Name

Zou Wei

Background

Wei is a designer and landscape planner. He is the lead designer at Hestia Design Studio.

Having studied drawing and acrylic painting with Zhan Wei, the Deputy Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Yunnan University, he went on to study Engineer Mechanics at Chongqing Jiaotong University. He completed a Bachelor degree in Landscape and Urban Planning, and a Masters in Landscape Design at the School of Architecture, at the University of Manitoba.

His other accolades include academic scholarships and international design awards.

Class style

Wei has been teaching art at the Great Wall Dance School since 2019. His classes consist predominantly of sketching and color painting (including watercolor, and color led). His sketching classes focuses on the training and foundation of realism, to capture shape and time. Wei’s color painting course emphasizes divergent thinking, exercising students’ imagination and mastery of colors. Students are encouraged to be creative and explore their strengths and different drawing techniques.

Teaching Philosophy

Painting is about the journey and joy of the process. Whether the end result is a figurative object or abstractive form, painting is all about how pencil leaves mark on paper, how water blends with color. The true pleasure is when you enjoy each stroke during the process.