Feb 2016. Oil on canvas. 22 x 30cm. I used to like plein air painting and that was my major practice and learning opportunity in these 2 years. But I had decided to give up plein air for a while. The focus for 2016 would be my basic sketching skill. I hope the fundamental training… Read More
July 1, 2016. Pencil sketching. 45 x 60cm. After quitting Master Yim’s studies in Taiwan, I continue to work on sketching exercise during my spare time. This was another human portrait which I felt proud of myself. But at the same time, it was a difficult task when I did it. And I had to… Read More
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… Read More
June 25, 2016. Pencil sketching. 24″ x 36″. 12 hours. Learning sketching in Taiwan became a big burden to my health. I was always striving to minimise the influence of the trips on my work and family and other painting activities. Therefore I used to take the latest or earliest flight. That meaned I would… Read More
August 20, 2016. Oil on canvas. 35 x 45 cm. I had been learning oil painting for more than 3 years. No clue for improvements. All I could do was to do more practises. I had gotten more than 1000 piece of works so far. Yet quantity had no co-relationship with quality. The hardest I… Read More
August 25, 2016. Oil on canvas. 12 x 16cm. Learning is so much fun, especially when you reached a breakthrough point. Following a marvaleous top artist couple teachers, I had been working very hard at the direction they guided me. Improvements was barely recognised. And teachers always expressed discontent about how soon I forgot his… Read More
August 15, 2016. Oil on canvas. 40″ x 50″ Human facilities was more difficult to paint. Nature had a rich colour which were compromise and coordinated. But human constructed items – roads, houses etc were artificial and required more artistic skills to incorporate it to the environment. This painting was the roadside near Taipei. It… Read More
August 16, 2016. Oil on canvas. 32 x 40cm Trees were one of my weakest link. I spent 2 weeks working on it, but still not much progress. This painting did not have distinquished color tone set out and the “space” of the forrest was not well presented. Look like I need to work harder.… Read More
August 13, 2016. Oil on canvas. 32 x 40cm Still trees. For a scenery painting it is inevitable to present elements such as sky, clouds, sea, mountains. Also trees. If you are handicap in any one aspect it will compromise all your other merits. My weakest part in scenery is trees. With an intensive practice… Read More
August 7, 2016. Oil on canvas. 32 x 40cm The training was to distinguish similar colour and generalise them into few colour palettes. In the reality, colour is very complicated. One essential skill of painting is to simplify. This is no easy stuff for all people. In this painting I tried to simplify the trees… Read More
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