2009年5月23日

Learn to Paint Without Painting Brush


Honestly, I am a totally outsider of painting, but after reading “learn to paint without painting brush”, I think everyone has the potential of painting. As long as you walk into nature, observing the world carefully with your eyes, ears and true heart. This is a very interesting book because the author himself is not a professional painter or art professor; instead he is an anatomy teaching in medical college. He returned to his alma mater to teach students how to dry a picture that not only touch you but also touches others.

At first he asked every student to draw a fish. but he found out all the fish they drew have a lot of feature and characteristic in common; like the fish all turn to the same direction an lack of vitality. His purpose of this course is to help kids to discover the own power of imagine and thought, then express these thought in the picture. Before painting, he took the students to go fishing by the river. He led them to observe the live fish swimming in the water, enjoying the beautiful and pleasant natural environment. After that he taught student how to dissect the fish in laboratory. Though some students were afraid of the bloody scene, most of them were impressive of the experience of dissecting the fish, learning the live lesson that no other thing is better than being alive.

The second day, something amazing happened. There was some subtle change in the picture of the student. They put their own thought and experience of fishing, dissecting and in the fish they were drawing. Besides, the fish on the paper seemed to have something to talk to people, not just a rigid dead fish on the picture. The idea which the author wants to indicate in this book is that through the process of observing and feeling the world surrounding you we can try to express your feeling on any kind of art form, then everyone can be an exceptional artist

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