Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)

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

The East and the West

Resource Kit Overview

Video Viewing and appreciation

Analysis of the works

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

Artist Introduction

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 

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, xuan paper, ink, small plate, water container (for washing the brush), iPad, technical pen, white A3 paper, cutter, 12-inch plastic ruler, pencil, cutting mat

Search online with an iPad and select one or two traditional Chinese landscape paintings.

Place a piece of white A3 paper over the iPad, copy the painting and create a draft. 

Divide the painting according to the selected geometric segregation approach, and rearrange the composition.

Paste the new arrangement on a piece of white paper. 

Place a piece of xuan paper on top of the sketch and draw the gridlines.

Draw the contours using the linear drawing technique and create the texture of the rocks and mountains using texture strokes.

Resource Kits

Object Library

Museums

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Wucius Wong

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

Background Knowledge

Materials and tools