Interpretations of Uyghur Artist Abdukadir Dilmurat

Dark Gestures, ink and watercolor on watercolor paper, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

This is about as expressive as I get. It's so hard for me to be wild and gestural. I like it neat. While working on these pieces I was thinking of my experience there, in Xinjiang province, the people, the colors, old town Kashgar, and imagined the shapes and lines I saw. The painting above is not so literal, but the two below are.

Karakul, oil pastel and watercolor, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

Fig Cross Section, oil pastel and watercolor, copyright Nina Leung 2013

The two paintings above are my literal paintings. I took a view of Karakul Lake and simplified and stylized it. The fig painting is a remembrance of the amazing yellow figs we ate there. They had yellow skin and the meat was an orange/pink color, really beautiful, and really delicious.

Eamon's Uyghur Painting, copyright Nina Leung, 2013

Here's Eamon's try at doing a painting like Abdukadir Dilmurat. He received a lot of color and mixed them in his own way. One year olds can be quite expressive!

Travelling with Uyghur Artist Abdukadir Dilmurat

If the paintings of Abdukadir Dilmurat were a place, they would be...........

Kashgar and Karakul Lake, China!!

Objects from Rousseau's Tropical Imagination

Each of these Rousseau-inspired objects have been photographed with a printing of a fish that my boys Gio and Eamon did. It's a Japanese art form called Gyotaku. The images and colors remind me of Rousseau and they make the perfect background for the objects I've chosen.

The flounder above is pictured with a journal my sister Teresa gave me. 

A bass with a turtle pendant I bought at Anthropologie. 

A piranha with an ikat scarf I bought in Khotan, China. 

An angel fish with a wooden decorative object I bought in Kashgar, China.

Another piranha with a bowl of marbles.