2011年1月4日 星期二

互動英語教室 (8) - Let's go to an atelier (Part 1)

 

Lily and Louise are one of the many journalism (新聞系) graduates (畢業生) wandering what to do in the future. Since the economy is dipping into recession (衰退期), graduates with less experience are hard to find newsroom (新聞編輯部) jobs. At the very least, Lily and Louise are able to work across print and broadcast, and have acquired the necessary skills to write feature stories (專題故事). Lily has built on what she has learned at journalism school by taking a photograhy course. Recently, they find a great deal of freelance work for a newly established art magazine.

Knowing that many jobs in journalism are not officially advertised, Louise is very enthusiastic about social networking (人際網絡). Her friends are taking a painting class in an atelier (畫室) in Central, whose owner Mr Sun Ho is a graduate of the University of Paris. She immediately asks for his contacts and lines up an interview with him.

Lily showed up a half hour late to the interview because she was busy buying some fruits. Louise was very cross at her. Chrissy, the assistant to Mr Ho, greeted them at the door.

Chrissy: Hello, I am Chrissy. The assistant to Mr Sun Ho. You must be Louise and Lily from Hong Kong Arts magazine!

Louise: I am Louise. Nice to meet you

Lily: I am Lily . Nice to meet you

Chrissy: Come on in!

Mr. Ho is devoted (專心致力) into art education and has been giving painting classes to children and adults. Lily was attracted to the paintings by his students in the atelier and thus, couldn’t stop taking a lot of photos. His students are not only technically good at painting but also have individuality (個人風格) and expression.

Chrissy: He is Mr Sun Ho, owner of this atelier. He studied in Paris and is now teaching painting to children and adults.

Sun Ho: Enchanté! (meaning “Nice to meet you” in French)

Louise: Mr Ho, can you tell me the different types of paintings and techniques?

Sun Ho: monochrome drawing (單色畫) and colour painting (彩色畫) are the two major catogories of paintings.

Chrissy: We use charcoal (木炭) sticks () for monochrome drawing and oil colour, acrylic colour (丙烯酸顏料), pastel (粉蠟筆) and poster colour for colour painting. Here is the art kit.

Chrissy showed the art kit to Louise and Lily and pointed to the acrylic colour set and some paint brushes ().

Chrissy: In front of you is the easel. I am holding a palette knife () and you are going to draw on the canvas (帆布).

Sun Ho: What do you want to draw?

Louise: How about fruits?

Sun Ho: Let’s learn still life (靜物) drawing today.

Chrissy: Mr Ho is going to demonstrate how to draw straight and curved lines.

Sun Ho: Red, Yellow and Blue are the three primary colours (三原色).

A palette (調色板) is a very useful tool but can also cause trouble. Lily was so careless that she sat on a palette! They learned the basics techniques of still life drawing in this occasion and were advise to practise at home by picking easy objects to draw. Chrissy reminded them to avoid (避開) drawing oddly (奇怪) shaped (形狀) objects as beginners. Homely fruits, vegetables and gift boxes are all good choices!

Questions:
1)     What are two major types of drawings?
2)     What is the tool for monochrome drawing introduced in the video? How about colour painting?
3)     What did Lily and Louise draw on in the video?
4)     What are the three primary colours?

By Lily Poon
Special thanks to Atelier Sun Ho
Actresses: Chrissy, Louise and Lily
Director: C.P. Chan
Crew: Grammy and Sharon

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