Snow day in Spring Street

 

When I was walking around downtown Soho area for subject matter,

I was encountering the First snow of the season just in time, at this time

snow was pouring in to the city from in the morning, I feel delighted

to see snow because it give me a lot of inspirations, first, our family

me, my wife and my daughter noticed unique Christmas colors on Empire State Building

from distance, the Red and Green lights from top of the this building was shining with

a little different patters, this Red and Green lights was good contrast with White lights

coming from top of the Chrysler building, these two buildings are the most

beautiful and symbol of the New York city.

 

when we arrived 14th street, there was Art and Craft festival going on at Union square,

there were lots of artistic crafts such as mosaic designed lamps and wooden sculpture,

and a lot of jewelries, we were happy to see all these pretty stuff, and headed to

downtown Soho area, by the time we decided to walk, almost everything was covered

with white snow, I took a lot of  snap shots around this village, one thing I noticed was

warm lights coming from a lot of store was good contrast with cold snow coming down,

and people walking on this snow filled street...there is something very unique

quality of coziness and romantic mood, it's not easy to describe with word, but

there is something very positive spirit going on here, it's my duty to capture or

create this mood by working hard.

 

 

Village of Lambertville

 

 

Today, I want to start this blog with other artist I admire,

the person is Fern Isabel Coppedge. All I know is she

was female artist who painted so many landscapes around

Pennsylvania border, I was truly impressed by her painting,

especially her use of bright colors, the deep primary colors associated

with snow colors, if you look at her painting, you will see

there is strong colors, a lot of small houses covered with

snow, there is coziness and there is dreams for generations

to come. 

 

The reason why I brought this artist is that this artist suddenly remind that

she painted a lot of landscapes around here, and time has passed over

100 years, I can easily feel those old masters walking around this town.

 

In this painting, I tried to bring up those spirit of this historical town

regardless of it's outcome.

Autumn Leaves 2

 

This pond is located in Arboretum, Locust Valley, NY.

We used to go out for a walk at Saturday morning or afternoon,

again, I am using background colors as part of the painting,

I tried to get interesting Autumn colors as well as

effectiveness of Abstraction and 3 dimensional effect as well,

sometimes coming out great sometimes coming out bad, but

I think this one came out good side.

 

 I think this painting is effective because there is some complementary colors

showing here, complementary colors are very effective on Paul Gaugang's

painting usually but those are also looks good on a lot of great artists painting.

Gas Station

This gas station is located at the corner of on the way to my home, Locust valley, NY.
I feel like I am approaching somewhere there is a lot of darkness surrounding this
gas station with mysterious lights coming out of this place, looks like this station
is pretty old fashioned, these subtle lights represent curiosity and mystery of
our life. I thought this station is perfect to study colors of the night, night colors
are very intriguing itself, sometimes looks very lonely, sometimes could be
extremely happy also, that is why I keep study about colors of the night.

At the same time, I am looking for effectiveness of abstraction from night colors,
there is unlimited possibilities of abstraction with night colors, abstraction means
satisfaction for my self regarding subject matter, so my study of abstract by
using night colors continues.

Boy's Play 2

Boy's playing under dark shadows of Manhattan remind me of recalling something else,
it leads into metaphysical form...this is rare scene I see in Manhattan, usually there
is a lot of people in this town everywhere, but sometimes there is nobody in
entire street, boy's playing but somehow we feels lonely, this loneliness is part
of my painting from time to time, some people make connection with Edward Hopper
but, honestly my loneliness comes very natural and always here.

In this painting, I like to play with brown tone colors with minimal accent.
If you see real painting, those red letterings in Restaurant sign is much more
visible and effective. And the sky is more pale yellow than it appears here.

I feel that boy's play here represent myself or someone in a sense.

Boy's Play in Manhattan

This boy was playing skate board on late afternoon in Midtown Manhattan,
and Sunshine was so brilliant that makes everything sharp contrast,
there is some area,  street feels like almost empty quiet and that leads into
almost Metaphysical phenomenon.

This painting is all about impressions, this strong impressions lead into
my color interpretations, I interpret color as one color as I mentioned
before, this one color makes everything possible to create certain emotions.

And I like to simplify a lot of things, if I don't,  My painting will be busy
and loose certain characters.

Window Shopping

 

Two ladies walking around downtown, there is brilliant lights coming out of

show windows, it's just so attracting that they cannot ignore those items

from inside, it's window shopping.

In this painting, I try to beak apart all different color spot to make

this kind of mood more interesting, I also made interior more

abstract geometry to make more intriguing.

I would say these different color spot represent musical inspirations.

 

So, this painting is about happy moment of our life.