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Watercolor painting a swan in a lake - Join our 2-day painting marathon

on March 12, 2024

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Emotional space in painting

I have used this in my teaching, and thought I have explained it very well. I would like to elaborate on this in deeper detail here. The first time I learned about this, subject was some 30 years ago, when I read some books on art and psychology and dreams and sociology. I started to come up with a theory: we can define a mental "space" between an artist's imagination, creativity and his/her reference materials, in another words, the reality. Depending on the amount of mental space, or distance in between the emotional injection and the reference materials that the artwork created is based on, it will cause the artwork to appear more or less LIKE the reality of the subject matter. For example, if a painter paints a red apple from observation, say, he starts to set up the light source, chooses the backdrop material, and so on. When he starts to paint the apple, if he paints the red apple only based on direct observation, the painting may look more like the r

The places I do my paintings

I needed a professional painting studio. This thought grew stronger and stronger toward to end of my MFA studio after I visited the work places of the conditions that other professional artists which include some of my classmates. Yes, I needed a professional, bright, spacious studio, in order to do my best work. That was my believe. I talked to my wife, as always, she supported me, as she supported any of my ideas if I strongly believed in. I did some search, and finally had three general construction contractors come over to give us their pitch. At the end, we decided to build my studio above our existing two-car garage, and gave the job to one of the contractor, but two years had passed, and we gave him more money than we agreed for the entire project, the studio is still not finished... And that it proofs that was the biggest mistake we had made in recent years. Do I really need a professional studio to create the best artwork? That would be nice to have a beautiful painting st

Painting a winter memory in Watercolor

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