Arts

I have been learning traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy since I was three years old. These classical arts not only flourish my leisure time, but also deepen my understanding of nature, humanities, culture, and history.

Type I: Gongbi (Claborate-Style Painting)

This type of traditional Chinese painting highly requires a painter's patience and meticulous skills, as one very small object (e.g., a flower) usually takes one to two months to complete. 

Type II: Mogu Painting (Mogu=Boneless)

It is a traditional Chinese painting technique that does not use ink lines to illustrate the outline, but directly uses color or ink to render and dot to shape the image. Based on this type, I crafted a album of paintings.

Type III: Bird-and-Flower & Landscape Painting (Freehand Brush Work)

This type of painting is the entry-level painting for all those who learn Chinese painting. It emphasizes using freehand to freely express one's feelings, emotions, understandings, observations of flowers, birds, mountains, trees, rivers, and lakes in nature.

Type IV: Calligraphy

Besides traditional Chinese paintings, I also love writing calligraphy. Unfortunately, now I cannot find enough electronic scans of my calligraphy works.

Type V: Craft Artifacts

I also integrate the techniques of traditional Chinese paintings into the creation of craft artifacts, such as painted fans and Qinghua porcelains.

Type V: Traditional Chinese Paintings & Modern Visual Communication Design

Combining my hobby of drawing traditional Chinese paintings and my design major, I extracted the semiotics from (classical) traditional Chinese paintings and translated them into visual communication design works.