Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)

Artist Introduction

Video Viewing and appreciation

Let’s explore controlling the brush and ink before making your Chinese ink painting.

Exploring Technique: linear drawing, axe-cut texture strokes and hemp-fibre texture strokes

Let’s observe the composition methods used in various landscape paintings.

Exploring Effects: Painting Composition And Geometric Segregation Approaches

The Bauhaus Design Concepts, grid rearrangement and practicing 

Analysis of the works

The East and the West

Your Art-making Activity: Modern Ink Painting “Moving Landscape”

Resource Kit Overview

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, Wucius Wong will be introduced.

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Wucius Wong

Visual Arts

The Arts

Chinese brush, ink, xuan paper, small plate, water container

Hold the brush firmly, but gentle and relaxed manner. Keep it straight and vertical to the desk. This way allows greater freedom of movement, control and execution of stroke. 

Place a landscape painting under drawing paper and copy a part of the painting using the linear drawing method.

This is to create powerful and solid contours. The brush movements are usually rough and discontinuous, like the chopping of an axe. It is used mainly to present the solid texture and roughness of rocks. 

It is to create soft and smooth contours. It is used mainly to present the structure and fine, detailed patterns of rocks.

Resource Kits

Object Library

Museums

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Wucius Wong

Exploring Technique: linear drawing, axe-cut texture strokes and hemp-fibre texture strokes

Materials and tools