by yimiris | Apr 4, 2019 | Drawing
素描的長河 I was a student at the Affiliated High School of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1960s. When I first saw the drawings of the human form that Prof. Guo Shaogang (郭紹綱) brought back after studying in the Soviet Union as an exchange student, I...
by yimiris | Aug 4, 2018 | Charcoal drawing, Drawing
Drawing is often perceived to be a form of training. Although its importance of foundation building is recognized by many, it’s often “abandoned” once the artist moves on to other forms of expression using different media. For someone who has been...
by yimiris | Feb 2, 2018 | Charcoal drawing, Drawing, Still life
Introduction Still life painting became a stand-alone art genre in seventeenth-century Holland. From then on, ateliers and academies in Europe and Russia began teaching still life painting, making it part of the formal fine art education. Still life drawing affords...
