Yong Chen's newest children's book "A Gift", which he authored and illustrated with watercolor paintings will be in your local bookstores this Summer. This picture book is published by Boyds Mills Press.
Click here to view the paintings and read about how this story came to live.
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Portrait of people are always my favorite subjects in my paintings, especially painting people in watercolor. After years of doing portrait paintings in oil and gouache, I turned to watercolor. I found that watercolor portrait painting of people is not only challenge, but also interesting. Since each person has his/her unique personality and background, it requires a different approach in each watercolor portrait painting, to capture the uniqueness.
In the years of teaching watercolor portraiture class in the Massachusetts College of Art, I searched for the way to teach other artists to learn this most challenge medium and subject. Here in this gallery I selected eight portrait paintings of the people in a range of different ages and personalities. If you like to see samples of how watercolor portrait painting in progress in a step-by-step process (though they are all somehow different), click here to enter my learn corner. To learn more about my portrait painting process, please click here to continue in my portrait painting commission information.
In this Gallery, I selected these watercolor portrait paintings, include women, men, children, college student, elder, and different skin colors. Besides painting portraits, I also like to paint all other subjects, like fruits, apple, banana, flowers, birds, cats, dogs, and landscape, and everything else. To view some of my watercolor paintings of houses, click here.
