Watercolor by Joseph Chiang

To extend a paiting indefinitely is an idea I came up from my mint ivy series; the concept of the mint ivy is to depict how little beings like Mint Ivy are being restrained by the human structure – the human society. And the idea I have on this note(shown by the thumbnail) is to

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I feel even my works has a lot of abstract elements in it, I still need to base on my realist descipline in order to make it strong.

Abstract art or non representational art all must start with something real; whether it’s the reduction of the real form or just the way how people feel about

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It’s the same painting from the post “watercolor that grows”… Today I start to use some more “human” element, such as friscket for blocking out white area…or lay washes of paint with soft petit gris brushes. Still, most of time I tried hard to let paints “grow” itself.

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What if a painting is not painted by the artist but grows by itself? Would it still be considered as a painting? or is it still art?

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For a good artist, every piece of work is transitional
-Joseph Ching