by yimiris | Dec 3, 2019 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
Happy holidays! We are offering 25% off for books and video lessons until 12/06. Please enter code HappyHolidays for checkout. How to create narrative paintings (part 3) This is a follow-up post of the previous two posts (links below) and part 2 of case study...
by yimiris | Nov 13, 2019 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
This is a follow-up post to the previous post about how to create narrative paintings. In this post and the next, I’m going to share my experience in creating Taiwan’s Forefathers – Reaching Shore in two parts: The first part introduces the conceptual sketch, pencil...
by yimiris | Nov 2, 2019 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
Narrative painting is the most challenging genre in realistic art. It’s labor intensive and time consuming. It requires a solid foundation of drawing and sketching and adept portrait painting skills. It’s challenging and painstaking to create a narrative painting but...
by yimiris | Dec 19, 2018 | Narrative painting, Oil painting
Miners’ Lament is the latest narrative painting that I finished. The inspiration for Miners’ Lament goes back all the way to my time in China. 《礦山悲歌》的構想起源很久,源自在大陸時期。 Prior to 1980, I worked at Zhaoqing in Guangdong where there was a medium-sized coal mine outside of...
by yimiris | Sep 3, 2018 | Other
I am a strong advocate for life drawing and painting because direct communication with the subject is so important in fostering the artist’s creativity and interpretation of light and color and enriching the painting experience. However, there was a time in my life...