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About Me
- Walter SangChul Lee
- Rowland Heights, California, United States
- Certified General Appraiser (CA, NV, AZ), Oil painter, Poet
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Walter in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Photo: Flamenco Dance in Barcelona, Spain
Dynamic tap dance entails the gyrating body language.
Paint: Belly Dancer
Oil, 9 x 12 inches
Paint: Gondola in Misty Venice
Oil, 12 x 9 inches
Photo: You will be Jazzed in New Orleans
Bourbon Street, French Quarter
Photo: Aberdeen in Hong Kong
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Aged wooden boats and modern high-rise condos
Photo 1: Pipa and Erhu Peformance by Walter Lee
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Photo, 2008. The band of young ladies peformed in Shenzhen.
Photo 2: Painting Colonade by Walter Lee
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The colonade stretches from the imperial summer residence to the entrance of the Xiaoxitian Temple.
Photo 3: Munching Alley by Walter Lee
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Photo, 2008. As a visual reference for my poem "China We Face, I. Beijing," people enjoy eating "street food," small pieces of meat on skew, standing around a trash bucket in front of a snack stand on the alley. One skew of meat costs only 13 cents (one Yuan) as a bargain price.
Photo 4: Quartzite Pinnacles by Walter Lee
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Photo of Yupi Feng (EoPilBong or Imperial Writing Brush Peaks) in Zhangjiajie National Park, 2008. It is more than the Grand Canyon.
Walter painting plein air in Shenzhen, 2008
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Portofino complex in Shenzhen is an entirely westernized world for foreigners. The beautifiul environment there is top-notch with new commerical and residential guarded complexes.
Photo: Heavenly Alpine Water by Walter Lee
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BaoFeng (BoBong) Lake, Zhangjiajie, 2008. Mountains and misty sky submerge into the lake.
Walter on Great Wall in Beijing
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Photo in Beijing, 2008, The Great Wall is a great fitness center demanding extremely strong leg works. What a tough wall to patrol up and down 45-degree paths.
Nightly HongKong by Walter Lee
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Photo, HongKong, 2008. Waterfront is lighted by high-rise buildings.
Romantic Guilin by Walter Lee
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Photo in Guilin China, 2008. Li River runs through Guilin just like the Seine.
We Were in Ancient Xian
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Photo in Xian China, 2008. Misty morning hours near a Drum Gate in the backdrop.
Paint: Listen to Me Mom II
Second picture in progress
Walter painting in Capri Island, Italy. 2007
It was very lucky that Art Gallery (Galleria Personale) owner/ painter, Antonio Palomba, allowed me to paint at the gallery overlooking Piazetta, Capri Island, Italy.
Champs-Elysee Avenue in Paris, France by Walter Lee, 2006
Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches, Donated to alumni club and exhibited in Vook's Gallery in Seoul
Vook's Gallery Invitation
Champs-Elysee avenue is exhibited in Vook's Gallery
Paint: Late Afternoon in Montmartre, Paris by Walter Lee, 2006
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Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches. After a sprinkling shower in the afternoon, a bright sun light shines through a low-rise buildings on Place du Tertre. Temperature is about 74-degree perfect and air is fresh enough to enjoy outdoor dining. On the front left is the largest restaurant of la Butte, La Cremaillere 1900 in an elegant Belle Epoque decor, looking out onto a lovely, shaded, flower-filled courtyard garden.
Paint: Piazetta Morning on Capri Island by Walter Lee, 2007
Oil on gesso/ marble dust panel, 9 x 12 inches. Paul & Joline Cailler collection
Lobster Boats in Boothbay Harbor by Walter Lee, Maine, 2008
Oil on canvas panel, 12 x 9 inches. On the backdrop is a Roman Catholic Church, Our Lady Queen of Peace on 82 Atlantic Avenue, Boothbay Harbor. Cobalt water and deep green forest are trademarks in this harbor. The painter captured this scenary from the boat heading for Cabbage Island. It is a coincidence that this vista was semi-abstractively painted by a well-known painter in Maine, Alfred C. Chadbourn, who emphasized the importance of capturing the essence of painter's emotion and simplifying the blue water and green hill in the background.
Winding Canal in Venice, 2007
Oil on canvas panel, 9 x 12 inches. Off a narrow street named Salizada S. Lio (Venezia), I sat on a stone staircase and painted the canal. It was hard to capture its nuance in the beginning. To make it worse, I became a final destination of pigeon excrement.
Walter carrying an artbox in Venice, Italy
While having painted a canal, I was bombarded by pigeons. John Singer Sargent had painted Venice Par Temps Gris (1880) here.
Rainy Daufuskie Island, 2005
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. We braved this cruise through a stormy ocean off Hilton Head Island by a small pontoon. It was raining, windy and noisy from a minimal rear-hanging motor. There is no vehicles, no street signals, no paved roads, no routine street signs, no stores, no public facilities; almost no man's island. There were empty piers and deserted boats on the ground, moss-hanging and water-soaked trees.
Mentor: John Cosby and Walter, 2004
During his workshop in Laguna Beach, California, we had a lunchbreak at a small town cafe in Silverado near Cleveland National Forest. He is a great painter without art school diplomas. His three-color limited palette is unique, his brush works are easy flowing, and a dark-to-light value approach is exemplary. He is so strong against cold weather that he calls himself "Polar Bear."
Boats await in foggy Seal Harbor, Maine by Walter Lee, 2002
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. Lobster boats and small boats are waiting for another day's dream catching works in the morning. A chilly fall has come and is moving fast toward wintry days. The painting is based on one of Acadia National Park photos taken by Raymond Gehman and published in a book of Our Inviting Eastern Parklands by National Geographic Society.
Clambake dinner on Cabbage Island, 2008
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Walter and Charlene extolled these lobster feast; it took almost two hours to consume thoroughly two sweet, succulent and sustaining (in taste) lobsters (whole thing, not just tail) and others including a bowl of clams, clam chowder soup, sweet corn, egg, and potato. I bet no place in the world can offer this abundant meal.
Piazza Tasso, Sorrento, Italy by Walter Lee, 2007
Oil on canvas panel, 12 x 9 inches. Running through the plaza is a main thoroughfare Corso Italia. In the main square, once called Largo of the Caste, the Baroque Church del Carmine opens up.
Walter painting plein air in Capri Island
A harbor in Capri Island, Italy is milling with tourists.
Lone Saxophone by Walter Lee, 2003
Oil on canvas, 36 x 47 3/4 inches. A lonely saxophone player entertains many passers-by who came to downtown Chicago for summer vacation. In the wake of 9-11 attacks, Sears Tower on the left side was overly protected by red-white-blue colored concrete barriers.
Main Street of Santa Paula, CA by Walter Lee, 2006
Oil on canvas panel, 14 x 11 inches, This antiquated small town surrounded by mountain ridges is mysteriously enshrined by low-hanging fog below the mountain ridges in the morning, but once the ocean wind is reversed Main Street turns into a lively business corridor with all kinds of old town ambience. Even many haunted house explorers in town enjoy its cheerfulness.
Court Street afternoon by Walter Lee, 2007
Oil on canvas panel, 12 x 9 inches. Court Street (Nogales, Arizona) is only two blocks away from the U.S.- Mexico border (for pedestrians) and throng with Mexican resident shoppers. Yet there is Catholic churches, a century old courthouse, and other historical and ordinary stores.
Art Class by Walter Lee, 2007
Oil on canvas, 11 x 14, Loose and free brush strokes make this painting special. A sketch-like quality is learned from a renown painter, Kim English in Colorado.
Mentor: Kim English, Walter and Marty Brens, 2007
Kim English workshop was organized by Art in the Aspens Workshop for which Marty Brens had energetically coordinated. Kim English paints as fast as rockets, yet delivers all essential ingredients in an inspirational way. His objects are the people in the landscape that I like most. The photo was taken at the Parkside Restaurant and Bar in Pueblo, Colorado.
Sitting Shirley Liao by Walter Lee, 2006
Oil on canvas panel, 11 x 14, Shirley Liao is a model. A great sense of colors is well demonstrated in this painting.
Nude- Maria Leon by Walter Lee, 2006
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Oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches. Maria was in a great physical shape for her age. Her pose is natural and appealing as model.
Mentor: Peggi Kroll Roberts and Walter, 2006
She emphasized a theory of three values, no more, no less. Her trademark is masterful Impasto. A painting in my hands titled "Three Bathers" by Peggi was purchased during her workshop in Laguna Beach, California. She resides in Angels Camp in northern California off Jamestown.
Nude- An old male model by Walter Lee, 2005
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Oil on cavas panel, 11 x 14 inches. Good etude on male nude.
Nude- Marli in a waterfront room by Walter Lee, 2003
Oil on canvass, 26 x 34 inches. The background room is derived from Edward Hopper's painting. The model is a professional valet dancer, Marli, who posed for a freelance photographer Peter Gowland.
Fruits and Bread by Walter Lee, 2002
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. Etude of still life
Pewterware and Fruits by Walter Lee, 1991
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. Peaches and an apple are home grown.