This is my first gouache character and it took me over 40 hours to paint it. I didn’t know how to colour the character using gouache so I tried to colour it in the style of Chinese Freehand Brushwork… :-) I learned how to paint the character from the book “How to Paint Chinese Gongbei Characte...more
This is my 75th gouache and 9th waterlily of picture. When I was painting it, first time, I mixed the green color into the pink, to paint the leaves of the flower. I did feel that the opposite colors was helping me to express the flower's life power, to make a flower looks like more alive and fresh....more
This is my 73rd gouache. I created it with a small size on my sketch book during I was sick. I very love water lilies for their pure and clean even though they have to live in the silt...
Note: This Painting Was Collected in the US in Christmas, 2010. Shirley made t...more
This is my 70th gouache and the 5th peony of picture. When I was painting the second flower on it, I suddenly felt that I had found the way to deal with my colors and linds of the peonies. Anyway, today, when I am working on put it on my web site, I do feel that I have not dealt with the trunk of t...more
This is my 69th picture. I painted it for many days in my free time. However, today, when I see it once more, I do feel there are many places need to be corrected.I should make the colors cleaner and the details more meticulous...Right?