So guess what. After many months of searching, I finally found and bought the painting supplies I need to start painting again. It was a lot harder to find supplies as Zhuhai is still a developing city, an immigrant town. It took some time to find things in general, and what I couldn’t find meant trying to find it in Hong Kong. I decided as my first painting project that I would give oils a try, after all, I had only tried it once in high school. Normally I like water colour and acrylic painting.

Now before I go any further, I should warn you, I’m a novice at painting at this point. I get inspired often but rarely get around to actual painting… Which is why I wanted to start up again and be more disciplined at it, now that I have the time and space ( ok, this space thing is short lived once we move again.. but that’s another matter). I’m trying to live out the “practice makes perfect” statement, ok, well not perfect, but good enough in my own eye at least ;) I can tell I have a far ways to go with getting comfortable with the medium, the drying time, then composition. I do however like how oils are saturated and blend beautifully.

This one is the first and it was just done on a whim, no composition or planning, just picked colours I felt like using or had.

test one © kaishin chu 2009