Christmas is almost here. I took my glass santa out of the box and started to draw him. My studio is filled with the Christmas music. I am totally in christmas mood. when I finished the image, I still liked to work more with him. So I painted him with the same composition. I love This season.
5″ x 6.5″, Graphite on illustration board
5″ x 6.5″, Acrylic on illustration board
It is already December. My favorite autumn is gradually changing to the cold winter and I will turn into an indoor cat.
Acrylic on an Illustration board, 6″ x 8″
I have not painted nor drawn for a while. Now I am ready to go back to work again.
5″ x 7″, Acrylic on gessoed board
I prefer oil medium to acrylic. Oil paints give me more flexibility to mix the colors on the canvas and create smoother transition between colors. However, I have a bad habit of mixing colors too much and create muddy colors. So whenever I like to maintain the clear and crisp color I usually use acrylic paint. But the downside of using acrylic paint is painting becomes very tight. I am going to paint this image again with oil and see what will happen.
8″ x 8″ Acrylic on Gessoed Board
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It is simply hot here. We go to swim in the morning and take a nap in the afternoon. What did people do when the AC systems were not available?
6″ x 6″ Oil on gessoed bord
This is an image of the first water lily bloomed this summer. It is very mysterious and have almost dream like qualities in it. When we are not looking at flowers, I am sure that there are strange things going on in our backyard.
6″ x 6″ acrylic on gessoed board
I woke up early in the morning and went to the nearby lake. The mist on the lake was so mysterious and enigmatic that I felt like I were still in my dream. There were many different kind of birds but very quiet and still.
12″ x 9″ Canvas Oil
My dearest friend Judy has so many neat stuffs. She has such a great eye for unique and beautiful things. When I go to her home, I feel like I am in wonder land. Finally I got a few antique and art marbles for myself. The largest one on right is one of the new ones. But too much excitement and too many marble paintings. I need to move onto the landscape painting again.
6″ x 6″ Gessoed paned Acrylic
This image is very similar to the one I painted a couple days ago. But the lighting are different. The previous one was set on my desk top and its lighting was controlled. This image was set outside under the sun because I thought that the strong sun light might enrich the transparent brilliant colors. It did not work out like I was hoping for. Instead I had a hard time painting this image because there were not so much shadows and drama created by the values. I am going to try one more time this image set under the controlled light today and see if it works better.
5″ x 4.5″ Illustration Board Acrylic
I have a pair of beautiful antique egg holders. When I played with one of them and marbles, they look very pretty together. So here they are sitting on my desk.
5″ x 5″ Illustration Board Acrylic
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