Bridal Seat in Kinmen

This is for Virtual Paintout August 2014, Kinmen Taiwan challenge. It's oil on 10x12 canvas board.

Kinmen has a lot of interesting scenes with traditional Taiwanese houses. I was browsing inside the Shanhou Folk Cultural village. There were many interesting views with Taiwanese curved roof and traditional houses. In one of the rooms there was this bridal chair with beautiful silk curtains (Ref). I decided to give this a try because I wanted to paint the silk curtains and also the interesting carved panel windows behind it. With the curtains I was trying to capture the reflective sheen of the material. The panel windows actually took me much longer to paint just because it was such a painstaking task, and I also wanted to give the painting a little more depth through the lights shining in from the outside through these windows.