Fantasy oil painting “Ram skull waterfall” ©YueZeng2023 Initial thoughts I was thinking something about ram skull. I painted it before in 2018 and loved it. However this time I didn’t want to do the still life again. I was looking for something unusual but also peaceful. Although the skull was from a dead creature, itContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Ram skull waterfall””
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Fantasy oil painting “Blue serpent and glowing eggs”
Fantasy oil painting “Blue serpent and glowing eggs” ©YueZeng2023 Initial thoughts This concept started with eggs. I wanted to paint some golden eggs. Then I thought glowing golden eggs could be more interesting. Next, eggs should be in nest. To make a story scene I prepared a snake around the nest so it had someContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Blue serpent and glowing eggs””
Fantasy oil painting “Royal couple black and white swan”
“Royal couple black and white swan” ©YueZeng2023 Initial thoughts There are pair of white swan and pair of black swan. Why not one white swan and one black swan? In “Swan lake”, white swan is princess and black swan is evil. Why black swan has to be evil all the time? I am going toContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Royal couple black and white swan””
Fantasy oil painting “Bee house”
Original fantasy oil painting “Bee house” ©YueZeng Initial thoughts The idea comes from Bug hotel. Although I am not a fan of bugs, I think this idea is cute and brilliant. So I made a house for bees. The house has no perfect straight-line. It looks crooked, unregulated. It is made of clay and woodContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Bee house””
Fantasy oil painting “Leopard woman”
Original fantasy oil painting “Leopard woman” ©YueZeng Background In 2002, animation version of <The Twelve Kingdoms> began to broadcast. At that time, I was not so interested in this story because the author, Fuyumi Ono (小野不由美) clearly borrowed almost entire mythology concept from ancient Chinese tales and history. The landscape, the names, the mystery creatures,ContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Leopard woman””
Fantasy oil painting “Owl messenger”
Original fantasy oil painting “Owl messenger” ©YueZeng Initial thoughts I love to paint owl. I have ink drawing, gouache painting and oil painting owls. Barn owl – ink Great horned owl – gouache Barn owl This time I want to challenge myself to paint an owl with its wings and body, not just a bigContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Owl messenger””
Fantasy oil painting “Checkerboard octopus”
Fantasy oil painting “Checkerboard octopus” ©YueZeng Background As I mentioned in my post “Differences between Cuttlefish, Squid and Octopus”, both cuttlefish and octopus have excellent camouflage ability. Some experiments show that cuttlefish tries so hard to merge itself with a checkerboard surrounding pattern. https://youtu.be/pgDE2DOICuc I can see they are doing everything they can.🤣 So theContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Checkerboard octopus””
Fantasy oil painting “Mushrooms shelter”
Original fantasy oil painting “Mushrooms shelter” ©YueZeng 2023 Initial thoughts This starts with the mushrooms. I like the idea of putting two tiny mice under the mushrooms. They are hiding from the hunter, in this case, yes, the cat. Soon I gather enough reference photos for this piece. But I do have hard time choosingContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Mushrooms shelter””
Fantasy oil painting “The ugly duckling”
Original fantasy oil painting “The ugly duckling” ©YueZeng 2023 Initial thoughts Maybe we all know the story that a little grey ugly duckling grows into a beautiful white swan. To me, this story fits in the Chinese old saying “Dragon gives birth to dragon and phoenix gives birth to phoenix.” Despite the genetic issue, IContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “The ugly duckling””
Fantasy oil painting “Mirror dimension”
Fantasy oil painting “Mirror dimension” ©YueZeng Initial thoughts One day I found this free stock photo of two red foxes. I like it. These two red foxes have a potential story to tell. So I want to explore that story a little further. Rather than just two ordinary foxes meet each other in the wild,ContinueContinue reading “Fantasy oil painting “Mirror dimension””