Have not updated this blog for awhile, I am adding a couple of my Grandfather's painting below, the first is the portrait of an old street paddler and the second a stone cutter, both paintings should be sketched in early 1930s' when he traveled to Northern China:

 

Dragon Boat Singer

This painting is believed to be done in late 1920s to early 1930s, it is a 136 x 112.3 cm four scrolls painting, the person in the painting is a dragon boat singer that used to go door to door to sing or chant verses of luck and fortune in order to get some money in return, the bamboo dragon boat had some mechanism covered by the cloth, when the person sang, he would trigger the mechanism to move the paddles and human figures, he also carried a small gong and hand drum on his body so he could beat out some rhythm when he sang, I think there is no body doing this anymore since the early 1960s.

Oil Painting

This is the only oil painting we could find that left by Huang Shao Qiang, I guess the painting should have been done in 1928 and it is one of his very rare oil painting.

Sketch at ZiXia Cave of Zhejiang Province

This is a rare Western style abstract painting sketching trees and rocks at the ZiXia Cave Scenery Area in the Zhejiang Province by my Grandfather traveled there at 1934, it is a watercolor painting and the style is clearly different from most of his other paintings.

Two More Fashionable Ladies

Two more paintings of fashionable ladies, these 2 paintings were from the a different period of those below, on these paintings my grand faster had added a light touch of objects like grass and falling leaves, he had also painted his name on the paintings instead on just the seals. The first painting was the portrait of somebody looked familiar to me.

Sketches of Street Peddlers

I am adding two paintings of Huang Shao Qiang's paintings sketching street peddlers.

Huang Shao Qiang's Memorial Park

Below is my Grandfather's memorial park, it is built on the place used to be his burial ground, there is a white marble status of him with black marble steles on the sides and behind, on these steles are inscriptions of paintings and writings as gifts to or about him from infamous and acclaimed artists and people like Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Gao Qifeng, etc., it 's me standing beside the status in the first photograph.