More landscapes digital paintings

One can sit at the computer and whip out these fictitious landscapes in no time. I did "Winter" and "storm in a Northwest City" in one afternoon. It is just so convenient.

Pretty Picture?

Don't like what I did. So, here is the new version. It is so easy to evolve a painting using digital painting, changing canvas aspect ratio, changing composition...etc.

Impression of Utah

Two years ago, we went to Utah to see my sister and brother in law. My brother in law, Dr. Lin, took us to Moab and arranged a very memorable trip to Arches and Canyon Lands. I painted these two using digital painting. The second one is a little bit Diebenkornian.

Just want to paint pretty picture

I get more and more into digital painting. Just want to paint something pretty, I did this seaside picture pretty much in 3 hours.

I did print some of my digital painting on canvas. Although it still does not have the feel of "substantial" of a real oil painting, it is not too bad.

Monk and Bird 2

Yet another version. Cathleen said that I drew the monks head like a Japanese mang-ga. Click the picture to enlarge.

Monk and Bird

I am into painting monks these days. There is a story about Buddha and a vulture. Here is the short version of it. Buddha saw a vulture chasing a pigeon for a meal. He asked the bird not to kill. The vulture said "it is easy for you to say. I need to eat meat to live". Buddha rolled up the sleeves and cut his own flesh to feed the bird. I suppose that this story is the origin of the funeral practice in Tibet where they feed birds with the flesh of the deceased.

After I drew the theme using computer software, I found a discarded canvas and a few cans of enamel paint in my garage. I just quickly painted the theme in color.

Painting Monks

Quite a while ago, I drew this realistic monk portrait describing the "un-monk-like" character of this fee collector, hired by the government, in a temple in China.
I got more interested in painting monks.
I did the second digital drawing, using Artrage software, trying to use just lines, except on his head.
I did a digital painting of a group of three monks using the same software. I used oil paint brushes, knife, crayon, pencils, eraser (on oil paint!), airbrush, etc. It is a freedom that the "physical painting" do not offer. Also, the digital layers allow me to try out different things without destroying the stuff I already painted.

It is quite fun to do them. And it takes much less effort to do these than to use the real paint. I am sending them to Costco to print out large size images and see how it looks. They also offer printing on canvas surface. I do not know whether the inks are archival quality. Perhaps not.