Frustrated with your painting? You might be entering a different stage.

July 12, 2017

Have you ever been in a place where you done couple paintings, despite all the praise and admiration you've received, you are just not happy about them? Moreover, you are frustrated because you knew you can do better, at least you think you can. The painting in your mind looks much better than what you produced? I feel like I am in that stage right now. At first I thought I've lost my touch. But after looking back to my previous works, I realized that my works are getting better in quality. It's just that I'm entering another stage as an artist. I call this stage - The growing pain stage

Behind the painting - Betty

June 27, 2017 in Behind the painting

The past Saturday was my wife's birthday. Being an artist gives me the privilege to express my feeling for her by painting her. I still remember painting her for the first time in oil back in 2004 when we were still dating. I never get tire of painting her. It gets easier since I am very familiar with the structure of her face and what makes her face. However I do find myself venture out to a new territory when it comes to painting a very familiar subject such as my wife. The confidence I have when painting her helps me to be a bit more bold and give her more character and paint her with less information.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail

June 21, 2017 in Fundamental, Principles and Value

The more I paint, the more I understand the importance of planning. I argue that's probably the main difference between a successful and an unsuccessful painting. When people ask me questions like: Why does my painting looking muddy? How do I paint a loose painting? Why does the painting never turns out the way I want? I can tell the lack of planning is the major contributor of these issues.

Large scale landscape painting demo

June 14, 2017

This week I am just going to share my new painting video. This video shows the process of how I paint a large scale landscape. One of the key is to focus on deliver the scale and the depth. What you want to do is to re-create this vast view that you get when you are on the top of a mountain. You simply can't see every detail in it nor do you need to. I hope you enjoy the video =)