What are we sending out to the world today?

What are we sending out to the world today?

If Love is an universal language, then art is an written form of that language. Being an artist, we have the privilege to send that language out. Everyday on the social media, people are sending out hateful, judgmental and depressing messages. It is not my position to be political, but we'd kid ourselves if we pretend this world is in peace and harmony. There are artists out there producing works that are provocative, offending, and shocking. While I do think everyone has their freedom of speech, and every artist has their right to produce the type of work they want, I want to encourage you to create works that sending out a positive message.

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Behind the painting - Afternoon drive thru

Today I want to go over one of the painting I painted recently. I'll be going over why I pick the subject, my source material, and my interpretation of the source. While I will not cover much technical part of the painting, I am going to talk about my thoughts behind the painting. A huge part of a successful painting is the thought process of the artist and how does he/she gives a unique visualization of the subject. If you have the basic technical knowledge down but not thinking about the design of your overall picture, you end up copying your photo 1:1 and can end up a nice looking but boring painting.

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It's not about the new years resolution, it's about being consistent!

It's not about the new years resolution, it's about being consistent!

Welcome to 2017! Everyone has a fresh start, set big plan and big goal, and start working on the new years resolution we set a few days ago. But if you really think about it, the calendar year are somewhat man made. It is for us to be able to look at time in a more structural way so we can measure, schedule and reference better.

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Learning painting is a long term consistent effort

Learning painting is a long term consistent effort

Here we are at the last week of 2016! It has surely been an challenging journey for many of us. Whether is the election result, the famous people who passed away, the disasters, or our personal life event. Despite of all these, we should still look back and reflect what have we done and accomplished.

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