“Abandoned library” fantasy oil painting 16″×20″ ©YueZeng2025 Initial thoughts To be honest, this idea was inspired by the background images used in music videos. Many online music channels offer playlists for work, study, and deep focus. I like to play these while working. One day, I noticed that one of the images they used wasContinueContinue reading ““Abandoned library” Fantasy oil painting”
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“Castle on cloud” Fantasy oil painting
“Castle on cloud” fantasy oil painting 11″×14″ ©YueZeng2025 Initial thought Clouds are in all sizes and shapes. We often like to imagine what a piece of cloud looks like. Sometimes, the shape of high thunderstorm cloud looks like it could easily host a castle. So what about a real castle? A real white castle onContinueContinue reading ““Castle on cloud” Fantasy oil painting”
Loose brush stroke oil painting “Waterlily pond blue/yellow”
Waterlily pond blue 20″×24″ ©YueZeng Waterlily pond yellow 20″×24″ ©YueZeng Initial thoughts These two waterlily paintings were originally planed as my “End of the year relaxing project in 2023”. But it turned out to be the “Beginning of the year warming up project in 2024”. The goal is to practice loose brush stroke, lost detailsContinueContinue reading “Loose brush stroke oil painting “Waterlily pond blue/yellow””
Painting tips (3) Green colors in nature, the essential undertone
Introduction Artists probably heard this tip “Never paint with the paint straight out of a tube.” This is true, especially for green colors. For landscape that has trees, grass, forest, woods and so on, we tend to use the green colors directly because our brain tells us those things are green. However, the color inContinueContinue reading “Painting tips (3) Green colors in nature, the essential undertone”
2023 Relaxation small oil painting series (2)
Snowy stream Fig salad Kimono girl ©YueZeng2023 Previous post 2023 RELAXATION SMALL OIL PAINTING SERIES (1) Snowy stream This one can be considered as another landscape study. I like the color of reflection on water surface. But I try not to paint every tiny branches of those trees. Creating this piece was a perfect relaxationContinueContinue reading “2023 Relaxation small oil painting series (2)”
Fantasy oil painting “Ram skull waterfall”
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””
Oil painting – Creek rocks
This creek rocks painting can count as my “landscape” study. 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,ContinueContinue reading “Oil painting – Creek rocks”
Oil painting – Big tree
My another “landscape” study oil painting, big tree. 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 figuredContinueContinue reading “Oil painting – Big tree”