June 25, 2016. Pencil sketching. 24″ x 36″. 12 hours. Learning sketching in Taiwan became a big burden to my health.  I was always striving to minimise the influence of the trips on my work and family and other painting activities. Therefore I used to take the latest or earliest flight. That meaned I would… Read More

November 5, 2014.  Pencil Sketching on paper. 20 x 26″ Sketching is never easy.  Plasters are our main object.  Junior student will do geometry first.  And statue later on. The key is to replicate exactly the same thing without any tool. Draw one is difficult, it involved a lot of skills.  Draw a group of… Read More

June 10, 2016. Pencil on paper. 35cm x 55cm. Master Tang was the best teacher I met so far. He didn’t owe the perfect teacher method as Mastee Yim. He didn’t have the bright and big big studio as Master Jim. His class was short. He was low key. He didn’t have the best work… Read More

April 22, 2016. Oil on canvas. 26 x 36″ In Taipei. Goddess Vanice was a typical exercise for drawing student. The full female body was perfect in proportion and an amazing beautiful curvy object.  It was not 100% difficult for me. I guessed I had improved a bit, making it an hands on task now.… Read More

March 29, 2016. 48 x 55cm. I won the fame of big leap improvement in Master Yim’s studio with my President Franklin scripture life drawing work.  Classmates at that studio were mostly famous Taiwanese painters, college art teachers or well trained artists. Some of them had followed the master for 20 years and they always mentioned… Read More

March 22, 2016. 48 x 55cm. I went to Taiwan once a week from HK for 2 days to take drawing lessons. For the rest of days, I need come back to Hong Kong to work. Yes it sounds very crazy. It is crazy. My teacher is a renowned painting master, Yim Mau Kun.  He is… Read More

 March 20, 2016. 45 x 50cm. Unlike other Chinese teacher, the new teacher, Master Tang Yik Lung, was plain honest and straight forward.  He told me how bad I was and the unlikeliness for me to succeed as a professional painter or a master. Despite that I was deeply hurt and scared, I had a… Read More