JLam👩🏻‍🎨

Pretty cool to see this popping up at the V&A

#museum #art

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"Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter." RICHARD FEYNMAN

Maybe this is a better representation in the more correct colors
#portrait #oilpainting

Session 2

Total 6 hours but that’s hardly enough 😮‍💨

Love that I already found actually long pose here in London 🥳

#portrait #oilPainting #portraiture #WorkInProgress #fineart #representationalart

Managed to get some painting in here 🥲 2x 3 hrs pose in a day

…. What doesn’t kill you, makes your eyeballs tiredddd

Pretty sure my first one was better as it’s clear the 2nd one I was wayyy tired 😵
More next week!

#portrait #oilPainting #workInProgress

Managed to find that online after so I shall be checking that out next weekend 😮‍💨

Along the way also found another to check out that’s closer to central London. Getting settled and setting up them routines 💪

Anyone in London? Please recommend more long pose portrait / life sessions 🎨✨

I always love the serendipity of things in information discovery. Went to my first life drawing long pose session in London and a really helpful and nice guy told me about 3 hours long poses as I mentioned I preferred longer poses.

Feeling like i can art again now that I’m outside the burning furnace of 🇺🇸

Trying out some long poses sessions here 🇬🇧 but when you are used to 4 hrs x 1week long poses and they are calling 20min “long” and you’re like lolll stop rushing me 😮‍💨

#portrait #representationalart #realism #fineart

A bit of a #WorkInProgress #floral #oilPainting

Yes, it’ve been awhile. Being in London and surrounded by beautiful things absolutely helps with the artist block thinggggg

#london #relocation #fineart

"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see." Leonardo da Vinci

Equally applicable to painting and to life

Why modern entrepreneurs are commissioning portraits Inside the revival of commissioning portraits among working professionals to capture momentous occasions

Well apparently it’s a thing now…

#portraitPainting #oilPainting

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Oil on @raymarpanels panel, from life, at 7am 🤪

Multiculturalism. Here we have a Japanese product with British branding, of a drink with a rich lineage from Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, China.

#oilpainting #painter #stilllife #fineart #representationalart #painting #art #artist

Life is short, figure out what living means to you, it’s not something easily copied.

The mountains in Beijing are especially beautiful. I guess being in China means I should get some Chinese style in.

An attempt at ink painting, the reference.

#painting #calligraphy #inkpainting

Awww thank you for the support 🥰

Currently #WorkInProgress #oilpainting

Really great having a good teacher to learn from. Learning a lot from the last couple weeks and excited to finish this

#art #figurePainting #fineart #oilpainting

This other plein air from Yorkshire

#pleinairpainting #oilPainting #fineart #traveling #fineart

A bit of pleinair in Yorkshire 🥳🎨👩🏻‍🎨

#oilpainting #pleinairpainting #fineart #pleinair #artist #painter

There’s a reason why John Singer Sargent works large, these tiny facial features are hard 😆 Note to self, life sized or gtfo… also fine grained canvas and not my landscape roll 🫠

Maybe 60%?

Whenever people graduate from traditional atelier they do a self portrait, so here’s mine 🙂 (soon, on my own terms, in my own time, finding myself)

#WorkInProgress #oilpainting #selfportrait #portrait #representationalart #fineart

The thing about painting, often time with value compression, you don’t make something look darker by adding more dark colors, you make its surrounding lighter. But when to do what is what makes a master, a master…🥲

#WorkInProgress #oilpainting #selfportrait #portrait #representationalart #fineart

Some progress since I’ve been back. Thankfully there are spots in my art studio with similar lighting and as I’ve been trying / planning to do a self portrait from life I already had a set up.

There’s at least 2 weeks left of work on this but coming along slowly 😝

#oilPainting #selfPortrait #art

My favorite part is actually the palette it’s such a weird shape and I was surprise i got it right(?) fairly painlessly. I made the mistake of opting for a small portrait here… brushes are not small enuf for them eyelids rn 🥲 #WorkInProgress #oilpainting #selfportrait #portrait #fineart

My bff Lyly lives in Atlanta and was able to take these pics for me at the exhibit opening 🥰

My biological family may not want me but thankful I have good friends and my art 🙂

Yay I’m on the poster too 😀 #oilPainting #fineart #artExhibit

Indeeddd, tho also weird how these things work… why couldn’t it be something easier.. like mindlessly watching TV or something 😆

Ahh oil painting, my one true love 🥲

Been meaning to do a self portrait, i guess these things just hit you when it’s least expected.

I suppose oil painting is really my lifeline and passion..

#selfportrait #oilpainting #WorkInProgress #portraitpainting

“It is perhaps important to have a beloved pet as early in life as possible - so to understand and experience the inevitable grief of loss early on. It only gets exponentially worse as life goes on.”

Interestingly enough, this painting was accepted into a juried exhibit in Atlanta and at the same time also an online exhibit with the AAPL indeed i should paint more….

#oilpainting #fineart #artexhibit

Emergence: AAPL Young Artist & Associate Artist Members Online Show 2025 — AAPL In this online show the incredible talent of AAPL Young and Associate Artist Members are showcased, allowing art enthusiasts from around the world to experience the essence of human experience through...

This small study was originally for a larger painting for my grandma. However the problem with painting from photos is that there’s just not enough visual information as from life. Should I ask her to sit for me for a portrait?

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Having a case of artist block, taking pictures of my framed babies for encouragement 🥲

I love physical art

#oilPainting #portraitPainting #stillLife #portrait #fineart #classicalRealism #academicMethod #representationalArt #art #painting

Extricating oneself from this toxic soup is excruciating and time consuming, but alas - I just want to live - a life of my own.

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The healing continues.