Portrait of Crab Apple

This is basically continuation of Sap Green, Magenta and Indigo series.
The image is a branch of a crab apple tree but it became a still-life by putting gray background.
I love the way green mixed with magenta and magenta mixed with indigo. I feel like I am playing in the mud. I think it would be perfect if I put a blackish ornate frame...

"Portrait of Crab Apple", Oil on Canvas, 30x24", 2009

Colour Inspiration II

I found this image on a Japanese magazine. Immediately I saw it as a combination of Sap Green, "Q" Magenta and Indigo. I pulled out the old photograph of snowy High Park and applied it.

Here is the completed painting "Approach". The coloration is rather spring than winter but I love to have white in that combination.

"Approach", Oil on Canvas, 36x24", 2009

Colour Inspiration

"Sumach in Tibetan Wind"
Oil on Canvas, 36x36"

I have been working on "Sumach in Tibetan Wind" for the last 4 weeks.
The inspiration of the colours for the painting comes from paintings of James Gasowski that I found online. (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/James+Gasowski/21301.html)
I rarely use blueish green against yellow but it was a challenge to use it effectively.
Here is a sample of Mr. Gasowski's paintings. I was drawn to this painting for its balanced use of golden tone yellow.

James Gasowski "From the Garden 2"

Riders on the Storm

It was 1990, when I flew to the US for the first time to study.

I spent a long dreadful rainy winter in the dormitory of the small college in Lacey, Washington.

One spring day my friend asked me to go see a movie called "The Doors".

Next summer, I spent time in LA and then moved to Tucson, Arizona to start the University.

Yellow Autumn

Last fall, High Park was more yellow compare to the fall 2007,which was rather reddish.
One of the things I wanted to paint was an umbrella of yellow leaves.
Sunshine comes through and creates this warm, yellow atomosphere.

This oil painting is 48x36" and available from www.skartist.com.

To be or not to be...

I am working on 5 cat paintings at the moment.

This cat is/wants to be the coolest cat ever.

He is/wants to be/tries to be a hero.

Here he is talking to Yorik the cat jester.

Yes, he is Hamlet today.

Process of Snow Scene

Here is a sample showing my process of painting.

Over the last two years, I rarely painted any snow scenes.

I really don't know why I didn't. Maybe the colours I was using at the time were not meant for snow scenes.

Or may be I didn't feel like painting in all white.

The few snow scenes I painted last year I

wanted to express the landscape in silver, or silvery gray.

However, they didn't really get me going.

I guess monotone wasn't my thing.

This year I focused on the light.

"Light" and "space" are the two things I painted.

I think I can continue with this series.

The painting is 30x36" and will be available shortly.