After offering 99 free Chinese painting and poetry class for 2300 American students, I do find it was a little bit difficult for the too young students to use a Chinese brush directly.
So, from my 100th class, when I was facing a girl who is just 11 years old, I changed my teaching method and taught her to draft the painting with the pencil at the first, then to taught her to make Chinese ink by herself, to make a Chinese brush wet, then to paint with Chinese brush and Chinese ink.
On this painting, Joanna was learning to use a Chinese brush to paint her first Chinese painting.
She was quite smart and had a very good feeling about Chinese painting. I was really confident with her. :-)
If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to
shirley@ebridge.cn . You are welcome to publish your opinions in
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Shirley Yiping Zhang
Dec 30, 2013
