Royal Master Painter

Chapter 13 Homemade Paints
There was at least a month before the Gongsheng exam, so Jiang Lu found a hotel to stay temporarily.

The next day, I went shopping in Lin'an City and wanted to buy everything I needed, especially paints. Even the cheapest paints needed some.

But what he didn't expect was that no matter where he went, when he saw Jiang Li, no one would sell him no matter what the price was, and even the bookstalls on the street would avoid him. He couldn't think of anyone else except Qian Tong. do it.

It costs too much to live in a hotel every day, and the first thing Jiang Lu solves is the problem of living.

After solving the problem of living, the most important problem right now is paint and making money.

Making money is not difficult for Jiang Greed, and one of his paintings can sell some silver, which is rare for paint.No one in Lin'an City is willing to sell it to him, the only way is to do it himself.

A painter cannot use the Danqing method without paint, which is equivalent to a swordsman without a sword.

The reason why he refused to buy paints from Tongbao Pavilion, apart from Qian Tong's humiliation, was that he simply couldn't afford it.

Things like pens, inks, papers and inkstones start with counting taels or even dozens of taels of silver, while pigments are negotiated in gold.

Fortunately, Jiang Li knew where to find colored stones for making pigments, and that was the medicinal material store.

Most pigments are made from minerals, and these minerals are often used in medicine.

With the mentality of giving it a try, I went to several medicinal material stores in the future. I didn't expect to let him find some green stones and some cinnabar. It only cost 30 taels of silver. Even the cheapest ones are cheaper than his Paper bundles are several times more expensive, which makes Jiang Li lament that the rural income of Nanping Town can't afford such consumption.

In Xuanguo, only some special craftsmen can make colored stones into pigments, but this is no secret to Jiang Li, the production process is not difficult, in fact, it is just extraction and dissolution.

Jiang Li found two pieces of cloth in the yard of the inn, wrapped a few green stones from the medicine store in the cloth, and then smashed them with a hammer. After taking out the pieces, he began to grind them again.

When the green stone turned into powder, Jiang Li found a basin, washed the stone green powder away with water, and after a long time of natural precipitation, the water of the green stone powder was clearly divided into three layers of dark green, medium green, and light green. .

Jiang Li divided the three layers into three parts and continued to settle for a long time. He poured out the uppermost clear solution, then evaporated the remaining solution to dryness, and ground the precipitate into powder to obtain the pigment powder.

The whole production process took only two days. Four kinds of pigments were made out of green stone and cinnabar, including first green, second green, third green and vermilion in different shades.

Jiang Li began to paint after mixing glutinous rice water and pigments. Because the utensils used were relatively simple, the pigments were still slightly grainy when used, but they were better than nothing.

Soon, a green tree appeared on the drawing paper, with both form and spirit.

This should be regarded as a low-quality painting, but Jiang Li frowned slightly when he looked at this painting, and he found a big problem when he was painting just now.

That is, the quality of these paints he made is really poor, completely different from what Lu Daoxuan gave him back then.

The biggest difference between the pigments made of these medicinal materials and the real pigments is that there is no aura. The real pigment raw materials are colored stones that absorb the aura of heaven and earth, so that after painting, the aura in the pigments and the artist's spiritual power complement each other.

The gap in the paint caused Jiang Li to lose more than twice his spiritual power out of thin air when using the Danqing method. The lag in writing the pen affected his painting skills, and he still couldn't get the perfect color.

Even if it affects the real level, it is enough to draw some inferior paintings.

If you want better paint, you need to earn more money. Jiang Li remembered what Master Lu said. The correct thing is to spend more money and buy it elsewhere.

As for how to make money, the most convenient thing for Jiang Lu is to be a painter, but Master Lu does not allow him to use it in front of others, so selling paintings has become Jiang Lu's only means of making a living.

Early in the morning, Jiang Li packed up his things and prepared to go to the Shanglin Academy in Lin'an City to have a look. Yunzhou has 23 cities under its jurisdiction, and each city has an academy that continuously supplies Wenfu with materials.

Shanglin Academy has thousands of students, so selling paintings here is naturally the best place to go, especially Qian Tong, no matter how powerful he is, he dare not come here to find work.

The Academy is the largest and most luxurious building in Lin'an City. Dragons and phoenixes are carved on the walls at the entrance, and the blue bricks and tiles are magnificent.

Jiang Li was a little shocked when he saw these four characters. The handwriting was as strong as a dragon coiling a phoenix, and Jiang Li could clearly feel a majestic force attached to this word.

"Sure enough, extraordinary must come from the hands of famous masters"

Jiang Gu heard from Lu Daoxuan that the Daoxuan of the Yuling Continent has ten thousand ways to reach the sky, there are painting methods, and calligraphy naturally has a unique cultivation method. This plaque is obviously written by a master, and if it is activated, it may have magical powers.

Poor culture and rich martial arts are not established in this world. After all, pens, inks, papers and inkstones are sold at sky-high prices, and most of those who can study in Shanglin Academy are children of wealthy families.

There are many teahouses and restaurants near the academy, and there are also many cultural treasure shops. Some people even set up stalls along the street to write calligraphy and draw fan inscriptions for people, and the business is very good.

Jiang Greed looked for a place with the most people queuing up. An old man dressed like a worldly expert was painting for people, and there was a very conspicuous market sign beside him.

"Old Lin An, Yan Liliu, draws with his fingers instead of a brush.

The vertical and horizontal swaying is very interesting, and the technique in his later years is more alarming.

Painted a gray tiger for my fingertips, the air is overwhelming and cold,
At the beginning of the ink falling, the birds and sparrows avoid it, and the coloring wants to stop the wolf from worrying. "

This old man named Yan Liliu doesn't know how good a painter is, but he actually let the painting get rid of the shackles of the pen and swayed his fingers on the paper, which reminded Jiang Li of some masters who "roared the book" and "shot the book".

Jiang Greed looks down on this kind of bastard from the bottom of his heart. He does not follow the right path and picks side paths. If he is not good at calligraphy and painting, he will find another way.

But at this level, there are people queuing up to buy paintings, so I can do it myself. This seems to be a way to make money.

Just do what you say, and the place is chosen next to Yan Liliu.

The sun was a little bit dry, and Jiang Greed set up a stall under a willow tree, and wrote a market sign for himself just like Yan Liliu.

Yan Liliu next to him is 20 taels for a painting, and he needs at least [-] taels.

"The walls of the house are empty, and the two sleeves are clean. Selling papers and paintings, and commissioning books to get money.

60 taels for large size, 40 taels for medium size, 20 taels for small size, [-] taels for banners and couplets, [-] taels for fans and buckets, and bring your own paint.

No gift of food is worse than silver.What the public gives may not be what I like, and giving cash is a joy in my heart.

Both calligraphy and painting are good, gifts are entanglements, and credit is especially bad.Clumsy words and blunt speech, can't accompany gentlemen in useless talks, painting bamboo is more than buying bamboo, and the paper is six feet high and costs three thousand.Let Qu talk about the old theory, just let the autumn wind pass by his ears. "

In this ad that is more than a hundred words long, the core is actually one word, I am short of money!

It was also the first time for Jiang Li to do this kind of thing in the business of selling calligraphy and paintings, and he was a bit shy, and he was too embarrassed to talk and shout when he sat behind his booth.

The atmosphere of the whole Yunzhou likes to dance and write, so there is also the custom of "no calligraphy and painting at home, not an old family".Hanging a pair of celebrity calligraphy and paintings at home will double your taste and social status.

(End of this chapter)