韩美林先生的绘画艺术风格与其个人气质、生活经历、美学思想密切相关，与他钟爱的文化传统和民间艺术有关，同时，又表现出了他与时代的关系。他的绘画具有材质和表现方法的多样性。
韩美林先生的的国画，以书法入画，强调笔墨构成与造型的结合，在写的表现与水墨的韵味、装饰性的趣味相结合方面，创造了属于他自己的个性风格，为中国水墨画艺术开拓了一条不同于前人的新的道路。其构思新颖，不同凡响；用笔奔放洒脱，不拘一格。他笔下的动物，具有他标志性的造型特点，而流畅的弧线或直线所概括的形体结构以及关键部位，无不反映出他高度的概括能力和深厚的造型基础。这些造型生动活泼、加以适度的夸张变形的动物，表现了他潜藏在内心的深情爱意。而在人物画中，则多用更为复杂多变的曲线来完成，不仅显示出人物体态的美感，也展现出线条本身的魅力。
韩美林先生喜欢用硬笔在卡纸上画类似于速写的装饰画，每每至此，他的才思泉涌，一种顺手牵羊的随意和不假思索的流淌，好象转瞬即逝的神来之笔。不管是人体，还是动物，千变万化，无一雷同，既有耐人寻味的装饰性语言，又有让人赞叹的抽象性表现。在这些作品中，装饰性的色彩运用，往往来自于民间，表现出了强烈的民族风格和独特的现代性。
The style of Mr. Han Meilin’s painting art, which reflects his relationship with the time, is closely related to his personality, life experiences and aesthetic ideas, as well as his beloved cultural tradition and folk arts. He is good at using various materials and methods to paint.
Absorbing from calligraphic skills and emphasizing the combination of the ink structure and the ornamental taste, Mr. Han’s traditional Chinese painting develops his own personality and style and opens up a different new way for the Chinese traditional painting art. He paints with original and outstanding ideas and untrammeled strokes not limited to one style. The animals he paints are of distinctive features and the fluent curves and straight lines, which form the structure and key parts of the animals, reflect Han’s excellent abstract ability and profound master of molding and shaping
These animals, whose shapes are vivid and lively and are appropriately exaggerated and formed, show Mr. Han’ deep love. In his human body paintings, Han tends to use complex and changeful curves, which not only shows the beauty of human body, but also expresses the glamour of lines.
Mr. Han Meilin loves to use whiteboard markers to draw decorative paintings similar to sketches. Whenever he draws these paintings, his new ideas come out (flow) endlessly. The paperboard sketches, which seem as if created with a magic brush, represent a beauty of quickness and an unselfconscious flow. Whether the human body or the animal paintings, they are never similar to each other. The use of decorative color is usually come from the folk, which shows strong ethic style and unique modernity.
