I’ve always wanted to paint landscape. I admire those beautiful landscape paintings with loose brush stroke full of expression and accurate light and shadow form. But it is out of my comfortable zone. So I tried something with less “land” elements such as field, grass, hills or forest. I picked up this piece to do … More Oil painting – Creek rocks
This one took a long time, but finally it is here. I’m glad that everything somehow settled down since we relocated here at MN. Still has a lot to do but at least I can have some unbroken time slot to paint. That is good for me now. Under this year’s situation, I can’t ask … More Oil painting-Floating polar bear
Oh, well well. First of all, thank God that I didn’t lost my sanity during lock down time, especially home school time. (T ^ T) At the beginning it seemed fun and OK. And then things started to go south. Finally I feel numb. I feel like the mantis in Kungfu Panda movie. When mantis … More Painted sea shells in blue and white pattern
At the beginning I wanted to try some landscape related subject as a practice of “getting out of your comfort zone”. So I pick this tree. I started the procedure as usual and it went not bad until the moment I needed to paint leaves. I figured out the bark, the rock and the earth … More Oil painting – Big tree
Finally, it is this time of year. 2019 is truly busy and challenging for me. But somehow I manage it and follow my schedule without too much delay. Yeah~ New year is even more challenging. Our whole family will relocate to another state. I’m not sure how I can accomplish that but I will keep … More Happy New Year, Welcome 2020~
It’s been a while since my last actual digital painting. I spend most of the time working on traditional medium. Finally I find out sometime this week to practice in digital. Since I’m not quite happy with this HBO show (since last season), I want to have my version of dream of spring — Sansa … More Digital painting Sansa Stark – Dream of Spring
Last year, I picked up some feathers of Canada goose at my community pond around May (if I remember correctly). I guess they were changing feathers at that time. It only last 2 or 3 days and no more feathers to be found. Some of the feathers are really big, over 10 inches long and … More Oil painting on a Canada goose feather
This is a practice for me to explore and adjust some brushes in my digital drawing software. Most of time I tend to use one single brush to finish all work. So I have to force myself try something new and play with dozes of parameters on each brush. I was watching movie <Spectral> when … More Digital painting of Bruce Greenwood
This was a painting for my friend’s wedding last year. The reference photo comes from MT-Photografien. It took me sometime to build up light effect but finally I did it. Well the good thing was my friend liked it. And she had a wonderful wedding. O(∩_∩)O I only took some snapshots by my cellphone as … More Oil painting of pair of swan
Before I was obsessed with those YouTube painting channels, I was obsessed with those YouTube makeup channels. And among those who are very famous, I find this channel, PICTURRESQUE I Regina. I fall in love with her videos at once. Every video feels like a story and full of inspiration, especially this one, PAT MCGRATH … More Drawing Picturresque from YouTube
