Spring and House Original Acrylic Painting

I have been busy with my young daughter going to primary one for the last days. Now everything settled down and I have the mood to do painting again.

Welcome New Moon Original Acrylic Painting

Working on this Welcome, New Moon painting these days. It was inspired by a scene from movie iprian Porumbescu - Balada. I like the music and try to watch the movie, although I don't understand anything apart from what the lovers are greeting the new moon: "Welcome new moon".

I really like the movie.

Spring Time Original Acrylic Painting

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I finished the painting today. I like the very busy colors. It's spring time.

It is very difficult to take the acrylic painting photo. It always has glare due to the size of the painting. It measures 24 x 30" /60 x 78cm.

I put another photo here which as less glare in the right.

Less glare at the right

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Singapore has no Spring, but I do find differences in the trees near my home through out the year. The trees blossom only during this time in the year.

They are full of white small snowy flowers. It's such a pleasure to walk around the road.

Spring Time Original Acrylic Painting Work in Progress

Spring Time (Work in Progress), 24 x 30" /60 x 78cm

In my home town a beautiful coastal city in China, it is in the beautiful Spring time now. I miss Spring.

Singapore only has one season which is Summer. I can only view photos of Spring and they inspire me to paint a flower mountain area with small houses. A house near sea and mountain is my dream house.

In the Flower Mountain Original Aryclic Painting

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I finished the painting today. It is not easy to take a good photo because the painting is quite big with 24 x 30"/60 x 78cm.

I like the sweet pink and blue and pure white. I feel that it would be very nice to decorate a bridal shop. It will fits well with white gowns.

In the Flower Mountain Original Aryclic Painting

I have been busy with decoration with my house and gardening recently.  Finally I got some time to repaint the In the Flower Mountain. I painted this painting long time ago and am not happy with the color used. This is the version that I am happier with at the moment.

Just share some cute plants that I have bought.

 This is called Dischidia and is planted on a snail shell. It has little pink flowers. I hang it on the garden wall and it is very sweet.

This is wrightia. It has white small flowers that give very nice smell. I read that you can propagate it by just cut a stem from it and plant the stem into soil. I would like to try it so that my balcony will give wonderful fragrance everyday.

The Red Tree Original Acrylic Painting

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I finished the painting as the first thing in the morning. I adjust some colors to make it more autumn look.

I like the texture from cutting the board.

I set up painting studio in my balcony now. It is bright and nice with fresh air.

Size: 6 x 7.5"/15 x 19cm
Medium: PVC foam board and Acrylic Painting

The Red Tree Original Acrylic Painting Work in Progress

I feel very attracted to the texture of the PVC foam board that I cut to created relief printing plate. For example, the poppies plate:

I thought it would be very nice to paint on the board using acrylic painting. It will have the texture from the cutting.

This is what happened to the "The Red Tree" painting. It has the beautiful texture similar to the one that is created using texture medium.

The Detail Texture

The PVC foam board is about 3mm thick. Thus it is quite nice to be framed as a usual acrylic painting.

Sunset and Maple Leaves

I finished the sunset. I found that when using dark colors, acrylic tends to dry much darker than it should be. The bright part near the sun is not brighter enough after it gets dried. I am not planning to sell it.

I saw a beautiful photo of maple leaf and just want to paint it. This is a small section from the photo. For some part of the light, I use clear water and scrub it. Also, it is such a pleasure to use spattering here with dirty paints.

Tile: Maple Leaves
Watercolor on paper
size: 6.5" x 9, $35 + $5 S & H

Sunset

I am trying to develop something that is beautiful and touching, not only pretty and cute. I think I concentrated too much before on pretty and cute things. I love pretty and cute things, but at this moment, I want to produce grand paintings.

Acrylic on stretched canvas, sides are painted, ready to hang

Size: 9.5" x 12", $50 + $9 S & H

Spring Mountain

This is an ACEO and my first time try of this art format. It is so small but fun. I carried yesterday's work on spring and created this spring mountain.

Acrylic on heavy watercolor paper of 140lb
Size: 2.5 x 3.5 (ACEO size), $25

Sea View and Changes in eBay Singapore

This work is inspired by the following photo:
I guess many of us using photo references for our work.

Today I just found that Singapore Ebay starts charging fees now. It used to be free. I didn't sell anything through Singapore Ebay. The viewing is very low. Basically very few Singaporean are buying art through Singapore Ebay. I guess I'll stop listing in Singapore eBay now. But I'll continue to do in US or other eBay.

Acrylic on acrylic paper
size: 8 x 12, $65

Small Houses 6 and Artist Style

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This is the last one of the series. This house is in front of a peaceful lake.

I love to paint some more, but I think I'll do it again some other time. Now I want to explore some other interesting ideas. I cannot stick on one thing for long.

This reminds about an issue that I'm always thinking. What is the artist style and how do I have one? Will I have one for someone like me always attracted to new possibilities?

Today I found that one artist that I like suddenly posts a painting that is totally different from her usual style. It is so freshing.

I see some artists who always use one style and you won't get bored with it. One of them is my favorite artist Marcella Paliekara. I like her delicate and dreaming style and always find surprises, interesting and beauty in her new paintings.

There are certain qualities in the style I guess that make the style work. Some style may be surprisingly beautiful initially, but with long run, it gets bored. But some will not.

Acrylic on heavy paper
size: 5 x 11, $45

Small Houses 5

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This small houses painting has no tree, but with fields of flowers.

A typical Chinese painting of spring is a small village surrounded by sea of the plantation of yellow flowers for eatable oil. This painting is inspired by this type of paintings instilled in my mind when I was just a little girl.

I am thinking of stopping at 6 of this series. But not sure, maybe more. I really love to paint them. I think I am just a little women that loves cute and adorable things. Not like some of my male artist friends, they like to paint city space with high buildings and sea space with big boat. I love small things.

Jane Austin wrote small intricate feelings in very detail that makes you smile from your heart. Leo Tolstoy wrote about war and passionate love that makes you breathless with tears. They are all beautiful, aren't they?

Small Houses 4

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This is fourth of the small houses paintings. Again I use some flower patterns in the front. I hope you also find these flowers are charming because I really really love them.

Acrylic on heavy watercolor paper
Size: 5 x 11, $45.

Small Houses 3

SOLD

This is the third of the small house series. It is a wooden one. Recently, I develop liking of patterns specially the oriental ones. I found that patterns are so powerful and beautiful. The flower is a type of pattern that I really love.

I was thought of painting a big one today. But after design the picture, I feel the size 5 x 11 still the best that suits the topic. Now this is the third one with the same size. I plan to paint at least 2 more with the same size and also about little houses.

Just a note about buying from Dawanda. My price of the same painting in Dawanda is 30 euro. I thought 1 euro is $1.5. But actually it is about $1.4. Thus, it is cheap to buy from my Dawanda shop.

I try to list more in Dawanda because it is free listing there.

Acrylic on heavy watercolor paper,
size: 5 x 11, $45

Small Houses 2 and my art selling story

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I am working on another large piece of commission work today. This is another small house I painted while waiting for the large work paper to dry. I guess I can have a small or little house series soon. I already have three including this one. Adding 3 more will be good enough to have the series.

As indicated in the title, I'd like to share some good news about selling my art.

I am putting my paintings in Etsy, Dawanda and RedBubble. Dawanda is a new site comparing to Etsy. I didn't sell anything there yet. But, the good thing is that the administrator there somehow picked my three paintings to be displayed in the first page of art, in the acrylic paintings section, at the moment. Because of that, I have many viewings to my paintings.

In RedBubble , there is one group called Masterpiece Art. It contains the best paintings from the participating artists. My Girl Making Tea was chosen as the group icon at the moment. Well, I just checked again, it is replaced by some other painting just now.

All these plus the customers that want me to do commission work are great encouragement to me.

As long as I can create new and beautiful work, plus some recognitions somewhere, life is beautiful.

Size: 5 x 11, $45

Small Houses

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Having painted the horizontal sunflower and pears, I found the irregular size of painting is very interesting.

This is a long small painting. I always like small houses. They are so cute and adorable. Once I was planning to paint a small house series, but was attracted to something else. I guess I just need to paint them when I am passionate about them.

Acrylic on heavy watercolor paper
size: 5 x 11, $45

Red House

All along I want to paint something simple. This image is always in my mind. Today finally I set to do this.

Acrylic on paper,
size: 9 x 12, $45