Abstract and Fantasy.
Soon after I joined Artfinder early this year, I have a few overseas orders. Although the transit time of international shipping is slow, it is also interesting to track my painting go around world. And then I start to notice some sort of pattern of the shipping route of USPS. To United Kingdom Everything from […]
Read MoreThis 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 that he could bring back some flowers (especially roses) for me on the way home. I intentionally talked about this countless times after we got […]
Read MoreI 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 were staying with us. With their help I could paint some pieces during the pandemic. After they went back to their home in November, things […]
Read MoreWhen 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 that was it. When I got my first actual order for my original painting, I reached out my hands to these packaging and shipping supplies. […]
Read MoreAfter 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 his palette using burnt umber, ivory black, yellow oxide and titanium white. However, mine is not as “green” as his on canvas. Mine was more […]
Read MoreI 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 or even polar bear for me to study. Even I can live in the zoo the animals won’t listen to me or obey my instructions. […]
Read MoreOne day I wanted to paint like stained glass with 3D liner. Actually, I’ve tried glass painting in my college days. But I don’t want to purchase whole set of glass painting gear at this point. I wanted to try using what I have on hand, oil paint and medium. Well, the painting part was […]
Read MoreOne day I caught up a video on YouTube called “Lucas the spider“. I’m not sure if Lucas is a jumping spider, but look at an example of their videos, I was really interested in this concept. And Lucas the spider just “cute”, especially the voice. To be honest, I can’t deal with insects. I’m […]
Read MoreAbstract 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 try something rustic. The reference photo I use for this study was texture of metal rust. Well for me it was the most “abstract” picture […]
Read MoreFinally, 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 piece I tried was “Pathway to lighthouse”. I put the base color layer by palette knife only. And then I went over another layer with […]
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