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Nobility and the art of being young
Color Edu's Study Tour took students to Florence, Italy. [Photo provided to China Daily]
A bowl of noodles or a piece of cloth
draped over a bicycle shed are the simple kinds of things that can get the
creative juices flowing
"Held high up against the sun, the
violet bead of grape melts into a purple sea". Guan Yanfei wrote the lines when
she was 12, for the thick album of paintings published in memory of art, in the
way she saw it, as her first love.
Two years have passed since then.
Today Yanfei is still fond of using sunlight as a metaphor, in an effort to
describe the thrill and enchantment of a creative process, feelings that are
almost beyond words.
"I felt like water, blended with the
oil that was my paint," she says. "Together we rolled down the canvass in large
drops, reflective of the sunlight that fills the room."
Indeed, oil is her favorite medium,
as the collection of her light-soaked works demonstrate. The colors are heaped
onto the canvass, probably by a paint knife, to create a matte surface full of
tension, texture and a creative maelstrom. In short, they are mood
paintings.
And it is this mood-recording process
of art making that Wang Wei, founder of Color Edu, is determined to show to his
young students. "Strokes and sentiments - they are inseparable," says the
34-year-old, who founded his own children's art education center after spending
a decade in the industry.
"I chose gouache for my youngest
students - four or five-year-olds - instead of the more commonly used watercolor
or Chinese ink because gouache is less free-flowing and so is easier to control
for a child. Its quality also means that it is more capable of documenting the
entire creative process than many other media. Every stroke and every dab is
visible from the final work, even those first painted and later regretted. I
want the connection between a child and what he or she paints to be more
visceral and palpable. In this way the child learns to express him or herself
through art." (The oil classes are available for children aged 8 and
above.)
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