Portrait of a dog
Month: July 2018
Red sails in the sunset
Today’s work.
Some old pencil portraits
Some early sketches
Last year, I rediscovered some of my old sketches I created with pencils and watercolor during my middle and high school years.
Napoleon’s grand army on its way back from Russia: This sketch was from August 1, 1993 when I was in 8th grade. I sketched this on my notebook with pencil and watercolor. I used a reference picture from a book on USSR history, the details of which I don’t recall.
The following one is my own portrait using graphite pencil and watercolor from July 24, 1995.
My elder brother’s sketch using a blue pen.
Countryside sketch using pencils
Camping at Chippokes Plantation
Our campsite setup at Chippokes Plantation State Park in May, 2016.
First Apartment
I came to the US in 2007 as a graduate student and this painting portrays my first apartment building in Brookings, South Dakota where I lived for two years. I have good memories living in that apartment as a student. The building was dismantled after a few years and it now lives in this painting and my memory.
The car in the picture has its own story. Two other students in that building abandoned that car after it broke and it sat in that spot for the entire time I lived in that apartment. That’s why the snow piled up around it never got cleared throughout the winter.
Bonita Lake, Mexico
Banana lover
My 3-year old is a true banana lover.
Oil pastel portrait of my 3-year old son. I tried to portray his 3 favorite things in this painting: favorite color (blue), favorite fruit, and favorite toy (dump truck). This is on an 8.5×11 inches Canson watercolor paper (140 lb) using Mungyo oil pastels. For drawing the truck on his t-shirt, I used oil paints.
Kauai island, Hawaii
Sunset over water
Here are a few paintings portraying sunset over water.
Morning walk
Morning walk with boys at College Landing Park in Williamsburg, VA.
Foggy forrest path
Boating on a calm lake
An old barn house
This is based on a picture I took of an old barn in Indiana state while driving on I-64 W toward St. Louis.
Playing on the beach
I painted these beach play activities of my 2- and 6-year old boys based on several pictures I took of them playing at the Jamestown beach in the summer of 2017.
Rocky Mountain River
This is a recreation of Robert Warren’s”Rocky mountain river” painting from his book “Guide to painting water scenes”. The original painting used oils and I used oil pastels.
