ASJ (Dongguan) was pleased to host the third Master Class of the Youth Arts Education Committee of the Guangdong Soong Ching Ling Foundation (GDSCLF) on 22nd March.

The Master Class this time included two programmes: Character Sketching Talk on the theme of "Always on the Road" and Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop of Making Chashan Denggong Silk Cloth (Clay Figures in Silk Cloth). The whole event was informative and interesting and warmly welcomed by the school's students. 

Ms. Si-yan ZHANG, Deputy Director and Secretary General of the Youth Arts Education Committee of GDSCLF, and Mr. Jonathan LAI, Principal of ASJ (Dongguan), attended the event.

3月22日下午，广东省宋庆龄基金会“美育公益课堂”学者讲堂第三讲在东莞暨大港澳子弟学校开课。此次进入校园的“美育公益课堂”有人物速写讲座《一直在路上——人物速写谈》和传统非遗手工课“制作茶山绸衣灯公”两个项目。本次公益课堂讲座内容丰富精彩，手工课趣味十足，受到本校学生的热烈欢迎。省宋庆龄基金会“青美会”副主任兼秘书长张思燕女士，东莞ASJ总校长赖炳华先生等出席了活动。

Mr. Sun Ge, Deputy Director of the Youth Arts Education Committee and a first-class national artist was the honorary speaker of the day. Mr. Sun shared his creative journey and views on character sketching with over 200 students and teachers in attendance.

本次讲座有幸邀请到的讲者是“青美会”副主任、国家一级美术师孙戈老师。孙老师向在场两百多名师生分享了自己的创作历程以及对人物速写的感悟。

During his presentation, Mr. Sun displayed various military-themed works, portraits and sketches he created over the past 30 years, which were emotionally charged and exquisite, leaving the teachers and students in awe. Mr. Sun also highlighted the details of his works, guiding the students to pay attention to the details of life while learning to appreciate the beauty of art.

孙老师在课堂上展示了他三十年间不断创作的各种军旅题材作品、人物肖像作品以及人物速写作品，这些作品富有感情且惟妙惟肖，让在场师生感到惊叹。在展示过程中，孙老师还穿插了对作品细节的解读，引导同学们留心关注生活细节，学会欣赏艺术作品里的美。

Mr. Sun emphasised sketching as an important way to record life and express emotions. Especially in the current digital era, sketching has been given an important revelation, which is to re-emphasise the moment of creation and highly observe the details of life. "As long as you have paper and pencil in hand, you can create anytime, anywhere", this kind of happiness is the motivation of Mr. Sun's "always on the road" creation, and he used it to encourage students to be persistent and never stop discovering the beauty in life.

在分享速写作品的创作过程中，孙老师表示：速写是记录生活和抒发情感的重要途径，尤其是在当下发达的智数时代，速写更被赋予了重要的启示意义，这主要体现于其对创作瞬间的再次强调和对生活细节的敏锐关注上。“只要手头上有纸和笔，随时随地便能进行创作”，这种幸福感，正是孙老师绘画“一直在路上”的动力，孙老师也以此鼓励同学们要持之以恒，不断发掘生活中的美。

To let the students understand the process of character sketching and the charm of this activity, Mr. Sun chose two students as models to sketch, Mr. Sun quickly captured the characteristics of each student's image with meticulous observation, and then sketched the student's portrait with a few strokes of his excellent drawing skills, to which the students responded enthusiastically and with deep admiration, thus greatly inspiring the students' interest in art. 

为了让同学们更真切地了解速写作品的创作过程以及这项活动的魅力，孙老师随机选了两名同学进行速写创作，孙老师以细致的观察力迅速抓住每一位学生的形象特征，随后用精湛的画技几笔就勾勒出学生的肖像速写，同学们对此反应热烈，深表敬佩，此举也大大激发了同学们对艺术的向往和兴趣。

This time, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop taught students how to make Chashan Denggong Silk Cloth (Clay Figures in Silk Cloth), and the tutor was Ms. Cui-wei LI, a researcher of ancient villages and the representative inheritor of Guangdong Province's Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, Chashan Denggong Silk Cloth.

在本次非遗手工课堂上，学生们需要学习的非遗技艺是制作茶山绸衣灯公，授课老师是古村落研究者、广东省非遗项目茶山绸衣灯公代表性传承人李翠薇老师。

At the traditional level, the process of making  Denggong Silk Cloth is very complicated, and each step requires a certain level of skill. To enable younger students to access and learn this skill, Ms. Li has innovated the heritage by simplifying the process of making Denggong Silk Cloth, giving our primary school students an opportunity to experience the joy of creating an intangible cultural heritage artwork.

从传统层面而言，绸衣灯公的制作流程十分复杂，需要经过练泥、雕头、塑身、打面、着衫、装饰六大步骤，且每一步都需要一定的技巧。为了让低年龄段的学生能够接触和学习到这一项技艺，李翠微女士在传承中进行创新，简化了绸衣灯公的制作流程，让我们的小学生们有机会体验到非遗创作的乐趣。

The students were guided by Ms. Li's hand in creating the artworks. Following their own design ideas, they started to knead the clay with their hands, gradually forming the shape of their artwork while paying attention to details such as expression, texture and proportion to make the artwork more lifelike.

学生们在李老师手把手的指导下进行创作，根据自己的设计构思，开始用手捏黏土，逐步塑造出作品的形状和细节，并在创作过程中注意细节的处理，如表情、纹理、比例等，使作品更加栩栩如生。

During the students' production, Ms. Li also interspersed stories of the Denggong Silk Cloth historical origins. Through this learning process, students not only learned the skills of making the Chashan Denggong Silk Cloth, but also cultivated creativity, patience, and respect for an understanding of traditional culture.

在指导制作的过程中，李老师还穿插绸衣灯公的历史渊源、人文内涵，通过这样的学习过程，学生不仅可以学习到制作茶山绸衣灯公的技艺，还培养了创造力、耐心和对传统文化的尊重和理解。