June 1, 2016. Oil on canvas. 40 x 55cm.

Practising with Master Tang for 3 months had turned me into a different artist. 

I started to know what was a good work. I started to know more about color. 

But I was still very green about the brush stroke. And I was very weak in the overall shape and the details. 

This painting was a adorable violet little flower Master Tang cut at the roadside. It was small and fragile. I was nervous when I painted it because of the amount of details which I didn’t know how to simplify it in an artistic way.

I just wondered: may be I could only paint simple object fir the rest of my painting life. Would that be true? So sad about it. I had nothing to do except keep trying and trying.