Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)

The following museum collection will be shown and explained the difference between figurative, semi-figurative and abstract paintings. 

Figurative, semi-figurative and abstract paintings

Video Viewing and appreciation

Resource Kit Overview

Your Art-making Activity: Semi-figurative Painting

Artist Introduction

Let’s explore and practice before making your semi-figurative painting. 

Exploring the overlapping effect

Based on the HKMoA 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, Gaylord Chan will be introduced.

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Gaylord Chan

Visual Arts

The Arts

Acrylic paints, paper cards, palette, brushes, water, water buckets

Apply a single color on each card but leave half of the card empty. Let them dry. Make one more set of those. 

Apply red paint on one set of the colored cards. Let them dry. 

What are the differences between the combinations?

How do you feel about the overlapping effect?

Apply acrylic paint on the other empty cards in various densities.

·     other ways that you could think of

Resource Kits

Object Library

Museums

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Gaylord Chan

Exploring the overlapping effect

Background Knowledge

Materials and tools