Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)

Artist Introduction

Video Viewing and Discussion

Appreciation

Let’s explore and practice before making your watercolour painting. 
Be creative!  Explore the ways you can think of. 


Materials and tools: Watercolour paints, drawing paper, drawing boards, brushes, water, water buckets


Exploring watercolour painting techniques

Let’s do it together!  

Materials and tools: Watercolour paints, drawing paper, drawing boards, brushes, water, water buckets, pencils, cross-line viewfinder


Your Art-making Activity: Watercolour Painting

A cross-line viewfinder is used to set up composition in sketching.

Introduction and Creation of Cross-line Viewfinder

Resource Kit Overview

Based on the Hong Kong Museum of Art collection, this series, ‘In Touch with Hong Kong Artists’, provides education materials and activity sets designed with the aim to raise the interest in artists and art and culture in Hong Kong. In this resource kit, Au Yeung Nai-chim will be introduced.

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Au Yeung Nai-chim

Visual Arts

The Arts

- We must select what to include in our sketches.

- Using a cross-line viewfinder helps elementary learners decide how broad a view they would like to include and the proportion of the objects in their sketches.

1.       Find a place and sit down comfortably.

2.       Look through the view-finder and select a scene.

3.       The scene enclosed by the viewfinder will the content of the drawing.

1.       Draw a cross to divide the drawing paper into four equal sections.

2.       The centre of the cross marks the centre of the paper.

3.       With the cross-line viewfinder, we can master the position and proportion of objects.

Tools: scissors, glues, rulers, tape, pencil

Materials: paperboard (A4 size), thin string

Draw four lines and cut out from an A4 cardboard.

Glue the ends of the stripes to form a rectangle.

Mark the mid-point of each side (the orange marks).

According to the marks, fix the threads onto the viewfinder with tape.

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In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Au Yeung Nai-chim

Introduction and Creation of Cross-line Viewfinder

Why do we need a cross-line viewfinder?