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Fan Wang
I used Paintbrush for Windows to paint these pictures. The most difficult thing is controlling the mouse, which takes a lot of practice. I have found that the Paintbrush software is very good for traditional Chinese ink painting. I was born in the early '60s. Every Chinese born at that time learned some skill, such as painting, playing a musical instrument, or acupuncture. Some of them can do these things professionally! I was 'formally' trained to be a painter (not an artist). This was my parents' idea. They believed that I was physically weak. If I had gone to countryside, I could have done paintings for the poor and lower middle peasants instead of doing hard labour in the field. I was lucky! I did not have to go to countryside for reeducation. I went to one of top ten universities in China to study physics. Since then, painting has been forgotten. Now there is not a single brush near me. So when I want to paint occasionally, I use the mouse. |
Ink Flower © Fan Wang |
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Cherry In D.C.
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Xu-Guang Tao I am not an artist. Although I tried to go to art school many years ago, I went a medical university instead, because my doctor-parents thought that an artist was doomed to starvation. Painting is now just one of my hobbies. The paintings presented here and in my home page art gallery were not scanned from paintings on paper, but drawn with computer software. Brushes, paper, and ink are not needed. All you need is imagination and a software package and some practice in controlling your mouse. I really have had fun doing this. Hope you would like the results too. Most of my computer generated paintings, such as "Shepherd Girl" and "Home River", were drawn with a software package called Animator, which is software for animations. The version of the software I have used is very old, with poor resolution, but is quite sufficient to create the lingering charm of traditional Chinese ink painting, as you can see. Recently I started to use a package called Paint Shop Pro, shareware from the Internet. My painting "Cherry in D.C." was drawn with this software. This package is much more advanced than the first one. I am still not quite familiar with all of its functions yet. I feel that I somehow lost the imposing manner in my paintings, however, when using fancier tools. Friends, do you want to try? You can do it too. Xu-Guang Tao at Baltimore |
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