Picking up the paintbrush, stroke by stroke, he tried to sketch the scenes that Hong Kong people are most familiar with. It might be the wave of emigration he witnessed every day, and it might be something else that gave him the impetus to paint the Hong Kong landscape again during the past two years. Whatever the reason, for Cheung Kwan Ho, a Hong Kong painter, there appears to be a vastly different, even sombre feeling this time. He said, “I want to use the many things that I paint today to express and retain a memory of the old Hong Kong, something that will gradually disappear from our view.”
Even though computer graphics becomes increasingly popular today, Cheung thinks that it is never as good and vivid as hand-painting. On this assumption, he refers to his experience in the past when he was part of the “gang” within the locally made comics world, where everything was hand-painted. Long being part of the “Scene Hand” (comics background drawing), he persists in traditional hand-painting and regards it as simply irreplaceable as contemporary art.
