Ms. Cynthia Moore was the first art instructor who came to my art exhibition Feb 7, 2014 and asked me to give 3 groups o her students some Chinese Painting demonstrations and presentations. Also, she is the first art educator who asked me to teach her students Line Drawing - Chinese Baimiao.
I felt so luck to be given a so good opportunity to touch her students. I was so happy for her professional insight and knew the position of Line Drawing in the Chinese Painting field.
So, specially for preparing my classes for her students, this week, I painted 4 new paintings, not only painted some Chinese Xieyi, Biaomiao, also, I painted a Chinese Mogu, because I wanted her students know, except the ink lines in Chinese paintings as the bones of Chinese painting, there is another line of colors. :-)
I am sure by the good direction of Ms. Moore, I have done my best and her students have remembered at least the biggest characteristics of Chinese painting:
-- It is an art of lines, a linear art.
-- It is a comprehensive art.
When I would like to finish the writing about the classes that I have given to the students of Mr. Moore, I got a letter from
Dr. Ann Elise Pankhurst:
" I loved your lecture about Chinese painting and the opportunity to try some. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience"
Just let her words as the end remark of my classes for the students of Ms. Cynthia Moore at OTC, OK?
If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to
shirley@ebridge.cn . You are welcome to publish your opinions in
Message Board as well.
Shirley Yiping Zhang
Feb 17, 2014
