Original Art Stories - Xueling Zou

September 14, 2012 was my http://originalartstories.blogspot.com/ blog's 1st birthday, and I almost got 10,000 viewers here!! But I didn't feel well yesterday :(... Recently, I haven't posted much here, just because I was too busy building my Facebook page, which I just launched in June. I am such a lucky person, and I have already got 160 likes on my page. Now, I would love to introduce it to you, in case you haven't been there and would be interested in being a friend or just checking out my Facebook fan page. Of course your support and encouragement are the key to me developing as a visual artist:)! (Please click the image to enlarge) The portfolio picture on my fan page was the part of my first self-portrait I painted at the end of 2010, to those viewers we haven't met yet, welcome and thank you! My fan page: https://www.facebook.com/xuelingzou , and my Facebook timeline at: https://www.facebook.com/zxling1 I am happy that I have got so many fr

This title was inspired by a Beatles' song. I was introduced to many Beatles songs since I came. This is one of them inspired me, so I had decided to create a piece where this song guides me... Here is the link of The Beatles - All My Loving ( Close Your Eyes ):   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvurnpKjE4 Living in California for twelve years now. Eleven years ago, I started painting, but seldom felt desire to paint the scenery where I live. Not long ago, I made a decision that I had to make myself feel happy about living here, accept it and being accepted. Two Weeks ago, I was so stuck by this piece I was creating, I painted over and over again... it was about 11pm at Friday night, I didn't even want to eat my dinner, still searching for idea how to create this piece to express my own feeling about the half-surreal, California scene in summer. Suddenly, I received an email from a FAA member.  It was the first time she emailed and asked me if I was looking for inspir

I really love boats and architecture as well as nature, though I love to paint portraits too. I believe that I just cannot separate them from our life and emotions. Italy's architecture and the lifestyle of the are one of my most favorite subjects. I would love the introduce some of my oil paintings here, hope you will love them as much as I do, thank you! This piece won the 1st place in the Contest - Impressionism and Post Impressionism Influenced Masterpieces on January 22nd, 2013.  Please visit my Oils - Landscape And Still Life Art Gallery at:  https://xueling-zou.pixels.com/collections/oils+landscape John Orley Allen Tate's poems (November 1899 to February 1979; was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congressfrom 1943 to 1944.), who wrote this beautiful poetry about "The Mediterranean". Here is the link:  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15304