Generally, it is regarded as challenge work to grasp the drawing style of an ancient masterpiece in Chinese painting learning. This paper presents a novel approach to the generation of a Chinese ink painting in a certain style and animating its brushwork process with expert skills. In order to demonstrate the techniques of brush and ink inside a stroke, a serials of geometric properties of a brush stroke, are first extracted, then through rational deformation calculation, the best stroke source is mapped onto the stroking path, which is sketched by the user, and finally a new Chinese painting can be synthesized by style migration and natural stroke composition. So with the generated strokes, the lifelike brushwork process of the new painting can be represented dramatically. Actually, by showing the authentic painting process, the tool we implemented helps the learners, who have no profound skills and knowledge in domain of Chinese painting, master the essence of a great painting style, and also provides an easy way to art creation and the comprehension of mysterious Chinese traditional art. K E Y W O R D S 2D object synthesis, Chinese ink painting, computer animation, drawing process, image-based modeling 1 INTRODUCTION Chinese ink painting, also known as "Shui-mo Hua" or "literati painting," has been inherited through successive generations for its unique beauty and freehand style. It is among the excellent and most important of all Chinese art forms and an inseparable part of Chinese history. As opposed to western styles of art, it involves essentially the same techniques Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance.