Painting for a special day

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 …

Fun with print making

I think the beauty of screen printing is once the screen was made one can have fun to  printing on different type of paper .For this one a image of waterlily I printed on hand made paper I made, on …

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 …

Tulips to save the day

  I find March is a difficult month for me as I looking forward for the spring arrival  however  the temperature outside remind me winter still in charge. This Monday, I woke up to another grey day and the sun …

The year of the Monkey

This year is the year of the monkey according to the Chinese calendar. I painted this babay monkey watercolor painting to celebrate the Chinese New Year, he is carry a tangerine in his mouth and the tangerine is an important symbol for the new year which means good fortune and wealth.

the watercolor is 15:x21

 

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Color of the year: Rose Quartz and Serenity

This year Panton color for 2016 is Rose Quartz and Serenity,   I used them for this magnolia watercolor painting 12″x22″.

Midnight blue with white

I love painting white flowers in watercolor because one mostly using the whiteness from the paper with the many shades of greys. I particularly like the combination of blue and white. Here is my latest watercolor of the white phalaenopsis …

Expensive paint

During the springtime, I took photos of a tree peony in bloom and the flowers were an unusual shade of pinkish violet.. I decided to use as my next painting, however I could mix the color to match that color. …

My first of July

Last month, I was completely taken away with my paper cutting and done little painting. As soon as July started I went back to my first love .here is my first of July: ‘ Visit by the Monarch” watercolor on …

Summer dream

This is my latest watercolor/paper cut , although it is rather small compare to the others I had done but it took days to complete.  I had spent the last month working on my paper cut. Today, back to painting …