"Twosome"

7"x5", oil on canvas board

I did "No, No".
I painted over on the painting below.
I usually starts with the intention to fix little tiny bits and often ends up messing up whole painting.
Hope I improved the painting this time!? Or, just a different painting!?
Many times, if I live with a painting for a while, that tiny spot doesn't bother me anymore.
When do I get wise? Instead going over the finished painting, just paint another one!!

I did this painting to enter the DWP Challenge.
DWP Challenge is quite FUN!!....
different style, different artists....
getting some comments on the painting entered ....
getting connected with other artists...

"Pink Flowers II"

5"x7", oil on canvas board

Seems like I am so obsessed to paint these pink flowers lately.
All the hillsides around my home is covered with these pink flowers. Whenever I walk my dogs, I pick handful of them. They are so beautiful....
This is my third attempt to paint them.
I wish I could get the elusiveness of these flowers in my painting....

"Two Lemons"

7"x5", oil on canvas board

I applied thicker paint on this painting. I like how brush strokes is casting shadows.
The camera didn't catch the freshness of colors properly.
The actual painting has a lot more vibrancy.

"Another Self Portrait"

8"x10", oil on canvas board

I did another self portrait.
Same pose as the other one, but I approached lot simpler and quicker.

"All About Me"

8"x10", oil on canvas board

This is a self portrait for the DWP Challenge,
"All about Me".
I had fun to paint my self, looking through the mirror set by the easel, depicting quite eccentric character of me.

"NYC Girl"

8"x10", oil on canvas

This painting is done for "This Week's DPW Challenge: The NYC Lady Challenge"
A reference photo was provided by DailyPaintWorks(DWP).
My main concern for this painting was to give abstract quality to the background reflecting the shape of her jacket and long diagonals created by her leg and the white ruffles, so pulls the viewer's eye to the object which she is focusing.
I used the warm and cool grey palette.

Reference Photo

"Pink Flowers "

6"x6", oil on gesso board

"Wild Pink Flowers "

6"x6", oil on gesso board

It is spring time in LA.
All the hills are covered with wild flowers: poppies, ice plant, daisies... I picked some pink flowers for my daily painting while I was walking dogs this morning.
For this painting, I added some graphic elements to the back ground. Also I used split complementary colors; Red Violet to BlueGreen and YellowGreen. It was quite challenge to do this painting. Subtle change of color and values in the flower, composition and design, hue and value ... evreything.

My puppies, Lucia and Sydney taking nap.
(Sydney is male, Lucia,small one, female)

"Red Roof "

10"x8", oil on canvas board

I'd like to share a painting I did on one Saturday for a month ago. This is a view from the hill at Pierce college looking down San Fernando valley toward North.
I live far at the mountain ridge on the right top corner of this painting.
I feel good with this painting, still I think I treated too literally. While I was painting this, I was thinking Cezanne. I am quite interested in Cezanne's composition. I wonder that any influence of Cezanne has reflected in this painting. Well....

I love the beginning of this painting posted below. It has spontaneity and abstracted quality I always seek. I labored hours more from this stage. On such a small size of surface. Why!?

Below is a photo I took that afternoon. My painting is done in one afternoon on the spot, not painted from the photo at all. But see how exact my painting is to this photo. It is scary!!
Only thing I did is I tried to frame the camera as same as my painting when I was taking the photo.

"Two Tomatoes" -sold

6"x6", oil on canvas panel

More twosome tomatoes.....

"two by two"

6"x6", oil on canvas panel

"wedged"

6"x6", oil on gesso board

I am quite happy with this painting; The composition, reflextion makes this painting unique, I think. The mix of realism and abstractness of suface is creating allegory.

"Azalea IV"

11"x14", oil on canvas board

It is so interesting to see the gradual changes from the first painting "Azalea I". I am going to do more of this approach from now on. I was excited when I added Red into back ground. ( I didn't have any Red in my setting)

"Azalea III"

11"x14", oil on canvas board

"Azalea II"

11"x14", oil on canvas board

"Azalea I"

9"x12", oil on canvas board

Recently, I am trying to do the different approach with composition and colors in my painting. More abstaction rather than just copying what is there. I am quite happy with this first painting of Azalea. So I did three more paintings of Azalea.

"Girl with a cat"

8"x10", oil on canvas

"A Messenger"

6"x6", oil on gesso board

"In The Mist"

6"x8", oil on canvas

"Tangerines "

6"x8", oil on canvas board

"Blue Rhapsody "

6"x8", oil on canvas board

 I did a painting of roses against blue back ground today. Without any artificial, spot lighting, only natural light through the window behind me. I wanted the background 'Blue' stays 'Blue' without getting affected by the color of artificial light.
The controlling value and color temperature of Red oil paint is so tricky, since they are transparent. Especially when you paint such a beautiful roses.... Ahhhhh!!!

"Together" -sold

6"x6", oil on gesso board

"Away from Heat2"

6"x6", oil on gesso board

"Away from Heat"

7"x5", oil on gesso board

"A Wild Sun Flower"

6"x6", oil on gesso board


I wanted to paint this jar since my last birthday.
My daughter brought a juice in it for me to the park. Anything related with my daughter is beyond ADORE always!! Also wild sunflower... They are around hills since spring time, everlasting. I like this painting how it turned out.

"Zen Moment"

6"x6", oil on canvas panel


This is Korean stoneware tea cup. The milky green color of these tea cups is very unique with Korean ceramics. An interesting contrast of subdued green and subdued red in this painting is creating a 'Zen' moment.

"Procession"

6"x6", oil on canvas panel

"Moving Out "

6"x6", oil on gesso board

I am moving out, Mom and Dad!!

"Me, Californian Golden Girl"

9"x12", oil on canvas panel















I love California;
the weather, spaciousness, carefreeness, ethnic mixes, all the variety it offers.....
I have been living in California for 40 years.
I feel I am a true 'Californian Golden Girl', even I am not a hotti on the boogie board at the beach.

"Are You Going to Share?"

Sydney & Lucia
7"x5", oil on gesso board


These are my puppies. Sydney is about 20 months old, male, tan color.
Lucia is female, gray. about 1 yr old, newly adopted. I thought Sydney migtht not like to be an only child. Both are Rescue Dogs. Beautiful Mutts!!
Lucia always follows Sydney and watch what he is up to.
This is my very first animal painting. I was not sure how it was going to come out. But as I was painting, I realized that the same principal of painting applies to any object.