Smoke in the Mountain, 17.7 x 20.87 inches, 1994 Taipei ©
山坳籃煙 （雙溪）53x45 cm , 1994 台北
1994 is the year that I started private teaching at the National Studio in Taipei. We started with classical bust study, then head portrait drawing, still life oil painting, portrait oil painting and figurative oil painting. All the teaching was done through live demonstration.
1994年是在＂國家畫室＂個人教學的第一年，從鉛筆石膏像素描開始，然後是頭像素描，靜物油畫，油畫人像，最後是油畫人體。 全程都是寫生訓練。
Because I taught on Mondays and Tuesdays, so plein air painting trips could only be scheduled over the weekend. A student of mine took me to this place. It’s behind the Jiu Fen mountains, very serene and off the beaten track. I told the student who was driving to stop as soon as I saw the scene.
由於都是每星期一、二的晚上上課，風景寫生課就只得另外安排在假日白天。 這個地方還是學生帶路開車去的。那是九份山的背後，蠻幽靜的一處山坳，山林茂密，人跡少至。我一見到眼前這番風景馬上叫停，就此下車尋點。
This painting was done as demonstration for teaching purposes. I intended to demonstrate how one could minimize the use of oil in oil painting process by using bristle brushes and thick layers of paint. The oil paint in itself contains a lot of oil. In addition, the paint without mixing in oil has richer colors.
這張畫完全是示範教學的作品，有很明確的針對性：就是針對畫油畫過程中用油過多的毛病而大量使用了豬鬃筆，厚塗法，幾乎不用油，因為，油畫顏料中已經具有相當飽和的油份。另外，未摻油的顏料色性更微妙更豐富。
