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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 30 H x 1 D in
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The first piece that begins my exploration with unconventional compositions. Jonathon, who was the model for this piece, and I were actually taking photos for another piece that I was doing. But I've always been fascinated with capturing moments in time, and I was intrigued by the lighting that happen to fall on him. I also wanted to create a feeling of movement and chose to make the figure go out of the frame. That, along with rendering the smoke being exhaled, animates the figure. I also used a good deal of palette knife, especially on the pants, background, and hand. The very fine detail is rendered with a brush. This piece is also framed and ready to hang.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 30 H x 1 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Calvin Lai's art is a mixture of medicine, meditation, and personal growth. He found early on that drawing was something he loved, and to make a picture appear lifelike became his goal. Through constantly drawing, Calvin’s work began to breath, and his fascination with value and perspective led him to become a student of realism. Eventually, he moved from where he grew up in Los Angeles to San Francisco. There he studied drawing and printmaking at San Francisco State University. In 2008, he enrolled in the Academy of Art for illustration, but began painting instead. He found that he preferred the fine arts over commercial illustration, and now works as a full time oil painter. Since then he has continued to develop and refine his oil painting skills. Lai’s work has been shown nationally in galleries, group exhibitions and juried shows. He has executed a large number of commissioned portraits over the past several years, and his paintings have appeared in national and international publications. Throughout his career, Calvin Lai has expanded his focus from figurative and portraiture to encompass a variety of subjects such as still lifes to the San Francisco cityscape. Now he has no borders to what he chooses to paint, and he is driven to capture everything around him through his paints, brushes, and determination.
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