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.

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.