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

Apply colour on a moist paper or on top of watercolour paint that has not yet dried to create a colour gradation for the background. 

After a colour paint dries on the paper, applying another colour on top of it can create a new visual layer.

- What kind of playful action have you tried?

- What characteristics of watercolour have you found? 

- Different strokes from different brushes

- Lines, hatching, crosshatching, scumbling

Explore with anything that you could think of

Resource Kits

Object Library

Museums

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

Exploring watercolour painting techniques

Wet-on-wet watercolour painting technique