Discover a Treasure

oil on gesso panel (18"x24")

(detail)

(detail)

 (undertone studying)

(Sketch)

Finally, I did a mermaid painting which I planned to do two years ago. My first time heard about the Mermaid story was from the Disney animation...the wicked octopus witch made me had a nightmare when I was a child. Then, when I was in high school, I found the original novel of the Mermaid, and then found out the story actually did not have a happy ending....SAD for the whole week. 

Anyways, hope you like this painting and I like the orange fish the most.

Princess Butterfly

Happy New Year!! 2013

 I am staying at home and working on the painting....

Oil on panel (16" x 20")

(undertone study)

 (working in progress)

 (working in progress)

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*Bonus*

 my extreme trouble cat, Cathy.

Blossom flowers bringing wealth and fortune

Hope all the best for everyone! 

Work hard and play hard!

 (digital)

This is the new year card I did for 2013! In chinese culture, the blossom flowers would bring wealth and fortune, so the chinese are used to buy flowers in the beginning of the year.

My Book Binding Class

Yeah! I know how to bind a book by myself now. Although I had already graduated and got my BFA, I think I need to flesh up my mind and keep learning new thing. Thus, I attend to the book binding class, it is a nice class.  Here is some photos of my mid-term project, I used my illustrations for some of the pages and did a resin decoration for the cover.

p.s. I updated the website http://phoenixchanillustration.webs.com

~Little Christmas Elf~

The Christmas card that I illustrated was arrived yesterday!
They are available in my etsy store now. Let's Shop!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/116493962/the-little-christmas-elf-christmas-card

Happy Holiday!

RUN!

oil on gesso board (17" x 22")

I have learnt a lot of things from this painting. When I need to create a place/environment by my own imagination, I have to locate the shadow, reflection on the right place in order to make it looks believable and it is very difficult to do. Although I got some references to help me out, it just requires my brain to keep thinking the relationship between the light and shadow all the time. 

This painting is going to be finished this week, I still need to tone down some parts...such as the bird at the top right hand corner.

I also took some working process photos to record my progress, but I think I delete the photos accidentally. Sad!

Hope I can move on to the next illustration next week.

color comp for the story...

Recently, I just keep working on the sketches and color comps of the story that I wrote. The above color comp is one of spread of the story, I think I will do the finish illustration in oil or acrylic. After I finish all the sketches, I will let you know the whole story. For this illustration, I like the frog a lot... Do you notice where frog is? Zoom in, and find it out! haha!

Besides, I got commissioned jobs! YEAH! I will do my best. Thank you for my client.

p.s. Boosko, when I saw your website was down...I cried. Hope you can recover and be better soon. Miss you~