Streets of Soho

Of course, we walk by shops of Soho almost everyday, a lot of times we
forget to realize the beauty and attractions of this town, and when you are
working in Manhattan, NY, I am sure you understand what I am talking about,
you are busy with work and I am busy with my own work, but one day,
You see an artist painting of the same boring street, you realize that there
is something positive is going on. Suddenly you can see that this town
is valuable and there is certain colors that no other city can show us.

What I am trying to do is to get the essence of the city by painting as many
piece of New York as possible, hopefully, one day, people realized that
this whole process is very meaningful..

New York Sunlight

 

 

 

I am sure a lot of people including you noticed the sunlight hitting the walls on street,
I was impressed by that strong sunlight, usually last about an hour, but I felt like
this day was extra colorful, full of yellow tone, this light source is becoming
very important element of my painting.
What I am trying to do here is that making a colorful story out of Manhattan, so
these people on the streets come to real life.
Of course, I am not trying to catch exactly the moment, I am trying to make a
beautiful Poetry out of daily life.

Saturday Evening

Almost toward Sunset, this lady was apparently heading to a party, because it's Saturday
What makes me feel interesting is that I felt like there was certain colors at that moment,
of course, an artist can create colors of their own, but the truth is colors are impressive,
only the whole process of creating a mood is impressive enough to others who views
a painting. In order to make good painting, I first painted with brown tone first,
and then, I tried to adding up interesting colors, and see if the mood is following,
my method of painting is Bold Brush and then finish with palette knife.

Morning Shop Open

It's just one of those pleasant day, when I was walking around New Port shopping
district, I encountered this beautiful lady going into her shop, it's one of very
routine moment of our daily life, but I witnessed a glimpse of inspiration
coming from morning sunshine, I am sure all others felt the same way I did,
from here I know what I have to do, take couple shots of photos and go
for painting, the difference of original painting is that it captures the moment
such inspirational and colorful way so what we sees in our life gets very valuable.
And, those brushstrokes and texture give you extra vivid moment !

Extraordinary Night

There was time we all talk about what is going on in the city, so I was only 10 or 12 years old,
we used to play soccer after school in the afternoon, and we used to go out a little after dinner
for a walk, I felt everything surrounding me was positively mysterious.., there was people
walking around looking something romantic, there was show window lights here and there
attracting people !
, and a crescent moon that evening !
Everything was mysteriously beautiful and cozy !

And here I am struggling to make ends meet everyday decades after all those Dreams !

 

 

Ordinary Night...

One good thing about a painting is that nobody knows exactly what artist is thinking or
why they paint, so there should be some mysterious part of painting that one can
never explain. Sometimes, paintings can go differnt direction from what artist innitially
thought, even Pablo Picasso said one time " my painting always
coming out different at the end"

There is an apparent attempt my painting starts with colors, because colors represent my deep emotions. By the time, I build up structure, I go for line drawing, from here character of the painting decided, and artist sometimes hesitate because of the reason to paint.

My recent study of New York is about abstraction from nature, the real message of my painting
will not be completed without abstract quality.
I am really excited about my Manhattan series because it seems closer and closer to what I am
trying to do and possibility of color is unlimited.

What I am trying to with my painting is always remains Mystery but that's exact reason I paint.
Hopefully, My ordinary night turn into extroadinary night.

I have a lot of love for city, especially for Manhgattan, NY..

When I was working as a textile designer about 20 years ago, I used to

walk around Madison Avenue after lunch to disest, I enjoyed a lot of window

shoppings and a cup of coffee from nearby coffee shop, I always thought

there is a sense of positive side in the city, I don't mind if some people

put this as romanticism...I imagined myself I walk around city with a beautiful

girl here and there with hand by hand, but I usally had a lot bigger

dreams about this mentally than some actual physical form...

 

Let's go back to even more..around 1975-90, those high school and college years,

I always enjoyed working on outdoor watercolor painting sketches, I used to meet

my friends and go out making a watercolor painting and walking around beautiful

old town of ancient city, this city is such an old historical city that has rainbow

color all over the place because of the age,

I didn't mind living and working in this city, but there was always something

missing...at least in my mind, part because my brothers taught me like

there is big city in USA and you can achieve your big dream, only if you are able to go 

there...and when I was even younger, I was able to read a lot of novel

such as "Little Women", "Adventure of Tom Sawyer", "Miracle on 34th Street"

etc.....so these kind of positive thought accumulated in my mind overtime..

I have developed a lot of romantic and positive spirit so that I felt like

there is some place( spiritually) that is extremely positive one

 from time to time,

but I cannot explain what it is.....

 

Anyway, in recent years, I am measuring the possibility of making connection

between the one physically what I see and the beautiful spirit that I try to obtain.

and I know this process is very possible with the help of beautiful music, the music

that has a lot of Rhythm.