My five-year-old daughter, gouache or Chinese painting is more suitable for her?

What you study depends on how you want to guide your daughter. Do you want to cultivate her artistic accomplishment or hope that she will embark on the road of studying professional art in the future?

From the perspective of professional study of fine arts, gouache and sketch are the basis of learning painting, as well as an art learning method introduced from western painting, and the basis of cultivating various aesthetics.

Chinese painting, as its name implies, shows some unique aesthetic thoughts of China people. Whether it is clever freehand brushwork or meticulous brushwork, we all pay attention to the word "meaning", especially freehand brushwork. Everyone has a deep misunderstanding about him, and it is freehand brushwork, which seems easier than neat meticulous painting. In fact, painting well can't be done overnight.

I graduated from the Fine Arts Department, majoring in Chinese painting. I studied basic courses such as sketch gouache in the first two years of my four years at school, and Chinese painting in the last two years. It can be seen that sketch gouache is the foundation. But your daughter is still young, you can let her try everything. She can learn what she likes first, and interest can guide her to make her own choices.

As for what boys and girls are suitable for learning, it is not necessarily so. Two thirds of our Chinese painting class are girls. The key is to look at interest.