写生感言
　　吕进

　　我从七十年代初学绘画的时候，就热爱上了写生。记得我第一幅写生是画马，当时第一次照着实物活体的马写生我还真有点紧张，这跟临摹书本上的马完全不同。当我哆哆嗦嗦画完后，我受到了许多叔叔们的表扬和鼓励，这更加激起了我对写生的浓厚兴趣。几乎每天一放学就去画马和马车，赶马车的叔叔常常向我索要我现场写生马的铅笔画，我都非常开心地赠予他们，因为这是对我写生马的肯定，他们也经常送给我西红柿和黄瓜予奖励。从此，我对写生的热情一发不可收拾，并由此开启了我的绘画生涯……
　　从对马的各种动态写生，使我感悟到观察力要既快又要准，把马的动态像照相机拍照一样一帧一帧地牢记心中，这对我以后的风景写生产生了很大影响。我的写生是将客观自然转向我的主观意识，在写生过程中捕捉大自然中光和色彩的细微变化，我喜欢用自己的油画语言表现瞬间的永恒及印象！

　　Recollections and Feelings on Sketching

　　From the very beginning of my learning for painting in 1970s, I had fallen in love with sketching. I remember that my first sketch was horse painting, and I was a little nervous when I first sketched a real alive horse, which was totally different from the horse copying from the book. When I finished the painting of horse with trembling hands, I was praised and encouraged by many uncles, which made me more interested in sketching. Nearly every day after school, I went out to draw the horses and carriages, and the uncles who drove the carriages often asked me for my paintings of horses, and I was always very happy to gave it to them, because this was an affirmation to my painting of horses, while they often gave me some tomatoes and cucumbers as an encourage. From then on, my passion for sketching went out of hand and my painting career was opened ......
　　From the various dynamic sketch of horses, I came to realize that observation capability should be both fast and accurate. I remembered the horse dynamic deeply in mind, just like taking photos from one frame to another by a camera, which had a great influence on my future landscape painting. My sketch is to turn the objective nature into my subjective consciousness and capture the subtle changes of light and color in the process of sketching. I like to express the momentary eternity and impression in my oil painting language!