Almighty painter

Chapter 144
"Of course it's good." Gu Weijing nodded.

Uncle Sakai is very thoughtful.

He was just a middle school student, even if he was a student of an ordinary academy of fine arts, he would have been dizzy when he saw the long list of reviewers' names, let alone distinguishing the good and bad of these reviewers.

You can only fill in the recommended reviewer option like buying a lottery ticket, and pray that you will meet a kinder reviewer.

Then again,
The top liberal arts journals such as "Asian Art" are not for the students of ordinary art colleges or even professors of ordinary standards to submit articles.

"Well, the only disadvantage is that "Asian Art" is a semi-annual publication, and the review time is relatively long. There are only two issues per year. We may have to wait for a period of time for the page, as long as you are not in a hurry to sell your paintings."

Top journals like "Asian Art" are quite aloof, and they prefer lack of manuscripts to excess.

Every article has been carefully polished, which is in stark contrast to those water journals that can't wait to come to the last issue every week.

However, it is not difficult for Uncle Sakai to judge that they should pass the manuscript smoothly. It is almost March now, and if we hurry up, we will be scheduled for the page at the end of April, and it will appear in the publication after more than a month.

That's not at all too long for a top journal paper.

The title of "Asian Art" is also worth waiting for her.

The more advantage of "Taylor Journal of Art" is that it is a European journal. If it wants to develop in Europe in the future, its popularity will not be much lower than that of "Asian Art".

At the same time, the publication cycle is much shorter.

In addition, there is still a gap between the academic status and the old journal "Asian Art".

Sakai Katsuko was worried that Gu Weijing might be anxious to publish the thesis, so that he could quickly realize Carroll's oil painting.

That's going to be a lot of money.

From the moment Shengzi was born, if there were no accidents in this life, he didn't need to worry about money at all, and he didn't care much about money.

But she can't judge others by herself.

The vast majority of ordinary people in the world definitely hope that the paper will make the painting famous as soon as possible, and then sell the painting.

"No, I won't be in a hurry to sell this painting for the time being. I haven't fully grasped the essence of Carroll's painting. I almost feel it." Gu Weijing shook his head.

He hasn't eaten up the rewards from the system yet, and if he sells the painting, his copying progress will be greatly regressed.

"I didn't grasp the essence... In fact, you have already painted very well."

Sakai Katsuko thought for a while, and suggested: "It is difficult to grasp the essence of the paintings of impressionist masters with dark backgrounds. However, I have a little trick of coloring when I paint. I don't know if it sounds good. help."

"Huh?" Gu Weijing was curious.

"You can try to use a transparent acrylic board as a coloring tool. Compare the base color on the canvas and configure the paint. This is when I was just learning painting, my father was inspired by my mother's choice of cosmetics and taught me the enlightenment Method. It is usually used when trying to figure out the skin color of a painting character or a complex changing tone, which is very useful.”

"No, I'll show you."

There were no drawing tools in the study room, and Katsuko Sakai took out a transparent plastic ruler from the stationery bag while speaking.

She unbuttoned the sleeves of her school uniform, and folded up the material on the wrist of the shirt, revealing half of her white and clean arms.

Shengzi's skin is very fair, not that white like snow, like the medicinal lilac flowers in the park in April and May, white and greasy with pink oozing out, very girlish.

She put the transparent ruler on her forearm, wiped out three short tubes of lipstick from her pocket, and handed it to Gu Weijing.

"It's Chanel's Maple Syrup, Coral and Cream Cherry, which my mother gave me this morning."

"What?" Gu Weijing expressed with a confused expression that he didn't understand what Miss Shengzi was saying.

"It's the name of the color number of the lipstick. You can use it as an oil paintbrush and paint it on the ruler?" Sakai Katsuko suggested.

Gu Weijing took off the caps on the lipsticks, and twisted the heads of three almost identical lipsticks out.

He is an art student, so he is not like many boys who think that all lipsticks are the same, but he can still see the subtle differences in the colors of these three lipsticks.

The ability of these luxury brands to name people is unclear, but the color is basically red, not too much difference.

Gu Weijing dabbed lipstick on the ruler on Katsuko's forearm, and immediately understood the meaning of Sakai Katsuko asking him to prepare a transparent acrylic board for coloring.

The girl's arm is like a piece of oil canvas painted with pink and white background and extremely fine texture.

Lipstick is a paintbrush, and a ruler is a palette. The three lipsticks, which were originally only slightly different in color, suddenly showed different images against the smooth skin of Ms. Sakai.

Coral is cooler in color, creamy cherry is warmer in color, and maple syrup is in between.

"Well, this is equivalent to a special palette that can bring out the relationship between the background color of the picture and the paint at any time like a chameleon. It's a great idea."

Gu Weijing understood the trick with one click.

When he paints, he doesn't have high requirements for the palette. He uses the most basic three-ply wood palette that he buys on Amazon for five dollars a piece.

But Gu Weijing has heard that some great painters like to customize their own palettes.

Light shades, dark shades, and even different shades to number the palette.

David Fuzzelli, a romantic painter who was selected into the official French Salon, is a representative figure of this kind of artist who has high requirements for painting tools.

David once ordered 600 palettes of different shades from a painter in Paris at a cost of 92 francs. The color of each palette ranges from light to dark, from pure white to deep black.

It's not because of a painter's idiosyncrasy, or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The advantage is that the painter can choose different palettes according to different painting background colors and complex background character texture colors.

Beginners use white palettes most, because the canvas is white, and white palettes are the easiest to bring out the true color of the paint on it.

The background color of oil painting is not always white.

An oil painting with a black background, the paint you mixed on the white palette, and the color you put on the dark background after you put pen to paper.

Because the relationship between light and dark contrast in the picture is different, the feeling is also slightly different.

Based on this principle, if conditions permit.

When painting curtain colors and rainy days, you can use a beige palette.When painting the jungle, you can use the emerald color palette, and when the sun is setting, you can use the golden red palette as the base color to match the pigments, and it will be easier to find the color you want.

Uncle Sakai's idea is a simplified and advanced version of David.

Plastic palettes don't feel as good with pens as wooden palettes do.

But this kind of acrylic transparent board can directly put the paint you have prepared on the background color you just painted or even the original picture for comparison.

It is even easier to depict the fine texture brightness and landscape color according to the original paint tone.

"By the way, these three colors, Gu Weijing, which one do you like better?"

Sakai Katsuko picked up the ruler on her arm, glanced at the boy quietly, and asked casually.

"I don't know lipstick, let alone makeup."

Gu Weijing dared not give blind advice to others.

Before Miss Sakai, his only close friend of the opposite sex was Mona.

Mona likes makeup a lot of the time,

She knew that Gu Weijing didn't know much about these things, and his family conditions were average.So Mona never asked herself to buy her cosmetics as a birthday present or something.

Even the prices of those bottles, jars, lipsticks, eye creams, etc. in the bedroom would not be disclosed to Gu Weijing, probably because he was worried about putting psychological pressure on Gu Weijing.

In this regard, Miss Mona has always taken care of Gu Weijing.

However, she generally does not consult her little boyfriend's aesthetic opinions, and she can paint however she likes.

Gu Weijing only needs to say good-looking, really good-looking and very good-looking when hanging out together.

"It's okay, I don't really understand. These three lipsticks were given to me by my mother, so I'm asking you guys for your opinions."

I heard that my precious daughter, who has always been plain-faced, finally got the hang of it and wanted to make it more beautiful with makeup.

In the morning, Mrs. Sakai stared at Katsuko Sakai in a half-happy, half-complicated mood, then chose three lipsticks from the drawer and threw them to her daughter.

After Sakai Katsuko came to the study room early, she hesitated for a long time in front of the small vanity mirror, not sure which lipstick color was more suitable for her.

"Give me a suggestion, just treat it as a painting, use my skin suit as a canvas. If you want to paint on me, what color do you think looks better as a color matching?" Sakai Katsuko lowered his head , I straightened my hair.

Skin as a drawing board?

Gu Weijing's mind suddenly appeared in a classic passage from the biographical film "Liu Rushi" of Dongxia that he had seen more than ten years ago, which was highly rated by Douban.

Liu Ru was one of the famous eight beauties of the Qinhuai River in the Ming Dynasty.

On the wedding night, the talented girl Liu took off her wedding dress and asked Qian Qianyi to draw a flower on her smooth back with a brush.

The tulle is low, the skin is as white as jade, and the blue is ink...

In the late Ming Dynasty, the old man Qian was not guaranteed in the late Ming Dynasty, and his notoriety followed the number one traitor of the same period, Hong Chengchou.

At least from an artistic point of view, this shot is quite beautiful.

Gu Weijing glanced at Miss Shengzi's slender waist, shook his head hard, slapped himself twice in his heart, and secretly put aside the thought that he was so fragrant that it would make nosebleeds.

He knew that Shengzi couldn't be telling dirty jokes or teasing himself at this time.

Ms. Sakai just gave an example.

Moreover, painting on naked clothes has a long tradition in Japan.There used to be a custom of Danqing tattoos in the coastal areas of Japan in history, and women like to use the slurry of natural herbs to draw brocade, flower and other patterns on their backs and arms.

Later, influenced by the Confucianism in the Eastern Xia cultural circle, "the body, hair and skin, should not be destroyed by the parents", men also began to use paintings instead of tattoos.

This habit has been handed down to the Edo and even the Meiji period.In the early ukiyo-e that is circulating today, there are a large number of tattooed or painted samurai and kabuki content.

The content of the drawing has changed from simple flowers, birds, fish and insects to local myths and classic story images in local storybook novels such as "The Story of the Heike".

In modern times, the British Academy of Fine Arts has conducted a survey, and the acceptance of body painting in Japan ranks only behind a few European countries such as New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Australia, and ranks first in Asian countries with conservative overall cultural tendencies.

"Cherry cream?"

Gu Weijing looked at the three lipsticks on the ruler, watching the nose and the heart: "This color is softer, and it suits Miss Shengzi's warm pink complexion."

"Cherry cream."

"Yes, and the name sounds very cute." Gu Weijing scratched his hair.

Sakai Katsuko took out the lipstick with [Cherry and Cream] written in small bronzing letters on it, and lightly dotted it around the lip line.

"uh-huh?"

She pursed her lips, showed the color of her lips to the boy, and uttered a playful nasal voice asking for his opinion, looking extremely cute.

Gu Weijing was slightly taken aback.

"Does it look good?"

"nice."

Ms. Sakai is really a good girl, she is cool and cute, and she has a common language.

Even without emotion,

It is also a pleasure to work with such a young lady.Even if she just stayed quietly by the side, she was as pleasing to the eye as a beautiful big doll.

"By the way, speaking of painting, after the thesis is completed, Katsuko, you continue to paint in the school's public studio?" Gu Weijing issued an invitation: "You are also copying and studying Ms. Carroll's "The Old Church", right? , may I invite you to one of my outdoor studios?"

After copying more than a dozen old churches, Gu Weijing has long been able to grasp the similarity of the brush to a very good level.

However, in the evaluation of the system panel, the similarity between his current copied work and the original "Old Church" is stuck at about 35%.

The highest one was only 37.6%.

The system's baseline for obtaining mid-level treasure chests is 50.00%, and the last ten percent is like an insurmountable moat.

Gu Weijing can vaguely feel that 50.00% is a threshold.

Although there is still room for improvement in his grasp of color matching and pigments.

But to achieve more than 50% similarity, what is pursued is no longer just the matching of paints and the meticulousness of brushwork...but a deeper feeling, an overall temperament of painting.

To explain in a more popular way, from the requirement of similarity in shape to the requirement of similarity in spirit.

Apart from the appearance of thunderstorm clouds, the old church, which is the main body of the picture, and the changing candlelight, are quite different from the temperament of this master painter.

The best way to achieve the similarity is to paint on the spot like the female painter Carroll.

Gu Weijing knew that Sakai Katsuko had been copying "The Old Church" recently, so he suggested that the other party, like himself, change the studio to an orphanage.

"It's the Lucky Orphanage, right? You want to be on the spot."

Katsuko Sakai knew the filming location of Carroll's original work, and her eyes showed yearning.

(End of this chapter)