The detail of head.



The detail of torso.

Available at Waterhouse Gallery

Tendai - part 1

Available at Waterhouse Gallery.

I am working on a two days pose painting, and this is what I have for the first day. I would like to share a little of my approach for painting a model more than one day today.

At the beginning, I need to have an idea about composition, the design of color and value; of course, most important is the idea for the painting, these take a lot of time for me sometime.

Then I will mark some key spots for the proportion. When I continue on the painting, I will just focus on one part of the painting each day, and try to finish the part as much as I can. I find this is the best way for me to paint a live model because next time she may not pose the same thing for you :) but I will still need to come back adjust the whole painting later.

I will try to do some set up for next time by the end of the day, therefore I will have some chances to apply different techniques on the painting later.

Tendai is a beautiful African girl, the texture on the canvas showing through her face added a trace feeling of wildness to her, I like it.

Sketches - SOLD

by New Masters Gallery.

Girl with a jar

Available at New Masters Gallery.

Landscape Series (Provence, France) - SOLD

I am going to have a Fine Arts museum trip to New York and Washington DC with my friends later this month. I want to see some paintings from Fechin, Rembrandt and Sargent, any suggestion about good museums in that area?

Red Coif

The model sat between two windows, the nature lights came from both side. I changed the color temperature on right side to create more interest and the difficult part was the light kept changing from morning to afternoon.

Boats (Monterey Bay)

Celery

Available at Silvana Gallery.

I don't paint still life too much, but just did this one today for a homework, please let me know you opinion.

A man alone

His handsome face and matted hair attracted me. I felt that I painted the hair a little too tight when I looked at it the next morning. I will try it better next time.

Self portrait

I don't like to paint self portrait, but I did this one because it is a homework.
I love drawing, but most of the time I choice to paint because I love oil painting more.
So when I am painting, some time I feel I holding my brush like holding a piece of charcoal, after I finished the painting, I use my camera to transfer the picture to monochrome, then I can see my painting as a charcoal drawing, like this one.