WING | Mixed Media
A Poodle's Wink
Medium: Oil Paint, Adobe Photoshop
While everyday events are taking place, a dog is just winking at the camera with one eye shut and the other one open.
Xuanfei Liang
12/20/2024
A Day in the Kitchen
Medium: Photoshop, Colored Pencils
A kitchen can represent how warm and cozy of an environment you reside in. From whether or not your kitchen is tidy and organized, it is a place in your home that can symbolize an aspect of your personality.
Xuanfei Liang
10/31/2021
Color Patches
Medium: Markers, Charcoal Pencil
Multiple 3D shapes and their shadows are reflected in the colorful patches of art. This is piece of art depicting black and white shapes reflected in color.
Xuanfei Liang
1/11/2021
A Solo Hot-Air Ballon
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Xuanfei Liang
2/5/2024
The Perfect Mix of Scenery (2)
Medium: Quartz-sand, Acrylic
At first glance, this artwork seems simple like the capture of a moment in time. But, the bigger picture behind this work is that not everything in the world has changed to fit industrialization as the efforts to preserve nature still exists but in smaller parts of today's world. To me, the view of a mountain is a safe space of astonishing natural beauty with its dense, evergreen forests, lucid and sparkling streams, and rugged peaks. In 2024, I visited “The Pink Mountain” online, which inspired me to create this artwork from my imagination and creativity using sand to evoke texture. This is a piece of sand art on canvas that I created back in 2024, one of my favorites, as it depicts a stream unpolluted and grimy but healthy due to the presence of algae, diverse and colorful flowers, and pink peaks that got its pink hue from the sunset above and the mineral composition of its mountain. Mountains allow for an ecosystem of wild animals to thrive and give off a sense of spiritual realm, Mother-nature, confidence, determination, and the embodiment of life.
Xuanfei Liang
1/4/2025
An Afghan Identity Crisis
Medium: Water color, Markers, Color Pencils
I created this mixed-media to represent and to convey my classmate's identity crisis that led her family and her to move to the US. US. As a result, instead of being a bystander, we can all fight for the idea of a woman being able to own her body without a man having to tell her to wear a burqa or not.
Xuanfei Liang
12/13/2024
The Setting Sun
Medium: Acrylic Paint with water
This is a scene of the sun setting with a blazing red, orange, and yellow sunset when a whale's tail suddenly appears, casting a shadow in the deep sea of tides.
Xuanfei Liang
11/24/2022
The Perfect Mix of Scenery (1)
Medium: Quartz-sand, Acrylic
This painting depicts a perfect and preserved scene created by Mother-nature. The river water is not polluted and grimy, but clear as day and healthy; the flowers are diverse and gorgeous; the sky is overseeing the pink mountain; and the scene reflects nature's definition of natural beauty.
Xuanfei Liang
10/23/2024
Mickey the Cupcake
I made this Mickey-Mouse themed cupcake for my friend's birthday one time to show my gratitude for our long-lived friendship. This meticulously crafted cupcake can symbolize loyalty as well as creativity.
Xuanfei Liang
7/26/2019
Am I pretty now?
Medium: Colored Pencils
There are beauty standards for women, everywhere. This raises much pressure for women in society to meet these standards and that includes surgery. Every change to the face to meet beauty standards, every tear is shed.
Xuanfei Liang
12/13/2024
Jeffersonian Architecture
Medium:: Watercolor, Markers, Charcoal Pencils
Xuanfei Liang
2/23/2024
A Content Sea Otter
Medium: Charcoal Pencils
When I went to a zoo performance one day, I took note of this one sea otter who was flapping his fins and dancing to his trainer’s commands. He was so adorable, and, back then, I just thought to myself of how any animal could be lured into a human being’s commands with a food reward.
Xuanfei Liang
8/18/2016
Blooming Triples
Medium: Mosaic Tiles, Permanent Marker
Xuanfei Liang
9/17/2024
Redrawing the Sistine Chapel
Medium: Oil Pastels
Xuanfei Liang
10/17/2024
A Solo Hot-Air Ballon Overseeing a Blue Sky and Mother Nature’s island
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Xuanfei Liang
2/28/2025
Omniscience
Medium: Dry-point Etching, Water-color
Most people are pessimistic, meaning that they hold the belief that the world has more negatives than positives. But, we can all learn from the life-long lesson of cherishing the small moments of happiness like a beautiful rainbow evoking a feeling of tranquility after precipitation caused by pollution.
Xuanfei Liang
5/10/2023
An Aesthetic Marine Ecosystem
Medium: Color Pencils, Oil Pastels
If you go scuba-diving in your life next time, be sure to open your eyes underwater to see the beauty underwater.
Xuanfei Liang
11/5/2016
The Skull for the Day of the Dead
Medium: Charcoal Pencil
The skull depicted in the image is enjoying the tune of the music coming from up and above. Despite the pool of blood and eyeballs on the ground, this was his relatives way of honoring the dead.
Xuanfei Liang
12/22/2024
Plains Under the Sky
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Xuanfei Liang
1/1/2025
An Island Resort in the middle of the Turquoise Waters
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Xuanfei Liang
1/11/2025
Picture Perfect Chemistry
Medium: Photoshop, Color Pencils, Markers
Xuanfei Liang
12/22/2024
Mix-mash of “The Scream” and “The Seated Boxer”
Medium: Oil Pastels
Xuanfei Liang
12/6/2024
A Melting Arctic
Medium: Charcoal Pencils, Colored Pencils
We need to preserve the Arctic or sea ice for the sea animals such as penguins. If global warming speeds up, the sea ice melts, and people destroy the Arctic, sea animals would be forced to adapt or to face extinction.
Xuanfei Liang
12/1/2019
Isenheim Altarpiece Come Alive in the Midst of the Sunset
Medium: Watercolor, Color Pencils
Xuanfei Liang
3/23/2024
Redrawing the Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of EDen
Medium: Color Pencils, Water color
Xuanfei Liang
1/5/2025
An Astonishing Peacock
Medium: Water color, Color Pencils
This just shows how a male peacock has to display his beauty conveyed by his feathered appearance to attract and intrigue his mates toward him, just like a human's social life.
Xuanfei Liang
2/3/2023
Mix-mash of Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and Starry Night
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Xuanfei Liang
12/17/2024
Traffic Lights in the City
Medium: Acrylic, Color Pencils
There is little time for relaxation in the midst of the city as people don't even notice each other anymore due to the amount of traffic and people busily getting to work. The blending colors of the traffic lights showcase the busyness of NYC.
Xuanfei Liang
12/14/2024
Wild Girl
Medium: Water color
This painting depicts the many colors of red, blue, pink, yellow, black and green that nature brings to life.
Xuanfei Liang
12/22/2024
The Power of Words
Medium: Water color, Colored Pencils, Oil Pastels
Letters can form words, and, from words, we can communicate with people. No words, no civilized nation, no communication.
Xuanfei Liang
10/13/2020
A Juicy Slice of Wonder
Medium: Colored Pencils
One day, I captured a nature scene of little critters enjoying a juicy slice of watermelon left from a picnic at a park when it was raining. This moment taught me to appreciate the small but wonderful things part of a bigger picture. Sometimes, we are too busy to discover the beauty in nature.
Xuanfei Liang
12/10/2024
Crystal Fruits
Medium: Color Pencils
Diamond shapes make up the Crystal Fruits.
Xuanfei Liang
9/12/2015
Taiyaki
Medium: Color Pencils, Water color
Taiyaki is a type of fish waffle with ice-cream. In the background of the Taiyaki floating midair is a representation of the busy traffic in New York City. Sometimes, you can still enjoy delectable delights in the midst of business.
Xuanfei Liang
8/19/2024
Serenity
Medium: Markers, Colored Pencils
This is a scene of a place I visited that I once captured in my journal and thought I would bring to life in a gallery. The still waters and palm trees in the midst of the setting sun all brings to life of an appreciation of nature and its washes of color that it gifts to the Earth.
Xuanfei Liang
10/2/2020
Nature’s Golden Gift
Medium: Gouache
Sunflowers require the sun’s rays to grow and to thrive as a species. They are one of my favorite flowers and they symbolize positivity, resilience, spiritual awakening, optimism, harvest, and longevity.
Xuanfei Liang
9/30/2023
Redrawing the Deluge
Medium: Color Pencils, Water color
Xuanfei Liang
1/7/2025
An Abstract Utopia
Medium: Water color, Color Pencils, Markers
This is a recreation of the Female Pwo Mask from the African culture. Tis piece of mixed media depicts a woman of mixed African and White descent who is meditating in her own utopia where there is no racial discrimination .
Xuanfei Liang
12/13/2024
Portrait of Saint Anthony in the Daylight
Medium: Watercolor, Color Pencils
Xuanfei Liang
1/5/2025
Redrawing the Creation of Adam
Medium: Color Pencils, Watercolor
Xuanfei Liang
1/4/2025
Portrait of Michelangelo
Medium: Color Pencil, Water color
Xuanfei Liang
12/21/2024
"The Harmonic Bird"
Medium: Acrylic, Magazines, Photoshop
The other-worldly looking flamingo contrasts with the unsightly black-yellow colored background pieced with political magazines symbolizes harmony, community, and self-expression. Unlike people, animals have simplistic lives, oblivious to the ongoing political turmoil of the 21st century.
Xuanfei Liang
5/19/2021
Fragments of the Lapita
Medium: Photoshop, Color Pencils, Markers, Acrylic Paint
Xuanfei Liang
1/3/2025
The Essence of Light
Medium: Color Pencils and Crayons
Here, sunlight is shining down on the pumpkin, apple, and orange, simultaneously making them cast shadows on the blue and black patterned tablecloth.
Xuanfei Liang
8/23/2018
