Painting Lessons & Film Festival

by Camille Gutiérrez
I have been taking Chinese painting lessons for CUHK staff. Although the class is conducted in Cantonese the teacher is kind enough to translate the major points. I underestimated not only the difficulty of the style but also how much the it differs from Western painting. With oil or acrylics you can layer the paints and essentially “correct” a mistake. With calligraphy style painting you have to create the image (a leaf, bamboo, a bird) in a limited number of strokes. It is difficult to control the amount of water and ink and on the brush and the direction of the stroke! They are offering the class again next semester, I think I ought to continue.

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