Recently, the second session of "Oil Painting for Beginners" taught by Professor Tang Yingshan was completed.

In the last session, Tang Yingshan focused on instructing the core knowledge on the essence of structuring and its application, commented on the learners’ homework, both online and offline, and gave full recognition to the accomplishments achieved by the learners.

Works by offline learners

Works by online learners

Before the course started, a teaching team composed by one lecturer, three teaching assistants, and four volunteers had already been established, and the course had been elaborately designed, according to the characteristics of silver-haired learners, regarding the teaching content and learner support. To help each learner accomplish a finished product after the course was completed, the teaching assistants would release the well-illustrated teaching notes for their reference. Meanwhile, before a new session began, the members of the teaching team would also make some conclusive comments on the homework from the last session.

The oil painting course served as effective practice of a small-scale offline training course, providing impetus for large scale online teaching of aesthetic education, during which 15 offline students studied with 110, 000 online learners simultaneously. Live-streaming with precise cutaways ensured the viewing effect so that the live-streamed lessons received widespread positive comments from oil painting enthusiasts all over the country, concurrently all of them gave high praise to the high-quality course on aesthetic education provided by OUC and expressed their heartfelt appreciation.

With concise and effective teaching content, vivid and humorous presentations by the teachers, learning, both online and offline happened in a pleasant artistic atmosphere. Even with the challenge of being far away physically, online learners actively participated in exchanges and shared their insights. According to the face-to-face learning experience survey, the oil painting course earned 99 percent positive comments in terms of knowledge acquisition, learning pleasure and the overall satisfaction.

Group photo of the teacher and students from the offline class

As required by the majority of the learners, the advanced oil painting class by Professor Tang Yingshan will be held in Beijing in late November of 2023.

By Chen Hong, OUC