Xiong Xuan  Melancholy'S small-island  studio  2016-2020

Windowsill-Purplegray, 40 by 60 inches, purple colorpencil on paper, 2016 Autumn

Destiny-Peach, 40 by 60 inches, pink color-pencil on paper, in the series of drapery-study, 2019.

Demo-5, 240 by 60 inches, orange colorpencil on paper,    2022

 Prayer, study after Leonardo, 40 by 60 inches, 2019 winter.

Door-Street-Musicians (part one) 60 by 80 inches, 2019 Feburary, Glenn Gould always my favorite pianist, I love his Goldberg Variations

Destiny-Blueberry-2, by  40 by 60 inches, light blue pencil on paper, 2021 August

Windowsill-Lightness, 40 by 60 inches, blue colorpencil on paper, 2016 Autumn

Heaviness-2, 40 by 60 inches, pencil on paper, 2017 Spring, trying to catch the blue-light.

cast-drawing 2020 July

Demo 4 , 240 by 60 inches, pencil on paper,      2022

This is the third time doing master-copy after Leonardo, I was trying to figure out the gesture of Baby Jesus, 40 by 60 inches, pencil on paper, 2018.

Blackberry enlarged horizontally, and then enlarged.

study after Leonardo for the fourth time, pencil on paper, with different material and different technique, learning how important to make the underpainting sufficient,  on 2019-November


study after Barge Haulers on the Volga, 60 by120 inches, pencil on paper, 2023

Demo-2, 60 by 200 inches, pencil on paper, 2019 December, a continuation after Demo, just imagined my surroundings, some peers used to be my classmates, some artists I used to watching dumbfounded, until someday they all fading away from my mind, care so much, but also struggling to be independently flying by myself, I think I have found my path, all sudden everything becomes relief sculptures, self-teaching process accomplished so far. 

Destiny-Orange, 40 by 60 inches, orange color-pencil on paper, 2019 Spring

7th floor sculpture classroom, with my unfinished self-portrait in clay, I used to dream of it once  in 2012, and this drawing done on 2019 November. 

Destiny-Blackberry, 40 by  60 inches, pencil on paper, 2019

study after Rapheal, 60 by 160 inches, pencil on paper.

The first time learning after Leonardo, as the models for Demo, 2017, got precious lesson from great masters, at that time, Michelangelo has a solo drawing show at the Met, sometimes I need my dream to be with me, at least imagine someday I have a show like that also, silly, or could be true. 

Desrtiny-Green Lemon, 40 by 60 inches, colorpencil on paper, 2019 winter

Symphony at my studio 2022

Demo-6, 240 by 60 inches, green colorpencil on paper,    2022

Musicians - 3  60 by 240 inches, pencil on paper, based on orange bedding, practice what I learn from LEONARDO.

Pencilwork

Blackberry, 120 by 240 inches, pencil on paper.

2020- October

"Demo-1", 200 by 60 inches, pencil on paper, 2017, about 7 months lasting till done, a very hot and intense summer time. I was questioning myself: what if saint Mary and baby Jesus posing for me, could I draw any eager? This piece based on my memory and imagination, to honor my former teacher Mike, thank you for giving. He used to teaching drawing at the Art Students of League in New York City, I happened to watch him demo twice in that brief summer time, everything just so fast, a lot got erased by time, only fragments stay in mind.

master study after Leonardo 3   2018

Demo3, 200 by 60 inches, pencil on paper,    2021

Street Musicians -2, 60 by 280 inches,  2019 summer, there are so much I couldn't do anything beyond my drawing, I do care those musicians on the streets, but when I realized that so little I can help except giving them a "stage" to play just on my paper, love to art never becomes less, no matter rich or poor, and care becomes another level of existing, remember the movie "Pianist" well, sometimes daily difficulty could be even more rough than war, when it becomes everlasting, every single day becomes so serious heaviness.

Destiny-Strawberry, 40 by 60 inches, red color-pencil on paper, 2017 Spring

Destiny, 40 by 60 inches, pencil on paper, 2016 summer

Destiny-Blueberry, 40 by 60 inches, pencil on paper, 2016 Autumn

Heaviness-1, 40 by 60 inches, pencil on paper, 2016 July.