Snow | Watercolor by Joseph Chiang

Snowy Central Park, New York #22

April 20th, 2008

Last week I went to Metropolitan Museum and saw some really amazing detailed paintings by ancient masters….their paintings allow viewers to gaze for a long time and still discovering “new places” on the landscape…this experience inspired me to be even more focused on the details of my landscape watercolor…I find I start using some of

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Snowy Central Park, New York #20

April 17th, 2008

This one is a bit smaller…at 5.5″ x 8″
It’s up for bid on eBay.

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Snowy Central Park, New York #19

April 9th, 2008

I got frustrated this morning…for I feel a bit tired to do all those detailed branches…so I decided to do something looser and smaller…. without any preliminary sketch I started this painting…then I quickly fell into my old habit of painting those branches…

I think it’s not that I am tired of painting branches…it’s just that

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Decided to drop the seal

April 7th, 2008

12″ x 8″ Snowy Central Park 18

Starting from this painting, I would no longer use my seal along with the signature…
I have been using it because I thought it would remind people of traditional Chinese painting…
But now…I feel it is not necessary….there is no need in using it to tell people that I am doing

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Snowy Central Park 17

March 22nd, 2008

I wasn’t quite satisfied with this one…the back ground was overdone…
and I thought I paid too much attention the those branches to the right side..
allowed them to get “too old”…..and branches to the left side were just terrible

trying to paint those cumulated snow on branches really disrupted