• Landscape with Flowers

    Landscape with Flowers

    This painting is a good example of how I like a balance between entropy (let the ink and color takes is course) and control. Adding the little figure…

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  • So Many Nudes

    So Many Nudes

    I sketch models four hours a week. I have never considered that a key part of my artistic output but I enjoy the challenge of sketching with Chinese…

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  • Contempary Chinese Art

    Contempary Chinese Art

    When I describe my art in chinese for a chinese audience, I usually call it contemporary chinese art. I use chinese brushes, paper, and most importantly, chinese techniques.…

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  • Abstraction

    Abstraction

    I don’t have many paintings that are purely abstract, which in my mind means no attempt have any narrative image. I consider this painting a cityscape because of…

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  • Am I too cynical to create beauty?

    Am I too cynical to create beauty?

    I have been translating and illustrating classical Chinese poetry for kicks. I strive for English translations that are good modern poems, in the hope that poems written many…

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  • Laws of Color, Physics and Painting

    Laws of Color, Physics and Painting

    My effort combine to words with images in my paintings have led me to think about the properties and rules of color. I learned that one of Newton…

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