Lucky

latest work

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in 3D

this is exceptional although it makes the point about the eternal truths we have come to know conveyed through mediums that last through time. My wonder is "what would we know of Jesus or Budha if their words had been digital?" probably nothing........

Painting a Scene of a New York City Street by Karin Jurick

gotta love painting to old Deano. uses a single brush for the whole painting. neutral dark imprimatura, kinda like painting on black velvet. doesn't do alot of blending. good perspective. never see these folks load their brush, makes for a magic touch

Qiang Huang painting still life

good long demo. warm imprimatura. concise modeling. cool light warm shadows.

Singapore Artist Oil Painting Class Online Demo

gotta love this guy's work

Singapore Artist Ng Woon Lam Floral Oil Painting

well done instructional video

"Laddy the Handsome Rooster" 8x10, oil

Pucini Singing to the Choir, 14x16, oil

The Consideration of Calligraphy as Sculpture

My darling partner Betty's, niece, Mira, explained to me a little about oriental calligraphy and of course I can't remember all the details but the conversation affirmed that their is an entire culture and a large part of the world that has the wonderful ability to think of the written language as a visual language of pictures or ideograms, fascinating. what an intrinsically artistic culture that must be as compared to our lineal alphabet inherited from the easterly direction of Sumera.
I've often signed things with my name followed by a quick cartoon of a horse head. I ramped that up to an ideogram to look like the above illustration. Now I have it in mind to explore what that would look like in a 3 demensional piece of sculpture. probably welded metal.
After taking a workshop from master brush builder Glenn Grishkoff, I made myself some brushes using bamboo handles and various brush materials. These images were created with ringtail cat hair.
I find contemplating brushwork to expand upon the western process of picture making. "Seeing" is one thing but implementing the "Zen" of the brush stroke is another consideration entirely. I find on 'youtube' demonstrations of chinese landscape painting that reflects the inherent consideration of the brushstroke as well as definition of a landscape done with black ink filters the effort of landscape painting down to its essentials. To combine the two i.e. occidental and oriental landscape techniques is a challenging aspiration.