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

Monday, September 26, 2011

Salvage Operation

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I was demonstrating how to paint insects; not in the capacity of being the principal in the painting, but rather a supporting role.   In my ...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

PS Taming of the Silk

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As I mentioned in the last blog, my painting on silk was not colorfast and I had to display that behind a glass pane, which is kind of a pai...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Taming of The Silk

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A good friend of mine , a Hua Yu ( meaning members who paint), gave me a roll of silk for me to paint on.  My friend does beautiful Gonbi st...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Let The Sunshine In

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Traditionally we have  to mount paintings done on Xuan to a substrate for viewing and display. I have explored substrates like canvas ( my ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Frustrated Apprentice

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Some people would differentiate art from craft in that the former requires originality on top of the skills which are required by the latter...
Friday, September 9, 2011

The Dark Side

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I found a picture of a painting by some artist in the Ming Dynasty.  The painting is deceptively simple, willow branches.  What can be more ...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Multnomah Falls Again?????

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It is one of those days, hot and muggy. As I picked up my feet and placed one in front of the other, dodging the red dragonflies that had ...
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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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