Joan Lok workshop with Sumi-e Society's National Capital Area Chapter

Thanks to all the students and artists who came

to my NCAC workshop in Falls Church, Virginia in January.  It was cold the week before and after, but we were lucky to have a sunny and slightly warmer weekend for our workshop.  We painted cyclamen, wisteria, sparrow, swallow, cardinal, carp, and koi.  It was a fun weekend and I look forward to our next workshop.

How Joan Lok became Joan Chan Lok

My friend invited me to contribute an artwork to a book he was writing.  The landscape instructional book is recently published and underneath my artwork was my name misprinted as "Joan Chan Lok" instead of "Joan Lok".  Neither of us had any idea where the word "Chan" came from.  Anyway, if you see "Joan Chan Lok", it is me "Joan Lok".  For more landscape artworks by me, visit the landscape galleries in my website www.joanlok.com.  That's how I became "Joan Chan Lok." 

Joan Lok won an Award at the Sumi-e Society Golden Jubilee in Portsmouth, VA

Congratulation.  Joan Lok's artwork "Mischievous Adventure" won the Long Island Chapter Award at the Sumi-e Society of America Golden Jubilee Exhibition in Portsmouth, Virgina.  The judge is renowned watercolor master Cheng Khee Chee.  What a fun weekend enjoying the reception and award dinner, plus time painting blue herons and koi.     

Joan Lok's Lingnan Workshop with Sumi-e Society's National Captial Area Chapter

Joan conducted a three-day workshop with the Sumi-e Society's National Capital Area Chapter focusing on the Lingnan School of Painting, May 2-4, 2013.  We had a fun time learning about the history of the Lingnan School, and how to paint fruit, vegetable, song birds and flowers.  A good time was had for all!

Haiku for Hope Reception at Columbia Art Center in April 2013.

Hurry to see the Haiku for Hope Art Exhibition at the Columbia Art Center to raise funds for the Howard County Hospital's Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center, before the arts are gone like cherry blossoms.  My artwork "Le Printemp" is selected as the postcard artwork for the show and is all over the local newspapers and publications!



En Plein Air at Red Rock Canyon in Nevada

Painted with friends and artists at Red Rock Canyon.  Lake Harriet is beautiful, and the rocks are really red!  We also painted the town in the evening (went to the Nugget and Gold Town).  Enjoy the photos.

  

Joan Lok sumi-e demo for Women Artists' Forum on Lunar New Year

 

 

I was invited by the Women Artists' Forum to present the art of sumi-e at their spring meeting on February 10, 2013.  I discussed the differences between the art of the East and the West in materials, subject matters, and composition.  It was also the Lunar New Year, so I painted peonies, the symbol of good fortune, for the demo.  It's a perfect way to start the new year.