Tim Loh's Paintings 陸天樞繪室

I am an enthusiast of Chinese Brush Painting and I would like to share my trials and tribulations in learning the craft. I want to document the process, the inspiration and the weird ideas behind my projects and to address some of the nuances related to this dicipline. I hope to create a dialogue and stir up some interest in the art of painting with a Chinese brush on Xuan. In any case, it would be interesting to see my own evolution as time progresses. This is my journal

Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label calligraphy. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2025

Playtime-Second Half

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My spaghetti squash with calligraphy has been drying under a slight weight to prevent the shell from curling up too much.  It is time to co...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Egret taking off

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I examined the painting after the paint had dried and decided that the circles were too neat and tidy.  I was hoping that they would be a bi...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Giving life to the rattler

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The next step in my snake painting was to render the markings of the snake.  These markings are visual clues to trick our mind into thinking...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Gone like a yellow crane

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"去如黃鶴 "  for those of you who doesn't read Chinese, that means "Gone like a yellow crane". Legend has it that some s...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Freeze the balls off brass monkey

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Come off it!  I am not referring to the euphemistic colloquial description of testicles.  Or am I ? I am just recounting my own experience...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

You Bad Bird !

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I was just doodling with my brush, no doubt inspired by the Mi Fu tie that I re-discovered amongst my pile of paper.  I was trying to do cal...
Monday, December 5, 2011

The 3 Perfections of Chinese Brush Painting

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The 3 Perfections ( 3 Absolutes ) of Chinese Brush painting encompasses painting, poetry and calligraphy.  Whereas each of these disciplines...
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Tim 陸天樞
Oregon, United States
Transplant from Hong Kong. Make my living pushing legal drugs. Painting is my Prozac!
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