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  Urban landscape painting 03 oil painting study on 11x14" canvas      There is a proverb, "Everyone who walks will leave a trace", which is confirmed and reflected in my learning process in "urban landscape painting". On this road, I have been engaged in graphic and children's illustration design for many years, and later in commercial exhibitions design. I created some unique projects in this field. At that time, there was no 3D Max. Almost all of the perspective color drawing proposals were completed by the designer within the shortest time limit. It also laid the foundation for my space perspective drawing. I also transformed my experience in interior design, I have accumulated the ability to configure the use of colors and materials. Until later, I began to explore the world of photography, and gained more profound experience of light, shading, tones, themes, composition and creativity. Drawing and color laying      The above life courses and trac...

River side walking path at sunset, was selected to 2021 AAU Spring Show award. It is quite honored and encouraged happing only at my 3 rd  semester in AAU . Beside this, the most meaningful thing to me is that, the painting shows the tranquil feeling of downtown Petaluma, as well as my appreciation of cross passing with Petaluma for almost 3 years so far.     11x14" canvas, study          11x14" color study It is also my first temptation to do oil painting on the bigger size of 18x24” canvas. It happened surprisingly from 11x14” study, I told my instructor Greg Gandy ( he is also one of the excellent artists in bay area) that I really enjoyed the small study, I would like to choose it as my subject matter for midterm project. Thus, I spend a bit extra time to do the color scheme study before start.  There are several challenges I thought which worth sharing here, for example, the accurate perspective view drawing, how to paint the a...

Urban landscape painting  城市風景畫 In the spring semester of 2021, I chose a class: Urban landscape painting. I was pleasantly surprised. Starting from the small town of Petaluma where I live, I visited the small Java Café on the street, the river bank business district, and the railway station, and residential areas. It happens that most of the scenes fall at the time before the sunset. The light is very soft and peaceful, and it also allows me to integrate my love for this friendly town into the painting.    I am very grateful that during this period of MFA, painting study at AAU, Petaluma has brought me a sense of stability and a lot of creative inspiration. I look forward to cooperating with local art galleries and exhibiting a few satisfying views of Petaluma city, giving my sincere feedback to this city. Remarks : The lady proprietress of Java Jack's Cafe', a small cafe on the street, likes my work with their cafe as the theme very much, and she gladly invites me to pu...