Artist profile

 Photography and drawing has fascinated me throughout my life. The first initiation to draw and paint more frequently came true in 1988 in art classes of Ideen Aghdashloo, the well known Persian painter in all mediums.  After finishing basic skills in drawing and colored pencil with him, I explored and practiced watercolor, my treasured medium, by myself for few years. In the meantime, searching for a favorite master, I encountered to Atashzad, the pioneer in watercolor specially wet in wet watercolor paintings. His works thrilled and exited me so much that I have stayed with him for many years and whenever I get time attend his class and work with him. He showed me the fluidity and transparency of watercolor which is distinctive from oil and other mediums.

Besides painting plein air and still life, my inspiration is sketching and painting of human figure, as well as photography as a mean for my paintings. Living in Toronto in recent years, encouraged me to take part in classes of life figure drawing and painting. Moreover, the relaxed social settings and mixed culture of this city was a motivation to draw and sketch more often in locations such as coffee shops, malls, bookstores and subways. I have found that sketching or painting with ball pen on inexpensive sketch book and putting light washes of watercolor on it later on, is a good practice not to fear of mistakes or ruining the paintings. These days, my main effort is to capture the skills of simplicity, limited pallet and also harmony, as Khee Chee describes in bellow.
 Parviz Fardi Rad

Water is fluid, flow with it.

Chang- khee Chee creates gorgeous paintings by not painting them He talks about watercolor the same way as he paints. 

“Nature of watercolor is fluidity. It is hard to control watercolor. The minute we say control, we create a problem. Instead why can’t we work in harmony. If we work in harmony, if we paint in natural way, we accomplish our goals effortlessly. A superior painting is one that comes out of your heart. Paint what you know, paint what you like, paint for yourself. When you are working, clarify what you want to get from the painting. What struck you about the subject, and or why it doesn’t relate to you. When you are clear about this, you will paint the subject clearly and honestly. At the same time leave some room to grow, something you still hope to achieve. On canvas when you say you know everything, it means you are already dead. It is better to be out in the open ocean, in the middle of something big, huge and attractive that you don’t fully understand. On this I’m just clear. We’ve all just began to scratch the surface of what it means to be an artist.”