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Paul Cheng
P
aul Cheng, born in Guangzhou,
China, has loved painting since child-
hood, and wanted to be a professional
painter when he was only a teenager. “My
youth was the decade of China’s Cultural
Revolution,” he says. “There were no art
teachers and no art teaching books. I had
to explore painting by myself and find
some art loving students to draw and
paint together.”
After the Cultural Revolution ended
in 1976, Cheng returned to Guangzhou
to study art and work. In 1984, he was
admitted to Guangzhou Academy of
Fine Arts, and then received four years
of formal art education. Many years later,
he was recruited by Fox Animation Film
Studios in the United States.
While working, Cheng spent a lot
of time and energy continuing his oilpainting. “I participated in oil painting
exhibitions of different fine art associa-
tions almost every year, especially those
of the Oil Painters of America," he says.
"In 2017, I was honored to become a
Signature Member of Oil Painters of
America. After decades in an art career,
I have been very clear about my own
pursuit of fine art.”
Photorealism is definitely not Cheng’s
main pursuit, but instead he prefers a
style similar to impressionism, pursuing
the great feeling of shape, color and
stroke. “I’m influenced by some film,
television and animation art, of course,
but my personal oil painting style also
affects my painting process in film/TV
animation and games as well,” he says,
“but I don’t know what kind of painting
style I belong to.”Cheng continues, “I like outdoor
landscape painting, but I prefer to
paint figures at my studio. People on
the beach, Western scenes and ballet
dancers are all my favorite themes.
In each of my paintings, I pursue an
outward expansion or inward contraction
force and sense of movement, and use
a variety of changeable composition,
modeling, color, value and brush or
palette knife to achieve this effect.”Want to See More?
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