But even though he paints "modern life", his paintings, ignore the machines--cars, airplanes, cannons, or any of the many other things we are likely to associate with our own era.
水彩畫則是整體的展現，有主題、有背景，沒有空白，也沒有主色。李奇茂說：「彩墨畫就是傳統水墨畫加上顏色。