New Watercolor by Joseph Chiang – Branches

Nature is like a great composer,

she can always achieve harmony

no matter how she places the branches…

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Watercolor Painting by JosephWatercolor – Central Park Reservoir

It’s a tough transition for me moving for Savannah to New York. In Savannah there are a lot of scenes that have nature blending in with human architectures, which happen to be the subject I like . Obviously, besides Central Park, you won’t find so much natural scenaries in New York…
In the past, I have done a lot of paintings depicting outlines of natural forms, such as branches. Now I also find some architecture given some certains circumstance such as sunset are attractive.
But to paint buildings presents a different kind of challenge; I can’t no longer run my brush strokes as freely as when I am painting branches, because it will make the building look shaky on the picture. And if I paint the way as it is perceived, the building would come out rigid. I want to simplify it and at the same time capture the essence of it, just like how I do the branches; eventually making this boring subject looks poetic.
I won’t say I achieve completely my goal, but I seemingly get the feeling of what I should do to make it right.

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Watercolor Painting by Joseph Chiang

I really enjoyed the 3 years stay in Savannah when I was studying at SCAD. It is an old town and there are a lot of places that makes me want to depict. I liked to just pick a corner where not many people were around and start a painting trying to paint how tree branches, shadows and old architectures interacting with one another.
I still have some problem with capturing the blurness of the shadow…

Watercolor Painting by Joseph Chiang – Mist

The painting itself is blur, but the photo came out even blurer; I intended to make the foreground tree to come forward more, but the dark palatte just let it blend in with the backgroun. Some brighter colors might have helped. The tree on the left was originally sharper, but after I rubbed it with wet brush tip, it become somewhat messed up.[tags]art, watercolor, painting, artist, journal[/tags]

New Watercolor by Joseph Chiang – Evening in Central Park

I paid a lot of attention to the details on this painting. Hence some parts are overdone. But I still love the overall mood of this painting.

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Joseph Chiang: New watercolor series after moving to New York…

The process I am working with right now is adopted from my last work, The Living and Non-Living – a work being exhibited at the senior show which I have no chance to attend and witness due to moving.The process is simple, I lay the paper in a water tank and let water took over the color mapping. Then after it is dried, I add my own strokes on it and try to let both the human factor of my strokes and the natural fatcor – the texture created by water exist together in harmony.

It is seemingly simple, but I feel working in this way, my work can best represent my philosophy of art: the address of the human should exist in harmony with natural and the ability of being adoptive to the given natural environment, that is being intuitive.

I also borrowed the traditional Chinese painting approach and figured out a true extension of this tradition that I have faith in. While combining the western material – watercolor and eastern painting philosophy, it is not necessary to mimic the look of the traditional chinese painting to capture the essence of it. I believe as long as my painting is done in a way that it helps provide the comtemplative mind with a ground of reflection for self-cultivation, it is a successful piece as being an extension of traditional Chinese painting.

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artists strive to find an innovative way of painting watercolor, often get caught up on Skill.

This is a note I did at the beginning of my last quater at SCAD; at that time I was searching for an innovative way to do watercolor. I focused a lot on tring to figure out a different format of presenting watercolor, since watercolor alomost always needs frames and mat to be presented. I want to challenge this kind of reality and I don’t want to be contained by the frames, especially when the frames can cost as much as the painting itself. I don’t think that’s fair to any emerging artists. Young artists still haven’t establish their names in the big art world, and therefore can have their arts to meet up the price of the frame that is measured the same way with other artists.

Therefore, I came up with the solution as depicted on the note; the idea is to use found wood bords as frames. I wanted to find bords that have some evidence of erosion of time with distinct textures on the surface, then put them around a bought, floating frame from Wal-Malt.

After that, I would do two separate groups of Mint Ivy: one being restricted inside of Wal-Mart frame and one growing freely on the found bords…This wass meant to be the continuation of the Mint Ivy work I did at the end of last year…

The plan was never executed though….as the Winter quarter went by, I started to focus more on the exploration of my branch series, and hence came abstract works such as The Tree With Human spirit and Living and Non-Living.

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One Week of My Life

What if the internet and the cyberspace became the majority part of our experience and eventually took over the analogue aspect of our life? Then by showing the screen shots, people can literally experience the real life of one another….

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The featured flash animation is a project I did last year September (from 22nd to 30th to be exact) while taking an alternative media course with Prof. Craig Drennen at SCAD. During the week, the Yankees were picking up their momemtum towards the end of the season, and Hurricane Rita was hitting the United States.

I printed my screenshot manually every ten minutes whenever I was using computer for one week, then putting them together using Flash as a metaphor of the flying-by life. The orignial presentation was a video installation with background soundtrack, in which I projected the animation onto a piece of a facial sculpture made with liquid plastic. The face has a melted look that symbolizes the fact that digital media is rapidly invading our normal cycle of life, and is influencing the value of the human.
Currently I am working on a 6 weeks project, the screenshots are already taken, but my computer is too slow to edit 6-week-load of pictures…= =” I think I would figure out a way eventually.
Well, does this have something to do with watercolor? I think the answer is no, but as an artist that uses computer a lot, I feel I have to get something from it to justify the time it takes from me for painting…
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The Highest Goodness is Like the Virtue of Water

The Highest goodness is like the virtue of water; it benefits all beings yet do not scramble, and it stays at the lowest where all others disdain. Hence it is close to Tao. –Tao Teh Chin.

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Chinese philosophy has a lot of influences on my art works; it makes me want to portray the nature and the humble. It always states about the essence, hence the anicient concept is still applicable to the modern world…