畫家手札

貝里斯的國花 – 黑蘭… 用傳統的中國國畫筆法，加上西方的媒材水彩…來表達貝里斯的題材…
感覺就像貝里斯本國一樣，是個種族大熔爐

試了兩三次才將流水般的雲霧表達出來

這幅畫得有點托泥帶水，原因是一開始的色彩不夠濃，以致於後來不斷地上更多層的顏色，讓整張畫的色澤變得有點混濁…

秋天…總是來得快、去得也快

畫這幅畫時最大的挑戰之一就是如何將那些樹葉自然地呈獻出來，還有就是那枝葉完美的結合在一起…而樹葉的邊緣仍然是我覺得最難表達的地方…

在畫廊裡有一系列的作品，有意購買者請至  賣場 。

After painting Central Park series for more than a year…I feel I got bored sometimes of painting the same theme over and over….

But somehow, I still feel I am very inadequate in the brush works of my trees in my watercolors…

So I thought I should learn from Chinese painting to improve it…

This is a scene from Yellow Mountain in China, I painted it with photo reference.

The photograph really does not do justice to the overall atmosphere of this painting…The original appears warmer, cleaner and deeper..while this one seems a bit flat.

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 other hand is sort of painted intuitively…I painted the foreground and background at the same time with dripping paints on wet surface, and the space left over without paints become the lightest reflection on the painting; after that I added the branches and then some final touches for the shadow.