https://video.wixstatic.com/video/0be795_395246e337a64d588ad7a32a705b1dca/360p/mp4/file.mp4 I had never embroidered but I always thought if I were to use needle and thread, it would be in the form of embroidery. Over the many years of painting on silk I had come across a few examples of the GU school of Embroidery but nothing really stuck in my mind. One day I decided to stick a needle through this painting silk and to my surprise it seemed more than DOABLE. All i knew about this ancient style of embroidery was that it was done on a painting and often the painting was only partially embroidere ..read more

Room Screens | Overstock..Here is the link to room screens. there are so many many styles, sizes, and materials that you will either go broke because your eyes were bigger than your pocketbook or you will find just the right screen to embroider your masterpiece on. I am working on three oriental screens and I have never felt it overwhelming. Looking at the screens now as opposed to their beginning the rewards are building. There are a few cheaper screens which are in fact the ones I bought and they ran between $58 and $48 US dollars. Overstock makes sure you get them quickly and undamaged. I a ..read more

Sounds so ominous PRESSURED and BROKE. Certainly I am not the only one to say this. How many of you artists wish to climb the ladder higher and higher with their art but are finding it difficult when everything has to be PRIME. I just saw even my weather channel is pushing to give me better and what, more accurate weather if I become a prime member. Seems kind of unfair doesn't it? This prime thing was not bad in the beginning when I was an Amazon prime member and maybe my online gallery was prime because the freebies don't get anything. Only 10 paintings could be uploaded instead of unlimited ..read more

About 3 years ago i bought a highend computer and an Oculus Rift so i could paint in VR. i waited years for a sale. i never tried virtual reality and didn't know what is was. Tomorrow i make history. well VR art makes history but i have my own. At 70 i'm the oldest virtual reality artist I know of. It is not age that should determine what you do. If you want to carve or paint or dance or sing and you still have physical capabilities to do so, you DARN WELL BETTER DO IT. In my case because I jumped in to the world of VR albeit blindly I was able to get in on this at the start. Digital painting ..read more

Creating art for me is as natural as breathing or eating. Probably because I have been at it for 60 years and in the last 5 or 6 years I doubt I have missed even one day without painting something. Sometimes more than one painting. Until talking to my friend Angelo it never dawned on me that people new to creative endeavors like painting and drawing were amazed at the very act of creating art. I listened to him describe the feeling of having the mark or color come to mind and then he grabs it and guides it as he 49. Or senses that it is a mistake and should not be in the painting. The awe beco ..read more

How many times do you have a day of creative desire planned. You wake and the day feels right. Nothing is happening that you know of and ideas are finally flowing freely. But then it happens! The phone starts ringing. Visitors are at your studio for coffee and a quick sneak peek of your latest works. And to top it off, an unscheduled event like computer failure or a forgotten doctor appointment brings your creative day to a close. You are left with coffee long gone from cup and heard muttering ..AGAIN ..read more

I hear so many artists bothered because they have no inspiration. How can one not have inspiration? I liken it to those who get bored. I can not imagine boredom . go volunteer to help others if your own life is boring. And if an artist is uninspired than you must learn to paint uninspired. By this i mean paint something every day if you can. Try to put away your excuses. I am speaking from experience. Some 55 years of it. Excuses and waiting for the big inspiration can drive you into an artist's block. But if you look around you and paint a chair, the view out a window, a photo you took. Or u ..read more

For over 50 years I have painted , drawn, or carved my way through life. And can not forget photography which has opened new avenues for me such as the world of virtual reality. WHAT NOW? Or is there a need to ask this question? Throughout art history artists have come to ask themselves whether their art should be put into draws or onto museum walls. For some the decision may have been decided for them by a collector who put them on the map. Discovered them. Others made their own decisions. Do I continue creating and having an occasional exhibition in a gallery of unknown name? Do I decide my ..read more

As it was Once upon a time . Once upon a time an artist somewhere took an iink filled brush to hand and painted.. did he paint or draw? If he was in the schools of Western thought he drew the picture. If in the schools of Eastern thinking, he painted the picture with brush. An interesting difference as well was the age old plein aire idea that if the landscape wasn't painted on location it had to be from a photo and not natural. The Chinese landscape masters did neither really because they were able almost spiritually to take brush and paint as if they were there or had been there before. Toda ..read more

The world of virtual reality or VR brings about many new changes for a traditional Chinese painter like myself. No paper or brushes or pigments/insticks are needed. Every new section of painting changes the previous section at least some and usually dramatically. The perspective, size, and composition an artist may start with can look like you have a new painting in seconds. Nonrecognizable even on occasion. And when for instance i paint windows and you are peering in 3D into the window to see what i have done there is a peeping Tom type syndrome one can not help but feel. Try painting in vr ..read more