One characteristic of the Lingnan school is the flexible application of different brush techniques, allowing for variety in the depiction of mountains, trees and rocks for example. This gives paintings from the Lingnan school a feeling of great immediacy, with vividly rendered landscapes featuring precipitous, imposing mountain scenes.
嶺南畫派技法上的特色包括：對筆意骨法的靈活運用，以中鋒、側鋒、偏鋒、臥鋒、推、拖、逆筆等，使山勢、古木、峻石等有多層次變化，因此嶺南乍看之下有特別濃洌的感覺，高山峻嶺氣韻生動、大氣磅礡。