Notes on Practice -- Short summary

As a photo-based painter, I use photographs as reference. Photographs help me to finish my paintings. Photographs for me is a start point from which I can get the general composition, color. I prefer creating my own images which are different from the original photo.

I think that photographs are very useful while painters sometimes have limited ideas to start with a painting. All the photographs which I use are taken by myself or searched online. There are two main series of my paintings -- my life and Rock & Roll. The series of 'my life' includes the details of my memory throughout my lifetime. This is quite like a record of my life. It includes the clips of my memory. Memory which we hold by ourselves is immaterial and personal. Painting it brings me a chance to remind about this certain memory. Photographs help me to remember them. What I usually choose to paint are nomal things like cups, cupboards, flowers. All those can be seen in everyday life.

I think one of the important parts of painting is the connection between paintings and people. It is not only the relationship between painting and the painter but also the conversation between painting and audiences -- What people can get in these paintings. How people understand these paintings. Different people will have the different point of view of on one thing, or the world. The differences of the understanding on paintings between painters and audience are interesting.

The series of Rock & Roll is more focus on the possibility on colors and compositions. I choose photos online. And I only use the general color and shape from the photographs. I am more focusing on the brush-making and the color-matching.