A Restaurant

 

When I was walking down streets of Manhattan, all different sort of lights
was coming out of window, I thought it's very cute and cozy, I also liked
blue-grey tone colors of the street, in this painting, I used a lot of knife
to get all the colors right, but when I finished this painting, I feel like
still some colors lacking..., I feel I really need more impressionistic effort,
like I always thinking in my head.

What is missing in here is that deeper tone of Jewel colors, yes, that's what
I am looking for next time when I encounter this kind of subject.

Waiting for Coffee

 

So, I finally got into coffee shop, while I wait for my coffee, I saw this
girl standing right in front of me. she had some sort of scarf over head
wearing dark brown jacket and apparently checking out text messages
from her phone, I decided to paint this scene as a close up scene focusing
to this girl wearing winter coat,
What I got inspired from here is that a lot of light source coming from
behind while playing with different sort of brown, I had to bring rich
brown colors and black with accent of blue coming back ground.

I make extreme contrast between people and back ground because that's
where my inspiration is rooted from, this light source is very important for
my painting in general, I believe this is very important if you do not want
to give up figurative form for the painting.

Soho Date

These two couple's apparently having a good time in chilly Soho district,
As soon as I enter downtown Soho area, I feel something cozy and
romantic, I can just walk around all day, have a cup of coffee,
stop by some book store and read some book...
I tried to catch a sense of romantic mood in this painting from downtown
New York, as you see a lot of warmth coming out of this town.
I like the unique lights coming out of show windows, also I like the
color combination of Black, Brown, Winter Grey, and the yellow sky.

My purpose of painting at this moment is creating as much stories as
possible from this village.

Seventh Ave

I was very impressed by afternoon sunshine down to seventh Ave,
there is people walking by and truck waiting for loading, I
thought this is simple color story, but there is enough element
of making good painting possible, that's what artist has to do,
any spot, any location seems to be good enough reason to be
subject matter for artist in general,

In this painting, I like to play with cool lights on top of warm background,
because warm air is always coming out from our Earth and Human, and
that also represent a warm welcome for the future happiness.

A Lady passing by Restaurant

It's a sunny day, this lady is going back home on this beautiful sunny Saturday.
This restaurant is absorbing bright sunshine in this pleasant day, there is also
a charming bike is waiting for the ride, everything looks good here... but
there is dark shadows.. this dark shadows create beautiful sunshine, so it's necessary
element in our life, then I am thinking...  there seems to be always deep contrast in
our life, I don't think I have to be this much serious at this moment,
but our life in general has a lot of contrast everywhere.

My question is "Can I take all these issues positively ?"
My purpose of painting is that I try to make our daily life into something positive
and transfer into a meaningful piece of painting, so hopefully viewers can have a long last impression.

New York Street at Night 2

This place is one of the streets from downtown Soho area, people here are in a hurry
to go home and see lovely families and talk about what happened during the day,
also discussing about where they are going to have Christmas party this year,
I heard some family arguing over hosting Christmas party, everybody want to have
party in their home for several reasons, especially when gas price is going up fast
like no end in sight. But this is a happy argument. I can live with it.

I was really impressed by brown tone with yellowish colors coming from this
street, and all sorts of different light is coming out of windows, that different colors
of the light represent everybody's hope to be happy family.

New York Street at Night

As soon as the blue car in front of her passes, she is about to cross the road and to
 buy some decorative stuff for home, the time is now 7 pm getting to darkness
 eventually, here and there lamp lights coming out from upstairs, there probably
teenagers reading books for home work.

These are kind of story made out of this painting, but this story is trying to
explain how cozy this scene is and why I painted this scene, the reason
why I paint this scene is that I love city lights and the mood coming out of
different sort of light color from this city.

The light source also gives me chance for different color breakdown, because
any lights has different colors and therefore this makes abstract attempt
possible, I do not try direct abstract these days but I continuously pursue
abstract quality from the kind of painting I am working on.