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2/21/2014 12:49:46 PM
It's a typical New York scene, a lady with dark outfit crosses Mercer Street in downtown Manhattan, I was impressed by colors of the winter, especially from the trees..
Let's change subject a little, I had a little trouble judging Janauary Bold Brush art contest, because when I got down to top 100 painting among more than 1500 entries, first I thought all these 100 people are winners pretty much, it's very difficult process to choose final 12 paintings. I mean all these artist has different style and seem to have their own world going on. So when winners are chosed by a judge, I think it also something to do with personal taste as well as technical and artist impression. And I do believe some artist gets unlucky enough never able to win for a long time, so what I am suggesting is that artists should not be discouraged by certain art competition,
rather think as partial opportunity, and any artist who wins or lose could become great artist eventually.
I personally was very much surprised by a lot of artist able to establish their own world...yes, same subject matter with many many different style.. My purpose of painting is very simple, making a poetry out of our daily life, but the process could be very complex and sometimes I do get into trouble..
2/20/2014 1:35:37 PM
I used to walk around village of Northshore to get inspired by something or for meditational purpose. Here is the sun going toward sunset almost finishing a day, it was worth to watch, because the color gave me some impact, all I saw that day was yellow and purple color together, it was so quick that makes almost impossible to achieve plein air sketch attempt, so basically I am painting from memories of the color, remebering the goegeous color of the moment.
First, I am not an plein air artist. I am an plein air inspired artist, so I am just an artist in general. Sometimes I try to learn from our nature but a lot of times I am just an artist looking for poetic colors or meaning ful moment from our lifestyle, I am not just landscape artist either, I think I am an artist looking for something very positive stage that has ultimate power, but the power does not come with bold brush stroke or color only, that comes with experience and philosophy I think.
The reason why I brought this is that even a landscape painting is not just copy of nature or plein air style itself, it represent ourself. And what we see and what want to see is two different thing.
2/9/2014 5:05:46 PM
Here we go again, we have brutally cold winter here in New York city, snow is falling every week from the sky, and I have trouble getting rid of all these pile of snow and my drive way is always the place the most accumulated and coldest place on earth. I physically had to prepare for removing all these snows and ice, I have tons of thing to complain..
But I still feels the fresh impact of the first snow this season in Manhattan, NY. This lady was quickly passing by me from streets of Mid-town Broadway, New York. Her face was a little bit redish by cold temprature, and then, I thought "oh, this is good" I seem to get a lot of inspirations by people walking by, they walk really fast and disappears quickly, but I am determined to create something meaningful from our ordinary life.
The warmth is coming out of these people along with shops filled with lights, yellow taxes...
