Watercolor by Joseph Chiang

I notice a lot of people from my department trying to go large and turn out to create garbage. To me, I feel I must get enough practice on smaller format before I can go to larger painting, otherwise I would have too little to put on my larger paper and end up putting more

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This is the largest painting I have ever tried, (72″ x 44″)
The goal is like the painting, “The Tree with Human Soul”, to capture the overall fluency of branches.

I think it’s the starting point of working towards abstraction…
I did some experiment of using Pebeo Drawing Gum and even sanding it.
The goal is to capture the overall fluency of the branches.

Being economical, meanning using less strokes to achieve what I want, is crucial for my work to have authenticity.
I find the nature is the best composer. When I see the way branches grow on different type of trees, I am amazed by how they are able to grow countless branches at once and able to

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