Store Opening!

Looking for art prints and gifts? I finally set up a Store page! Select prints for now, limited and open editions, and a quirky tote bag, and more to come!  Thanks for checking it out!

http://xiaufong.com/store.php

Japan Cinema: Creative Spotlight

Thank you Japan Cinema for featuring me in Creative Spotlight! Read the interview in which I talk about all my deepest darkest secrets!

To Emerald City

Have you read the previous post Follow the Yellow Brick Road?

The opening is tomorrow night, and I have been helping WonderlandSF hang all day, and spent the final few hours painting around my piece.

Not the greatest photo, but if you want to zoom in on the detail, stop by sometime! Although the opening reception is tomorrow night, the exhibition will be up for about a month. 

So check out the previous post for the addresses, times, and more information!

How to Somewhat Effectively use Couch Space

1. Never sit on it.

2. Attach a small pockets to the arms (I have one small red one and a shiny pink one). If you have more random pockets, attach. The more the better.

3. Seat space = safe earthquake cushion zone for printer and other stuff.

4. Place items behind couch, items below couch, items on top of couch.

5. Install an awesome paintbrush holder onto couch back.














Yeah, it's an old resistance strap from a fitness ball, and it can be adjusted to fit my couch! I finally finished stitching on some canvas and stuck all my brushes in it. No more brush canisters tipping over, spilling brushes all over the place ha!

Also, I have a show coming up this Wednesday featuring cityscapes. It is April 11th... check the shows and events tab (located in the top menu) in a few hours for information and to RSVP.

Or wait until a few days later when I will post information about it.

Animal Stampede Forecast

If you haven't already, enjoy unique scenes of the city at Wonderland SF!


This show will soon be replaced by new art (title hint for the next show). Get up close to the actual paintings there and see what cannot be captured by the photograph! Get a sense of the actual size and scale of the art there, totally worth it!

There are many other things to see too including fashion and jewelry from creative local designers, books, and art prints!

New Names

I went ahead and renamed all city lights and candy city images. It got a bit boring naming the images all the same and with numbers. Search for your favorite painting and check out new and exciting titles!

A Few Days to Finish a Few Dozen Things

Exactly as the title says.

Here is a detail shot of one of the paintings I am finishing up.

The disadvantage to viewing art online is you cannot really get up close to look at the brush strokes and textures. I might just start posting detail shots of various paintings. As always, you can click on the image and then click again to zoom in for a better look.

In the future, computers will have a hologram option that will enable viewers to see the whole actual painting and rotate it 3-dimensionally so that the textures can accurately be portrayed... one day...

Plastic Sleeves for Prints

When I am not painting or drawing, I package prints or work on hobbies, or other side projects.


The plastic sleeves I use are 8.5 x 11 inches and fit my prints perfectly. Most of the time. Until I get a package of sleeves that are a quarter inch off! What the hell, a quarter inch is a significant measurement difference!!!

It is supposed to look like this:

Not this:

At least it is a quarter inch too big, and not too small. But still, really!?!?So I just adjusted the size of the mat board and it looks fine.

Watch out for that...

By the way, prints make a great gift! The holidays are coming up ;-)

Attack of the Palette Knife

Apparently you can slice your finger pretty bad with a round tip palette knife.
Got enough blood to paint a face of utter dissatisfaction. I won't lie- the eyes are my blood, but the mouth is actually red sharpie.

Beyond the Horizon

Juggling acrylic painting, oil painting, drawing, and other activities, there is just too much to do!

In the process of making a lot of stuff, and while painting, I was greeted with this pretty mini brush-stroke scenery.

I love it when art just happens.

There will be a new page added to the top menu, can't wait.

Preparation

Preparation can take a while. Depending on what I am preparing for, it can take a full day or two. Stretching and gessoing multiple large canvasses, or researching anatomy, or taking photos can take time. If I take all the prep work into account, I would say the finish art pieces are the result of 50% research/prep and 50% painting/drawing/doing/making the actual art.

After being sick for a while, the last few days have been days of recovering and prep work! Canvasses, sketches, art supplies! Here are sketches of previous work... recognize which pieces they go with? On to the next sketch!

Changes are Interesting!

Because the galleries on my website have recently changed to a slideshow format, I have rearranged the order of my work to show the newest and latest painting as the opening image. This is only for the Concrete and Concept galleries. This way, you would not have to keep clicking to get to the latest piece, and also, you can check back and see any changes made right away! Changes are interesting!

New cityscapes and drawings just done and over with, and more to come.

Yes, changes are interesting. Once in a while I love to sketch in ballpoint pen. And I like to sketch wood grain.

Art on Walls and Online

Hey everyone!

The shows went great! Mischief at StudioGallery has lots of great art hung up and Opposites at WonderlandSF was a party!
I don't have any photos from the Mischief show, but got a few from the Opposites show:

I don't want to give away too much because you need to see the art in person! But the last pic is my piece. It was my first time doing installation work, and I love painting on the wall.

The shows are still up, so make time to check it out! They will be going on for about a month from the opening. See the Shows and Events page above for specific dates.

My website also just got a bit nicer for the galleries are re-structured! Thanks to my friend who helped me out with the galleries, you can now view all the artwork on one page instead of in separate tabs.

That's it for now. There will be a new addition to the menu of pages above! Illuminate Your World will be coming soon!

Changes

The various pages I have on this blog being on the right side of the screen really bothered me. I needed to select a new template so that they would show up better as tabs on the upper section of the page.

I am making a new page, soon to come! Form a Fighter will be under construction for a little bit.

I may design a header sooner or later so that the title for my blog is not so borrrriiinng.

Please bear with me.

Tree Roots Have Consumed Me

Carnivorous tree painting finished! I am to upload it soon on the website. Ok, so the trees are not really carnivorous... The painting is called "Dance from Below." Look out for it on the website once I get over my laziness to post it, and when I am not distracted by that shiny kettle of boiling water. Time to get coffeeeeee

What's happenin?!?!?!

Sketch sketch sketch, draw, draw, draw, f**k up, erase erase erase, draw, draw, scowl, draw, pouty lip face, draw, erase, sketch, coffee.

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