Water lilies are one of my favor flowers. Its delicacy, beautiful shapes, and growing in the water always bring me a nice feeling when I see them. This purple lily caught my eyes when we were visiting Hualian in Taiwan in April 2009. It was easy for me to paint the flower, but it took me several revision to come up with the supporting background of leaves and water flow that I am happy with. Here you go the beautiful lilies.
corner of a large water lily pond located in Hualian, Taiwan. The water reflection immediately caught my eyes. I like the prominent dark shadow on the left side and a few dancing darks to support the leaves around the canvas. Your eyes would jump among the lilies and the lights on the leaves. It was fun to paint this one since the composition was well formed by the nature. This painting has been juried and accepted in the Artoberfest Fine Art Show in New Braunfels, Texas. The show runs from Oct 3 through Nov 14, 2009.
This young couple are my favor people in the world - Lindsay & Clifford. They both graduated from University of Texas at Austin and received their MBA degrees while working at an energy company in Texas. I painted this one using one of the photos they took in Taiwan last spring. The strong lights and darks plus the color harmony caught my artist eyes for a protrail painting. Both of them are my art critiques. I often asked Lindsay to comment on my paintings. As you know painting someone you know is very challenging. Yea.. they like this one.
It seems that I had an easy time to paint this one. I came up with the composition very quickly and just got it done. It might be that I had the feeling of art at the moment. I like the posture of the big pink lily and the interesting water flow.
