Category: What I learned

Red roses painting for anniversary

March 28, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

This year on Valentine’s day, my husband brought back some red roses on his way home. I was in the laugh and cry mode. After 9 years, he finally learned […]

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Oil painting with limited time

March 25, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

I haven’t try painting in a limited time. Often I think myself is a slow painter. If I can bypass the “timely manner” practice I would. Last year my parents […]

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My list of packaging/shipping supplies

March 4, 2021.Reading time 10 minutes.

When I started to paint, I didn’t think about how to package and ship my paintings through and through. I looked some videos talking about how to ship artwork but […]

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Green foundation in figure oil painting

February 19, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

After using green foundation technique for pastel portrait drawing, I wanted to try it with oil paint. Cuong Nguyen has 3 videos for an oil painting portrait. I tried with […]

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My toy figures collection

January 30, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

I started to collect some animal toy figures when I started to paint animals. The idea is I can’t go in wild and find a real tiger or red fox […]

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Abstract painting study

January 1, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Abstract painting for the first day of new year~! Actually this is not my very first abstract painting study. I painted one like heart shape. This time I wanted to […]

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Palette knife painting studies

December 31, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Finally, 2020 is done. Although this year is tough, I am glad that I was able to try new painting methods/subjects. Palette knife painting was one of them. The first […]

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Some of my wood works

November 8, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

One day when I watched TV with my husband in our previous house in GA, he said “you should get a bookshelf for your office area.” I answered, “I can […]

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