Almighty painter

Chapter 107 The First Trial of Drawing Techniques
Kou Kou took out her phone from her pocket, opened INS, and clicked on the home page account named [Sheng Zi] in the watch list.

"Have you heard of the [Shwedagon Pagoda Fresco Restoration] historic site restoration project? This is the most important project for the Myanmar government this year to enhance its international image. The host of the project is the master painter Cao Xuan."

She stuck out her tongue: "During the winter vacation, my father received an order to strengthen the police security patrols in the Shwedagon Pagoda area. I heard that when he came to pick up this world-class artist at the airport, , several relevant ministerial-level senior officials were all present in person, which is very grand."

Kou Kou's father is a local senior police inspector in Yangon. He is considered a senior police officer, so he is naturally aware of this important government project.

"Old Mr. Cao Xuan?"

Mona wrinkled her nose slightly.

Even if she doesn't paint Chinese paintings, the influence of Cao Lao's name in the Asian art circle is like the status of the Beatles in the rock field, and it is a household name.

But apart from surprise, she didn't feel anything else in her heart.

Such an art godfather is too far away from her daily life.

It was so far away that with Mona's rationality, she couldn't even think of yearning.

"What does this have to do with Katsuko Sakai's transfer?"

"She mentioned on the photo wall on Instagram that she is one of the 47 artists invited to the project. She is only a teenager, and she can work with a big man like Cao Xuan. Hmph...I have to seize the opportunity, Even if you can't get this chick, at least you have to get some of her autographs."

Kou Kou stared at the easel in front of her eyes, her eyes were as bright as a cat that saw a fish.

"This is the gold mine ahead of us. In another ten or twenty years, when Ms. Sakai becomes an internationally renowned painter, maybe a painting can be exchanged for a house with a garden."

Mona looked at the easel where people kept stopping to watch, and sighed inwardly.

The class gap is so profoundly displayed in front of this proud female student council president.

Everyone is the same age, wears the same school uniform, and paints in the same studio.

Even Mona was a popular figure in school.

But she knew clearly,
This is just a brief intersection between the fate of Miss Sakai and ordinary people like them.

Mona's life plan is nothing more than to become an exquisite and wealthy wife who is easy to get rich, marry a decent husband, have two children, and live a leisurely and elegant petty bourgeois life.

And with Katsuko Sakai's painting talent, her family background, and the opportunities she could get.

The spotlight of the whole world art is waiting for her in the not-too-distant future.

What people need to do is just to go step by step.

Fate is always extraordinarily favorable to some people.

"Mona, I've been looking for you for a long time, are you here?"

A hairy arm suddenly rests on Mona's shoulder, interrupting her thoughts and sentiments.

Mona turned around and saw the tall Jerry.

Jerry's pale blond hair was dazzling in the sun.

In fact, his natural hair is not blond, but he himself is happy to show his half "noble" Germanic blood among his Burmese classmates.

So the hair has been dyed blonde.

As it turned out, quite a few girls at school found him sexy in this way.

In addition, Jerry's living habits are also very European.

Every day before school, I spray a generous amount of special cologne on my shoulders, collar, or armpits.

Jerry thought it would make him smell "strong," a foreign masculinity.

At this moment, Mona felt that she was enveloped by a strong smell of fermented herbs.

Resisting the urge to sneeze, she took two steps back slightly, shaking off the arm on her shoulder.

"Is something wrong?" she asked, frowning.

"Miss Mona, can I invite you to the cat café this afternoon? There are seven lovely British Bobtail cats there."

Jerry had a sunny and loving smile on his face.

He saw Mona and showed a heart-wrenching expression. He was a little disappointed, but he immediately added: "This is not a date, it's just a social welfare project introduced by my father. There is a team of college student directors who want to shoot a video about a newly adopted loving stray cat." The micro-movie will be uploaded to YouTube at that time. This kind of social activity is a bonus item when applying for college. I still have a place for the heroine of a micro-film here."

There was temptation in Jerry's tone.

Many foreign universities have rigid requirements for social service hours when applying.

Generally speaking, if you want to be fooled, ask an intermediary agency to issue a certificate, and find a cooperative NGO to stamp it to be considered qualified.

The micro-movie that Jerry talked about belongs to the category beyond the general qualification.

That's kind of an extra bonus.

If the micro-film can have hundreds of thousands of views, it can even beautify it as "has a certain social influence" on the resume.

Especially the subject of animal protection.

The admissions teams of famous foreign universities are very fond of such similar social activities, which can save you a lot of trouble when applying for universities.

"Sorry, Jerry, I want to continue working on my portfolio in the studio this afternoon, it's not very convenient."

Mona's heart was indeed moved for a moment, but she still refused.

Two people go to the pet store to shoot a micro movie, what is the difference between this and a date.

Jerry, a playboy who was popular with girls on campus in the past, is not stupid about what he thinks in his heart.

The mouth of others is soft, and the hands of others are soft.

Some people in the school are willing to share such a good project with social welfare points, so why should they find themselves.

Maybe it doesn't matter to those money-digging girls on campus who treat their boyfriends as mobile wallets.

But Mona was not such a girl.

"Okay, what about next weekend?"

The sunny smile on Jerry's face remained unchanged.

"forget it."

Mona still shook her head indifferently. She threw the empty paper coffee cup in her hand into the trash can, turned around and walked towards her half-drawn drawing board.

Kou Kou looked at Jerry who was leaving embarrassingly, looked at Mona's back, and sneered.

"Cut, you're still stubborn."

Mona hesitated for a long time before going back to a still life sketch she was halfway through, then took out her mobile phone from her pocket and found Gu Weijing who hadn't been in touch for a long time.

"How many days have you not come to the studio! Do you know that the school recruiting meeting is coming soon!"

She typed it halfway, then deleted it again.

I'm not fucking

Who cares about his life?
"I'm in the school studio on Sunday afternoon, come and come if you like."

Mona hesitated for a moment, and felt that this line seemed too deliberate.

She thought about it and deleted the second half of the sentence.

"I paint in the school studio on Sunday afternoons."

Mona read the short message several times over and over again, and finally pressed the send button.

……

Gu Weijing didn't notice the new message on the phone.

At this time, he was in the courtyard of the Lucky Orphanage.

Gu Weijing frowned and stood in front of the drawing board, looking at the canvas in front of him.

Under the guidance of curator Tonks, the inspiration to create an art work compatible with Chinese painting and oil painting styles was born.

He decided to start writing immediately.

Gu Weijing gave up the Impressionist-style color-mixing painting method he preferred, and decided to adopt the traditional oil painting painting method that is biased toward the classical style—abandoning the beauty of abstract visual impressions, and pursuing the precision of brushwork and the rigor of lines as the first priority , used to match the oriental meticulous painting style.

This is also impossible.

It's not that Impressionist painting is bad.

Impressionism itself is a product influenced by oriental painting styles, pursuing spiritual enjoyment and the overall macroscopic impression of the picture.

The principles of art and the traditional freehand brushwork of Chinese painting are actually very compatible.

However, he was quite awake,
Collocation is collocation, but also consider your own ability.

He knew that with his current understanding of Impressionism and freehand brushwork, he must not be able to control such high-end painting skills.

Impressionist pictures are more stream-of-consciousness.

Freehand painting pursues spirit more than substance.

The difficulty of combining these two painting styles is similar to mixing two invisible and substanceless gases in the void with both hands.

To achieve this step, non-master-level painting skills are impossible.

With the level of painting that I have just stepped into as a professional painter, the final result of the painting will definitely be "abstract" and shocking.

I want to draw a fusion picture,

With Gu Weijing's current painting level, there is not much room for free choice.

After thinking twice,
He decided to take the easiest method so far.

Based on the rigorous line structure of Chinese meticulous painting, the colors and brushstrokes of oil painting are used as flesh and blood details.

In the end, a painting with a realistic style is portrayed.

Realism is always the easiest way to draw.

This technique is definitely not simple, but it is definitely more feasible than trying to combine the essence of impressionism and freehand painting.

Since there is no way to pursue the spirit, we can only pursue the form first.

He also thought about the theme of the painting.

The inspiration was taken from Carroll's "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm".

It also uses the Good Luck Orphanage that he has already drawn as the background, but adds Jasmine and other children and several volunteers of different ages as the main characters in the picture.

Based on Gu Weijing's current ability, characters are more emotionally expressive choices than simple buildings.

The light is taken during the day.

Bright sunlight is also easier to portray vividly than the changing colors of thunderstorms.

In theory, this shouldn't be too difficult to draw.

Gu Weijing has been standing in front of the drawing board for six or seven hours since he came to the Lucky Orphanage this morning.

right now,

The finished work was right in front of his eyes.

Churches under the sun, children running, volunteers with armbands...

The whole piece of work seems to be decent, but a little more serious, Gu Weijing found a problem.

"weird."

Regardless of the process of painting or the final effect of the painting, Gu Weijing's biggest feeling is the word "weird".

He casually tossed over a painting and calligraphy identification technique.

【Work Title: "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun"】

[Sketch technique: 1705/5000]

【Oil painting techniques: 1302/5000】

——__——__——__——

[Chinese painting techniques: 609/5000]

【Emotion: Perfunctory】

The emotional evaluation is just perfunctory, almost the worst rating he has received for his work in recent days.

Gu Weijing is not surprised by this.

Not to mention empathizing with the characters on the screen, halfway through the painting, he was tortured by that weird feeling and almost couldn't draw anymore.

Just because it's his first attempt, he wants to follow through.

Gu Weijing pinched his nose and finished the painting.

He found that the data column of the virtual panel this time is different from the previous ones,

There is a dark and uneven divider like a shark's tooth, cutting the gap between sketching, oil painting techniques and Chinese painting techniques.

It seems that the system does not recognize that this is a fusion painting, and only thinks that the two painting methods are like two pieces of plasticine of different colors, forcibly squeezed together by external force.

From an artistic point of view, this is definitely a very failed painting.

The look and feel is not even as good as a simple oil painting.

Gu Weijing shook his head.

It is obvious that his meticulous lines and oil painting techniques have reached the level of a professional painter.

Logically speaking,
There shouldn't be any big mistakes,
But the final art effect is just weird.

If you regard a scroll as a beauty.

Gu Weijing originally hoped that she would have the beauty of the East and the charm of the West, that is, gentle and delicate.

But the final effect is like a painted skin female ghost.

The left half of the face grew into Lin Daiyu, and the right half of the face grew into Sophie Marceau.

This is a bit creepy

There is nothing wrong with the simple two techniques.

blend together,

But it has become a four different.

He was not discouraged, although the painting did not meet his expectations.

Gu Weijing would only find it strange if Gu Weijing could succeed in such a high-end painting method as fusion painting.

"Just, why is this happening?"

Unable to solve the disharmony of the picture, it is almost a death sentence for this painting method.

Gu Weijing struggled in the yard for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a final solution.

"Wait, I'm stupid."

He suddenly realized that he was different from before, Gu Weijing also had a teacher now.

Instead of thinking hard here, it is better to ask the experts.

……

"Professor Lin, can you give me some pointers on my paintings? I have encountered difficulties."

Beijing time is more than an hour later than Myanmar time.

Professor Lin Tao, who just woke up from a nap, heard the first sentence from Gu Weijing's phone call, and he heard the straightforward question from the other side.

"Oh, what's your problem?"

Professor Lin Tao did not refuse.

As Gu Weijing's current "teacher", although Professor Lin Tao felt that Mr. Cao's decision to accept closed disciples was a bit hasty.

He is very satisfied with Gu Weijing as a child.

Serious attitude, talented, quick entry.

It is easy to teach a student who is not enlightened and artistic, and the more he teaches, the more popular he becomes, but the more he teaches a good student like Gu Weijing, the more he likes it.

Even if it's not the weekly teaching time, Professor Lin Tao doesn't feel that Gu Weijing has disturbed him.

"I sent you the photo."

Gu Weijing said.

Professor Lin Tao took out an IPAD with a larger screen, and looked at the pictures sent by Gu Weijing.

Huh?
The first time he saw Gu Weijing's canvases, he was shocked.

(End of this chapter)