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Sunset Sea#3

November 20th, 2008

This painting is a bit overdone and muddy. It is because the initial wash was too light and I ended up adding too many layers…something to avoid in watercolor…

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Central Park Autumn

November 15th, 2008

Autumn…It comes and goes so fast…

I tried to make the foliage as spontaneous as possible. One of the challenge in doing this painting is to find the perfect marriage between those quick foliage washes and the branches…and I still haven’t find the best way to paint those leaves edges…

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Evening at Cental Park #26

June 18th, 2008

The photograph really does not do justice to the overall atmosphere of this painting

Evening at Central Park #20

April 30th, 2008

Both images are 8″ x 12″
300lb Arches cold press
with Sennelier watercolor

Both are painted with photo reference taken at the Central Park, NY…
However, they were done with different methods. This first one is additive layering(not sure if there is such term…), I painted the lighter background and gradually added darker foreground. The second one on the

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Evening at Central Park

April 29th, 2008

These are the 3 recent paintings…
I thought I did a good job on the sun-setting atmosphere at the Central Park on the first painting; it’s not so hard to capture the feeling of the light background with the shadowed foreground, because all I have to do in this case is to paint the dark foreground

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Watercolor by Joseph Chiang

Sunset Sea#3

Central Park Autumn

Evening at Cental Park #26

Evening at Central Park #20

Evening at Central Park

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