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

Saturday, December 2, 2023

It sank; "Necessity is the mother of invention"

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This blog doesn't have much to do with my paintings per se, but rather to document of how to mitigate a problem that shouldn't have ...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Will it float?

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It is time to frame my two pieces of gesture paintings.  These are paintings done on thin, delicate, translucent Xuan paper so I really to t...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Rat and Baby Ox

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I have done a rat painting before for the Year of the Rat.  I had a rat climbing over a red square Fai Chun with the Chinese word "Bles...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Family Zodiac

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I tried to do a painting each Lunar New Year using the Chinese zodiac animal as subjects.  A member of my extended family suggested that I c...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Mounting the Gazing painting 歲月人生

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There's a chance the "Gazing out the window" painting might get accepted into an exhibition.  I can't put off mounting the...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Painting on silk again

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My last encounter of painting on silk was fraught with plenty of obstacles.  I was being stubborn and tried to use silk fabric, instead of t...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Face Up or Face Down?

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To the uninitiated, Xuan paper is just a regular piece of white paper to be painted or written on.  The more astute observer would however n...
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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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