Perry Dino captures Hong Kong protests in oil on canvas

Local artist Perry Dino has chronicled Hong Kong's most controversial protest events the old-fashioned way.

Dino, whose real name is Chan, painstakingly captured some of this year's most momentous occasions by painting in oils on canvas.

His depiction of the ocean of protesters that swamped the government's headquarters in Admiralty earlier this month when tens of thousands rallied for days against the national education curriculum has been lauded by people who took part.

Other pictures he painted include the hunger strikers involved in the same protest and the anti-national-education protest outside Chinese University.

"I wanted to capture the moment by sitting down and painting what I saw," said Dino, 46. "This issue was so important to the people of Hong Kong and I wanted to record it for posterity."

During his time drawing and painting at Chinese University protest he spent seven hours at the easel without a break.