Today, it is the start of the Chinese new year or the Luna new year, the year of the dog. Every year I would create a new painting for this special occasion. This time I decided to paint a bouquet … Continue reading
Painting for a special day
Category Archives: spring
Poppy with butterfly paper cut
Many of my ideas came from a simple notation of “what if?”: yesterday while taking some photos of some of my latest my paper cut,I noticed one was done on black paper, another one was in while.All of sudden, I … Continue reading
Valentine bouquet
When I was in art school I used to work part time in a flower shop. The tiny shop was in a big hotel owned by a friend, I used to work on Fridays. Most of the customers were guests from the hotel and people work nearby. During the year we were not super busy but Valentine was anther story.
We had so much orders for Valentine my friend would got her family and friends to help out. We had so much flowers with no room to keep them, she had to book a hotel room to keep some of the arrangements and also for us to rest during our long working hours.
it was working at that little flower shop how my interest of plants and flowers started. During the slow time of the day I would read books on plants care and adding more more and indoor plants for my apartment
Every February I would think of the time I worked at that flower shop how we prepare for the Valentine week and all those beautiful bouquets we carefully packed for the cold winter.
Valentine bouquet, watercolor 14″x12″
“On the watch”, watercolor painting
Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. I finally finished this painting “on the watch” a week ago but somehow forgotten to post it here. I posted it on my facebook page and got many likes and comments, one even suggested to make into a puzzles!
here is the finished version, watercolor on 140lb cold press Fabriano paper, 14″x12″
Christmas painting with color of the year 2017
One of the art supply stores was having a 30% sale a couple of weeks before Christmas. I decided to take advantage the sale and ordered some Daniel Smith watercolors online. Although it took days to arrive but I was … Continue reading
A painting a day #29 “Tulip festival”
The tulip festival in Ottawa attracts many flower lovers from all over. Although I been to Ottawa many times but never when the festival was on. Only a few years ago, I was lucky to catch it. Everywhere there … Continue reading
A painting a day #26 ” tulip with green’
Well we had our first snow of the year yesterday which made me thought of the long months of winter ahead: I thought it will be at least six more months before I see the tulips in bloom at … Continue reading
A painting a day #16 “spring iris”
When I first start the daily painting, I kept it small and most of the paintings are around 10″x8″. Somehow I getting away from that size. today’s painting is lot larger, 12’x16″ but still managed to finished today.
watercolor on 140lb cold press Fabriano paper, 12’x16″
A painting a day #14 “Radiance”
It been one of those nasty Autumn day, dark , cold, rain with strong wind even threat of snow. I stayed home all day and in order to bright up my day, I worked on this painting, “Radiance” on 140 lb cold press Fabriano paper, 10″x8″
A painting a day #13 “lily with blues”
I take lots of photos during the year especially spring and summer when beautiful flowers are every where. Some of my neighbors on my street are great gardeners. whenever I walk by their gardens I would stop and snap … Continue reading
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