Oops!!!

Hello all, I accidentally deleted quite some old posts when trying to update the blog recently - embarrassing!
I am trying to recover those lost posts as possible as I can. I was able recover a few of those posts, but lost all the comments that following the posts, sorry!

Painting Trip to Southeast Coast of Fujian, 福建写生

Late November 2013, with some painting pals, I made my first ever painting trip to Fujian, a southeast coastal province of China... fascinating places across the Taiwan Strait

Few of on-the-spot sketches posted below

Yunshuiyao, Nanjing 南靖，云水谣镇（原名长教村）
Surrounded by a small Changjiao creek, Yunshuiyao is an tranquil village over 600 yrs old peacefully nested in a lush valley. It is well know with it's Tulou, a unique cylindrical style fort architecture constructed with wooden inner structure and clay in ancient times.

Giant Banyan Trees on the Creek, 
o/c, 50cm x 35cm

 









Morning Light on Changjiao Creek
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

 
Rain Approaching
o/c, 50cm x 40cm












Afternoon Sun
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

Passing Clouds
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

Last Light on the River Bank
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

 

Huiyuanlou (fort building)
o/c, 50cm x 40cm












An Ancient Banyan Tree
o/c, 40cm x 50cm















Dazuocun, Chongwu, Huian, 崇武大岞村, 惠安

Low Tide before Sun Rise
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

Shrimping Boat
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

After Ebb
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

Afternoon at Mt. Dazuo Bay
o/c, 50cm x 40cm

Dusk Light on a Shipyard
o/c,

Paintings From Far Away -1

Back in town last week.
Posted here are few on location studies that I did on painting trips to Hunan and Anhui Provinces, southeast China.

安徽 屏山村 Pingshan Village, Yi County, Anhui Province. Peacefully nested in a valley, less than 60 miles west of the famous Mt. Huangshan ( Yellow Mountain ), the Pingshan village was established way back around 400 AD, flourished in Song dynasty, about 1000 AD. Today, over two hundred historical houses from Ming and Qing Dynasties are still standing and well kept as fine examples of Hui architecture and as silent witnesses of ancient China.


青山横北郭
A Pond outside the Village
12" x 16", oil on linen


碧野绕晴村
Morning View of Pingshan
24"x24", oil on linen


风轻听细雨
Silent Rain
20"x24", oil on linen


日暮静巷深
Dusk Light in a Quiet Alley
24"x24", oil on linen


雨后山青
Old Mansions of Pingshan
24"x24", oil on linen


夕照屏山Afternoon Light on the Valley，
20"x24", oil on linen


屏山水巷
Creek in Village
20"x24", oil on linen

Paintings From Far Away - 2

湖南沅江，洞庭湖 Yuanjiang，Lake Dongting， Hunan Province


冬晴红泥岸
Red Bank
12" x 16", oil on linen


雾白漫疏林A Misty Morning in Early Winter
16" x 20", oil on linen


暮霭秋树暖
Dusk in Lake Dongting
16" x 20", oil on linen


霜凝沅水寒
Lakeside
12" x 16", oil on linen

Field studies in High Sierra -3

Afternoon Sky
6x8, o/c


Marenet Dusk
6x8, o/c


June Lake Morning
9x12, o/c


Marenet Peaks Dusk
8x10, o/c


October at High Sierra
9x12, o/c


Cloudy Day at Silver Lake
9x12, o/c


Dusk Sky Near Mono Lake
6x8, o/c

Field studies in High Sierra -2

First Snow in October, Rock Creek
9x12, o/c


Passing Rain Clouds, Twin Lakes, CA
9x12, o/c

While painting at Twin Lakes over Mammoth Lakes, we had an unexpected art critic sneaking up on us - a wild one...

a close encounter at twin lakes

Field studies in High Sierra -1

Those are some of the field studies I did on my first ever painting trip in eastern Sierra mountains.
In the last week of Sept., with two CA friends Bob Vogel and Jason Situ, I went up to Sierra Nevada mountains - Lone Pine, Bishop, Mammoth Lakes, finally Yosemite... to paint.
The fall scenery up there was absolutely breathtaking - definitely a painter's paradise.


Convict Lake Morning
6x8, o/c


Morning Shadows, Convict Lake, CA
9x12, o/c


Last Light on Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, CA
9x12, o/c

A Common Vision

A New Book by PAPW painters
just came out


Plein air painting is an extraordinary thing. We go outdoors, set up an easel, palette, and other tools and then attempt to capture the scene before us on a canvas. Plein air painters appreciate the subtleties of light, values, edges, color and movement that can only be experienced directly by “being there”. They hope to breathe the reality of this direct experience into each painting. The paintings in this book are a combination of plein air and studio paintings created by the members of PAPW. 100 color images.
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sketching charleston,sc

Finally got around to post few sketches that I did in Charleston, SC. - my first trip ever to Charleston. It's quite an old but charming coastal town, full of history and cultural. I went up there to see Jason Situ's show, and got to paint with him for couple of days. It was a fun trip.


At the Corner of Church St.
10x8, o/c


An Old House
12x9, o/c


Morning on Meeting St.
16x20, o/c

on the easel

evening calm, 36"x24", o/c

what's new on the easel

distant thunder, 36x24, o/c


late summer on high country, 30x24, o/c


solitude in wilderness, 30x20, o/c

Happy Holidays!

Landscape Painting Workshop

I will be conducting a landscape painting workshop presented by PAPW in New Mexico next sumer

Five-Day Plein Air Landscape Oil Painting Workshop
When: 08/11 - 15, 2008
Where: The Mission in Grants, New Mexico
Click PAPW Workshops to see details and to register

new ptgs - available at DiTommaso Gallery

Dusk Light at Paradise Valley, Livingston, MT,
16x20,oil on linen

Drifting Clouds Over Beehive Basin, Big Sky, MT,
24x30, oil on linen