
water color painting


Geogia O’keeffe is famous for her vibrant colorful paintings, mostly flowers, landscape, objects in nature… No one can be untouched when looking at O’keeffe’s paintings. Ansel Adams is a great photographer of the nature and wildness. His black and white phtotos are stunningly powerful to express this artist’s insight of the nature. Despite the different styles and two unique ways to capture the essense of natural beauty and the 15-year age gap between these two American’s best-known artists, they developed a lifelong friendship.
The SF MOMA is now having the special exhibition for the art works from the two - Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams, Natural Affinities. It was such an joyful experience for me to be exposed to those precious and inspiring art works. This painter and this photographer have their own distinctive visions of the natural world, yet they share the same admiration to the beauty.
There are also site specific installation and woodcut prints from Ranjani Shettar, an Indian artis; Robert Frank’s “The Americans” photography, that reveals the life of Americans beyond the polished surface; Between Art and Life: the contemporary painting and scupture collection, etc.


If you go to San Francisco, go visit MOMA, it got those amazing exhibitions that you don’t want to miss.
Ever since the chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul published his 1839 study of simultaneous contrast, the effect that colors observed adjacently influence each other, artists have been influenced by his ideas. His theories (studied in the 2nd course 20B) formed the foundation for a modern color theory that later artists continued to explore. Less known is the fact that he is also responsible for describing a set of harmonious color relationships known as “color schemes,” or “color ways,” and these have become so widely understood, that they are used in many fields of study besides fine art, and can be found in advertising art, fabric, interior, architectural, and garden design. new variations have since been added to his original schemes.
Complement, Analagous and Triad are three different color schemes among all color schemes proposed by Chevreul. The following three paintings are created based on these three color schemes, to show the different effect for each.
Materials: Gouache paint



Presented here are two versions of the digital painting, red mountain. One for oil painting, one for crayon. Tablet and brush tools in photoshop are used.


Paper flower. . .
if only you could sense
the life from my hands
Inspired by the above poem, I created an illuminated letter that illustrates the text. Can you see the letter “P” in this water color painting?