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I like loose painting style with fewer bold brush strokes and bright colors. Not too much details but still close enough to recognize what you are painting.

Lessons learned:

• Use a fairly large brush so you don’t get carried away with detail.
• Try to segment the pear/apple in your painting into large planes of separate color.
• Try to capture the individual value of each plane in correct relationship with the planes next to it. Keep squinting!
• Make sure every plane is a different color.
• You may soften edges between planes but do NOT paint large blends.
• Start with your darkest dark and lightest light.
• Time yourself, for example, 1o minutes to finish a pear/apple, stop when time’s up!

Below are a few apples painted by some artists with a loose style. I am working towards to their direction. Hopefully in the future my paintings will have a similar style.

I was being lazy and busy in the last 6 month. I almost forgot how to paint! I think I should find more time to explor expressive painting 🙂

I created Paint Happy! to record my new adventure in expressive painting. 

I am very sensitive to colors and lights. Although I am always interested in arts, I’ve never taken any art course. The only art-related activity in my daily life might be my hobby, photography. Last week I happened to find an interesting part-time program, Expressive Painting, at a local community art center. I’ve enrolled in this program to explore a totally new area. The course is for everyone, the artistic and the non-artistic alike. Expressive Painting is founded on the theory that the heart needs to express and invent and that learned techniques are not required to be creative. This non-technique method will help you discover your own original, personal style of painting. I am looking forward to developing my art potential and having fun at the same time.

Stay tuned for my adventure of color, form and image where no rules apply…..