The art news came yesterday evening, broadcasting on television about a 4-Year-old girl who takes NYC art world by storm. And what has surprised me is not her art talent, but the sales that she received from 3 art paintings hanging at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Artist named, Aelita Andre, an Australian toddler, has become famous overnight.

How much is her paintings received? Within a week, three buyers has already paid a ‘hefty’ sum of US$27,000. Naming it it contemporary abstracts, the paintings are some splatter work. With each art piece priced to about US$9,000. Frankly speaking, I don’t see the point of worth in her art valuation based on a few influence that are factual.

Firstly, both her parents are artists, whom has provided her a strong background and education to groom this toddler to be artistic. Secondly, she is only 4 years old. Expectation from most parents, with little girl of this tender age, will be hoping their child’s art work showcasing in an elementary school exhibition. But not for young artist, Aelita Andre, giving her solo show at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York.

So what worth being paid for these 3 art paintings which, if you believe the hype, is the highest value in age versus art skill proportionality?

This is a totally absurd, as some may have thought. I’m not to criticizing on her artwork; I love art, and it isn’t dead, but its patrons are brain-dead. To add on to the art valuation received, it is no doubt more than enough to stock up 1 year of premium quality milk powder to nourished her creativity.

Unlike the Chinese, there is a proverb that goes ‘hit while the iron is hot’. Indeed, there are good at speculation, and it has proven in every art auction. Just look at recent Christie’s auction “Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art (Evening Sale)” held in HongKong, less than 2 weeks ago. Most of the buyers and artists are from China.

The well-known Chinese contemporary artist, Zeng Fanzhi, with his featured paintings entitled “The Leopard“, has fetched a value of about US$4.7 million. And all proceeds will generously contribute to the non-profit organization The Nature Conservancy.

So as for her colorful paintings considered an artwork of child prodigy, with the help of speculation by the news media? Or maybe it turn out to have mutual benefits for both Agora Gallery in Chelsea and her future fame in the art industry? Has she paints like Picasso, or did Picasso paint like a 4-year-old?

source: NBC New York, 4-Year-Old Girl Takes NYC Art World By Storm

Water painting, as not many has heard of, differs from the commonly seen watercolor painting. This also known as Chinese Ink Paintings on Water.

Perhaps some may have know about the traditional Turkish painting technique of Ebru (also known as paper marbling in other cultures).

Or Suminagashi paintings, the ancient Japanese technique of painting on water to create marbleized effects on paper.
Last year, one of the Chinese artist from Shandong province, China, has created his own style of water paintings. He is no other than Huang ZhuLin, 黄珠琳.

Creating images with the use of colored ink as medium and flat-lying water as the ‘painting board’.

Below sharing two of his featured paintings.

Lunar Chinese New Year is right at the corner of this week. Coincidentally, it falls on the same day as the Valentine’s Day. At this time of the year, it is a traditional culture for the Chinese to use the ink brush to paint auspicious words on red paper scroll. Chinese words painted in the form of calligraphy, signifying good luck and prosperity. Quite often there are framed or made into scrolls and hang them on the wall of their house. The chosen red color for the paper background has its own meaning too. It symbolize good fortune and lucky charms.

To the Western painting art, you will be appreciating the techniques of colorful art painted by artists in the early centuries. Their works look brilliant, and colors are being used to express their artistic view. Different sizes of brushes and strokes, as well as knives painting skill are applied. However, on one key difference from Chinese painting art is that you hardly notice written words or poems on the oil paintings. And it is Chinese calligraphy being the most popular and prestigious in the hierarchy of Chinese art and culture. Totally different disciplines and practice, using many different brush strokes with just one-size brush and black ink on plain paper.

The element of single brush stroke may not mean a lot, however, it is able to form a Chinese character with the combination of many strokes. And four characters in a calligraphy writings are usually referring to words for proverbs. To acquire skills in calligraphy, you will need a lot of patience to learn the basic. With consistency and lots of practice, will one makes perfect on this art.

There are many types of color painting media to choose for your art work. There are acrylic paints, watercolor, gouache, and oil painting; the latter being the most supreme choice media. Just what I have encountered, most beginners may not be able to decide which is best suitable for them. Below you will read 3 common color media that I would like to share in my findings. Namely, oil paints, water-mixable oil paints and acrylic.

1) Oil paints

Widely used by most artists and students for centuries, since early Renaissance. Oil paints are made with color pigments, bind with oils. Poppy, linseed and safflower oils are the most common oils used in the paints, giving the characteristic silky texture and gleaming finish of the paint. Traditionally, paint is applied ‘fat over lean’, starting thin and then getting thicker towards the completion of the painting.

Pros:-

• Highly versatile in its forms, applications and techniques. You can use it straight from tube or blend with other colors. And techniques, include knife paintings, alla prima, impasto, glazing, sfumato .

• Easily retouch or re-work, because it take longer time to dry, especially paintings with thick buttery effect of impasto. It is either you paint over when medium is dry, or to wipe away for wet medium.

Cons:-

• Lots of paintings tools and accessories, like color palette, painting knives, bottles of solvents, and painting easel. Thus, need some floor space catered for storage.
• The odor from mixing solvents need good ventilation in studio room. Some people are allergic, and may cause health hazard when inhale too much.

2) Water-mixable Oil Paints

To traditional oil painting artists, this new media may not be a better choice. However, its a preferred media to those who are allergic to the slightest odor of solvents. Very suitable for one who is working in a low ventilated room. Ideal choice is Winson & Newton’s Artisan.

Pros:-

• Hazardous solvent is not necessary. Only require water, easily available from your indoor plumbing.
• Easy to maintain and clean. Drys faster than traditional oil paints, but not as fast as acrylic.

Cons:-

• This is a new media. Generally, there is no disadvantage and probably the going to last for next few decades in oil color media.
• There is one that comes across my thought. Since it is water soluble, what happens if you are in the midst of painting outdoor and it starts to rain? Would be nice to hear your comment if you encounter bad experienced like this.

3) Acrylic paint

Acrylic paint is pigment dispersed in a film of transparent liquid plastic. Only soluble in water when medium is not dry. To reduced the rate of drying, acrylic paint can be mixed with a retarder medium and extender

Pros:-

• Dues to the characteristics of fast drying, it is sometime use as an alternative for oil paints.
• More durable and color permanency, as compared to oil paints. The color remain true to its originally painted, with least chances to turn yellow, crack or mold as time passed by.

Cons:-

• Fast drying may serve it’s purpose if you are skilled and a quick painter. Otherwise, you will spend more time cleaning dried brushes than to focus on painting. Always keep your brushes wet at all time.
• Acrylic paints is resistant to water once it is completely dry. So how can one get rid of the harden tip that has already dried and clog at the tube’s opening? Simplest advice is… always screw back the cap of the tube once unused, don’t leave it dry.

Although you are reading about color painting mediums, I’m also interested to know your point of view in other choices. At the moment, I’m using graphite pencils as my beginner’s choice. Color painting will be next, once I mastered how to draw beautifully.

Below are 10 simple reasons on Why Painting Reproduction Helps to Improve Learning.

1. It is a proven method in history, basic learning by reproducing paintings.
2. There are nothing to lose, yet more to gain. Even if the result is not pleasing to your eyes, you would have already aware of the basic shape, lines, colors and tone exist in the paintings.
3. Choose a painting you love to copy, and you don’t have to paint one single day in your life. Do u agree?
4. Do you know that there are great artists who love to share their work and allow reproduction for learning? Naming a few great artists, post-impressionist, Van Gogh, and photo realist painter Chuck Bell.
5. Challenges your thought to explore how Old Masters managed to achieve excellent paintings, with limited choice of material and colors in the early centuries.
6. Beside understanding paintings by simply viewing and appreciating, you are also having hands-on practice for painting every elements meticulously. Technically speaking, it improves your art appreciation and widen your knowledge.
7. Analyzing paintings you like, helps to improve your understanding easier. Study and take note of the key area in shapes, color, lines and design. And how the paintings are being organized, related and structured.
8. Overall experience can be more cost effective for learning composition, by just using pencil on paper. Practically for beginners, it is also easier to fulfill self-satisfaction. Makes you go another mile without sweat.
9. As you copy, you will also discover new things to study from great artist of the past.
10. It isolate the learning process of learning creativity from composition, thus, keeping your attention focus and achieving learning more effective.



Three qualities of color in painting artwork consist of hue, value, and intensity. In photography, lightness and saturation are used, whereas hue generally applies to both. Below, I have try to use some illustrations and simple definition to explain the three qualities.

• Hue – The aspect of color that distinguished it from another color. It is easily identify as rich and pure pigment. Such as cadmium red color, ultramarine blue color, lemon yellow color, or emerald green color.

Color Hue for Oil Painting

• Value – The aspect of color that determined how much light or darkness. In other words, the amount of white present in the color. Red color with lower value or too light, will turn palish, instead of cadmium red.

Color Value for Oil Painting

• Intensity – The aspect of color that control the dominance of hue, describing how vivid or dull it is compared to its pure quality. Lesser saturation of blue will turn grayish, instead of ultramarine blue.

Color Intensity for Oil Painting

It took me 3 weeks to think of designing this logo. In actual fact, ideas started to flow in just 4 hours ago. Its is like adding this and that picture, duplicate this splatter, edit the color.. , font of unique style, etc, etc…

My thought was to have it simple enough, yet attrative; small jpeg file for fast loading, and a easy to remember header.

Now its already loaded, up and running! . Take a look here.

I have posted some of my FAQs to help answering common questions from interested buyers.  Below are an excerpts of questions

Why my questions is not answered in FAQ?
What is oil painting reproduction?
What is the worth of oil painting reproduction?
Canvas size selling in your store is smaller, can I request for bigger size?
What is the quality of oil paint color used?
Which types of canvas are used?
How good are your artists?
What is the key factor that you able to communicate with Chinese suppliers?
What is simplest method to clean oil painting?
Is shipping insurance included in your selling price?
Do you offer combine shipment?
Do I have to return the wrong paintings for a replacement?
How do you ensure 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
Does a reproduction look 100% like the original?
How much time does it take to make a reproduction?
Do your artists sign the painting with the original artist’s signature?
Should I give feedback after receiving the paintings in good condition?
What sizes of painting are you offer?

Check out the same link to my FAQs.

Beside this written work for today, I have also realised that eBay did not list out my 9 items I have posted yesterday.. Its more than 24 hours. Without wondering why, i log in to ebay sg. Relisted the 9 items individually.

Next, I also realised that the price of my 2nd 9-sets posting has its price changed. I didnt do it.. who else could it be?… Well, minor change of price by cents.. But if someone buy it and im the one who lose out… So who gain eventually? The bigger dot com company who suck up through fees charging.

Anyway, ebay sg has not yet charge for listing fees.. I hope there will maintain this for next 10 years..

Oil painting on canvas artwork. Welcome to “Color Painting Art”. We focus our interest on oil painting reproductions from East Asia by very talented artists mainly from China, Guangdong and Fujian Province. Skillful and experience in canvas paintings of replica, museum master, people, floral, animals, landscapes, still life, abstract painting, impressionist, wall-decor, and customized works, such as portrait paintings. All selections are genuinely hand-art on the painting. We don’t sell oil paintings from famous artist or old masters, naming a few are Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian or Willem de Kooning. There are extremely pricey and rare, where most are exhibiting in famous museum or gallery. Oil painting reproduction is best described in our listings.

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Oil painting on canvas artwork. Welcome to Color Painting Art. Oil painting reproductions from East Asia by very talented artists mainly from China, Shenzhen Dafen, Fujian Putian, Xiamen Wushipu and Haicang

Oil painting on canvas artwork. Welcome to “Color Painting Art”. We focus our interest on oil painting reproduction from East Asia by very talented artists mainly from China, Guangdong and Fujian Province. Skillful and experience in canvas paintings of replica, museum master, people, floral, animals, landscapes, still life, abstract painting, impressionist, wall-decor, and customized works, such as portrait paintings. All selections are genuinely hand-art on the painting. We don’t sell original oil paintings from famous artist or old masters, naming a few are Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian or Willem de Kooning. There are extremely pricey and rare, where most are exhibiting in famous museum, art gallery or auction. Oil painting reproductions are best described in our listings.

Oil painting is a form of aesthetic expression in which designs are accentuated by representational, imaginative or abstract; created in two dimensions by the application of oil colored media to a flat surface, called canvas. In early 18th century, oil painting was introduced to China, where talented artist started to adopt Western techniques; learning through painting replica from old masters and famous artist. Modern Chinese painters like Zhao Wuji, Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang and Yue Minjun, are topping representatives.

Everyone has different response to color, and it is highly personal, especially when choosing a piece of painting artwork to hang on the new wall. It brings in new color in another dimension. Oil painting is the most amazing artwork that every new interior should not miss out. It simply beautifies with colors from within a hanging frame. The subject is always there, it adds new color and interests on the wall, decorates and transforms a room, and adds a touch of sophistication and elegance to one who appreciate it.

We currently only offer color paintings from China. Specifically, from Dafen (大芬), Xiamen (厦门) and Putian (莆田). As time goes by, we will be adding more artwork from other regions by professional artist who acquire good painting techniques and art style. We do not sell so-called art paper prints or pretentious posters that you can find at shopping malls. However, we do offer artistic reproductions of decorative art, with authentic and genuine 100% handmade artworks on canvas.

All paintings are shipped from oversea, delivery time may possibly take up to 20 days upon payment received. Usually, this happens when there are no stocks, and artist has to spend 4 days to a week to produce the art piece. Also taking into consideration that each painting is colored for several times, for some colors can not be drawn on before the former dry. With respect to its inherent nature, we still have to ensure oil paintings are totally dry before packing. We are also working towards 2 weeks delivery, including shipment transition.

Feel free to contact me on any request for Oil Painting Reproductions.

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