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The Warwick Art Day held
on 25th June 2005
brought in 24 art
enthusiasts, including 4
children and a number of
family groups.
Workshop leader John Li,
who has been an artist
and an art teacher for
over 15 years, shared
with us the joy of
creating art.
In the air-conditioned
art-room of Tsang Pik
Shan Secondary School,
we were warmed after
watching a video clip
that documented the
establishment of the
school¡¦s Sculpture
Garden, fruit of
joint-efforts by many
staff & students.
¡§Creating art is very
simple.¡¨ John said
and he drew a triangle.
¡§It does not need to
involve very complicated
steps. The essence is to
give life and meaning to
your creation.¡¨ He then
added a few strokes to
the triangle, here and
there. Immediately we
saw with amazement that
the basic geometric
shape had been
transformed into a
cartoon-version of
John's face.
Then John revealed the
material we were going
to use for our creation:
Clay! We were all
excited. To start with,
we spent some time
playing with it to get
familiarized with the
material. Guided by
John, we moved on to
experiment making forms
out of clay. Our
creations were then
gathered on one table:
It was a spectacular
collection of pots,
cups, bowls that came in
different sizes and
shapes.
¡§Well done everyone!¡¨
John said and we all
felt like emerging art
talents. ¡§You are now
ready to do the main
task for the day.¡¨ John
went on to explain the
task. Every participant
would create a sculpture
using clay and wire, and
for children, using
colourful rubber clay.
We first built a
skeleton using wire. At
this stage it was a bit
difficult to tell what
exactly every one was
making. But as we
continued to add clay to
cover the wire, the
forms began to take on
life and meaning. Before
long we saw the birth of
many subjects depicted
in sculpture: a tai-chi
man; a robot, a
dinosaur, a ballerina, a
water-surfing kid, a
guitar, a tango-pair, a
guy with his dog, an
acrobat etc. In front of
our creations, we posed
proudly and happily
showing our clay-covered
hands and took a group
photo.
The workshop ended with
John demonstrating some
watercolour painting
techniques. He first
drew the outline of a
sausage and a sunny-side
up egg. Then adding
colours mixed with
different proportions of
water, he created light,
shade and depth to the
objects. The egg and
sausage had become
¡§delicious hot
breakfast¡¨ and they
looked as if we could
even ¡§smell¡¨ them!
It was indeed a fun day
and we all enjoyed
ourselves. We returned
home with our sculptures
and abundant fond
memories of this
wonderful experience in
art creation.
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