上个世纪80年代初我的中学美术老师带我到国画家沈红茶先生(1902—1985)家,从此就从师沈先生学画。建国前沈红茶先生和陈之佛、丰子恺,陆维钊、诸乐三、徐生翁都是画友,抗战前曾担任过杭州第三民众艺术馆馆长,抗战期间和学者、文字学家张天方一起流落到天目山,共创古文字画,兼任浙江省通志馆编辑,建国后一度在中学担任教师,50年代由于历史问题淡出画坛,文革结束后,恢复自由身,年近80,是浙北有名的老画家。沈先生知道我喜欢绘画,问我真想学好画吗。我回答想。他说:“那你先把字写好,书法是画的基础。”我当时并不知道书法与绘画的关系,只因为沈先生德高望重,也就半懂不懂去做了,但对怎样写字,通过什么途经才能把字写好一无所知。所谓的练字,徒具形式,没有具体的指标。1984年我转师西泠印社的 In the early 1980s, my secondary school art teacher took me to the home country painter Shen Hongcha (1902-1985) and studied painting from Mr. Shen. Before the founding of the PRC, Mr. Shen Hongcha and Chen Zhifu, Feng Zikai, Lu Weizhao, Zhules III and Xu Seng Weng were all friends. Before the war of resistance, they served as curator of the Third People’s Museum of Hangzhou in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Together with the scholar and philosopher Zhang Tian Fang To Mount Tianmu, to create ancient calligraphy and painting, part-time Zhejiang Tongzhi Museum editor, once founded as a teacher in high school, the fifties due to historical issues out of painting, after the Cultural Revolution ended, free, nearly 80, painter. Mr. Shen knows that I like painting and asked me if I really want to learn painting well. I reply. He said: “Then you write the first words, calligraphy is the basis of painting.” "I did not know the relationship between calligraphy and painting at the time, only because Mr. Shen respected and understood half do not understand to do, but How to write, pass through what can write the word know nothing. The so-called practice word, only form, there is no specific target. In 1984, I transferred to Xiling Seal Society