Almighty painter

Chapter 170 Commendation Meeting

Myanmar in early March is not the rainy season in Southeast Asia in the traditional sense.

But the rain in Yangon is the tears of a passionate girl, and it always comes when it is said.

On the Dulwich College campus in the rain, the European-style auditorium building made of black bricks and the white lights flickering in the windows are like a roll of black and white old movies, flowing with the unique texture of old film in the golden age of the early [-]th century.

A melodious symphony sounded from the auditorium.

The Youtube video played on the 350-inch large laser projector in the center of the auditorium is coming to an end.

on the screen,

The protagonist of the microfilm, played by the blond young man Jerry, is holding an old Doberman pinscher who is about to be euthanized in the stray pet rescue center and weeps silently.

On the screen, the slogan "To love animals is to love ourselves" (To love animals is to love ourselves) in English cursive letters is displayed as the slogan of the micro-movie.

"Teachers and students, the animal protection micro-movie "Lost Love" starring Jerry Lorenz, a classmate in grade 13, was just shown."

The hostess spoke passionately to the full house of classmates.

"At the Yangon International College Student Film Festival that just ended this Wednesday, the microfilm won the [Excellent Love Award] and received a special report in the "Yangon Economic Weekly". Let us applaud the outstanding students now."

Mona, who presided over the commendation meeting, put down the cue card in her hand and applauded lightly with a smile on her face.

With the lead of the Girls Student Council President,

So in the auditorium, the Dulwich students applauded and discussed a lot.

"Boss is amazing!" Jerry's school team boy cheered vigorously and clapped his hands vigorously.

"It's so caring. I'm about to cry, the dog is so pitiful."

The sentimental girl wiped her tears vigorously when she saw the scene where the Doberman Pinscher was put into the pet nitrogen chamber at the end of the screen.

This nitrogen chamber is specially designed for euthanasia of elderly pets.
With elevated levels of nitrogen in the cabin, the dogs are painlessly put into a stupor, and the market price is as high as $2500 on Amazon, sponsored by Papa Jerry's company Kindness Charity.

"This time he showed his face. It's amazing. I think Jerry has the demeanor of a Hollywood star. He wears perfume every day when he goes to school. Our local boys don't even have this kind of upbringing habits, and they are not gentlemen at all." Jerry The attention of the little fans is more focused on the handsome blond guy.

"Tch, I don't think this micro movie is so well made."

There are also some people who secretly poked at the school's behavior of mobilizing teachers and mobilizing people, expressing sourness: "Isn't our school's film club shooting a lot of micro-films all year round, and they are just released randomly on school festivals or club days. A dedicated commendation meeting was held.”

"Idiot, the point is not micro-movies, it's love—do you understand love!"

A classmate next to him immediately refuted him: "Can the film club of our school win an award at the College Student International Film Festival? Can reporters do some special reports? This can all be written in the school's enrollment brochure for next year. If you can do it , The school will also hold a special commendation meeting for you."

It is the scene of the Campus Commendation Ceremony of Dulwich College International School.

Jerry Lorenz, a student in grade 13, participated in the filming of the charity micro-movie, and the effect was surprisingly good.

Not only did it win an award at the College Student Film Festival in Yangon, but there was even a reporter's special topic titled "Facing Death - The Last Journey of Companion Pets", which reported on the pet euthanasia love project founded by Jerry.

Even if it's just a [-]-character newsletter on the seventh page of a newspaper, the size of a block of tofu.

But "Yangon Economic Weekly" is a mainstream media affiliated to the serious city government, not a gossip tabloid or a worthless self-media.

This is of great significance to a private aristocratic school like Dulwich College.

The school board specially decided to hold a special commendation meeting in the afternoon, and even the European headquarters of Dulwich College International Education Group sent congratulatory emails.

In such a noisy public place,
Gu Weijing sat in the corner of the senior group seat as usual.

Compared with micro-movies, his mind is still more on copying yesterday.

The webpage on the IPAD he holds in his hand is the homepage of "The Shape of Power·Lang Shining's New Style Painting Exhibition" produced by the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 17. From time to time, he picks out a few paintings and enlarges them for appreciation.

The painting methods of Lang Shining's works can be roughly divided into two categories.

On the whole, the works are still created using the "Western heavy color" technique of Chinese brushwork as the body and Western color as the use.

This kind of work is mainly composed of flowers, birds, vegetation, landscapes, and the painting method is relatively simple to learn.

Once you realize it, you will be able to understand [-]% or [-]% of it.

On this basis, after adding accurate sketch line modeling and exquisite focus perspective proportion style, it can still completely retain the oriental charm, and ingeniously integrate the essence of Chinese painting, oil painting and sketch painting into one "line" Draft painting" painting method.

Compared with "Western heavy color" painting, it is much more difficult,
If we say that Western heavy color is like knitting a sweater, Chinese painting and oil painting are knitted together.

Then the line draft painting is like Qingwen, the maid in "A Dream of Red Mansions", who mends Jia Baoyu's fur, using the extremely thin "golden peacock thread" of sketch to carve patterns on the clothes.

In addition to the more difficult way of painting, the requirements for proficiency in using a pen are higher.

"Chinese painting is charm, oil painting is flesh and blood, and sketching is the skeleton. There is nothing wrong with all three."

Gu Weijing quickly summed up the main points of line drawing.

Although there is only an extra sketch, compared with the heavy color of Western method, the look and feel of the line drawing is better, and the characters and buildings are more realistic by more than an order of magnitude.

Sketch is known as the basis of modern painting,

If the ambition is not limited to small flowers and grasses, if you want to accurately restore buildings and characters, you will inevitably need the help of sketch lines.

Drawing a small flower and grass like a bean flower picture, the lines are not three-dimensional and the proportion is not enough to restore, it is actually nothing.

The audience will not always regard the bean curd as the cauliflower.

But architectural paintings and figure paintings, especially after incorporating oil painting techniques, if the proportions and structures are wrong, they will look like but not like.

Then maybe the audience's uncomfortable goosebumps will come out.

When a painted image closely resembles, but not quite, a natural, living person, it immediately produces in some people an emotional response of irrepressible disgust.

Psychologically, this artistic impression is called the "uncanny valley" effect.

The oil painting teacher would say, either follow the realistic genre, or don’t be realistic, and you must not be half-half-this statement is correct, but it is not absolutely absolute.

Masters of real art who have perfected their skills can take the initiative to integrate this theory into their works long before it is researched by psychologists.

For example, the peerless old scumbag Picasso,

After he got tired of playing with a certain lover and wife, he liked to use this method to uglify and demonize them in his works.

The most typical example is one of his works that was auctioned for 1997 million US dollars in 7800.

Picasso deliberately painted his second wife, a beautiful Russian ballerina who danced for a living, with wrong and deformed leg structures and bones, so that the audience seemed to have fear, in order to express his love for "women in marriage" of disgust.

However, Gu Weijing is still far from the level of a great artist. If he wants to forcibly play with such advanced techniques, he can only imitate him and definitely go to his grandma's house.

What he pursues now is still the most basic painting.

Gu Weijing carefully studied the two representative line drawings of Castiglione Castiglione's realistic figures in the painting exhibition, "Emperor Qianlong's Reading Picture" and "Concubine Xuan Picture".

He compared the new body painting in his mind to analyze, and slowly analyzed the beauty of these paintings, thinking about how he should imitate.

If you want to participate in the works of the Lion City Art Exhibition, figures and buildings are indispensable.

Collector Chen Shenglin designed the picture composition for himself so exquisitely, Gu Weijing didn't want to give up the original painting plan and paint some simple flowers and grasses instead.

It's a shame.

So line drawing is a test that I must pass.

The perspective structure and proportional lines of the sketch can be closer to the scenes seen by human eyes in nature, and have inherent advantages in the ability to restore the scene.

This is the fastest way to grab the audience and judges' first glance.

Chinese paintings focus more on charm and spirit, which can only be seen through careful appreciation of cultural accumulation.

The two were difficult to combine.

At this time, Mr. Cao instructed himself to practice a lot of line drawing sketches that combined sketching techniques and line drawing techniques, and the effect was reflected.

Gu Weijing has drawn more than a hundred line drawing sketches, and has experience in the integration of Chinese painting line drawing and sketching techniques. At this time, learning Castiglione's drawing ideas will be much faster.

"So Boring...Help!!! (I'm bored to death, help!)"

Gu Weijing was watching an art exhibition when a message came from his IPAD, and someone sent him a new message on social software.

He put away the album, opened the software, and found that it was a message from Miss Sakai.

In addition to writing papers with Gu Weijing and going to the studio to draw pictures,

After Katsuko Sakai transferred to Dulwich College, she almost never participated in any group activities in the school, and did not even add grade groups and class groups on Whatsapp.

Outside the advanced class,

She has almost zero social attitude with other classmates of the same year.

Therefore, there have been rumors in the school that Ms. Sakai is quite cold and doesn't like to make friends with others.

Miss Shengzi once complained to him, which was what her mother asked her to do.

Mrs. Sakai believes that since she is not from the same world anyway, it is not good to get too close to these Burmese natives.

It is estimated that we will see each other again in half a year, and it is also a sad thing to really make friends.

Moreover,
My daughter is pure-minded, you treat others as friends, and others regard you as a way to get rich.

If in the future these people will lick their faces and beg to come to the door, and they will be bothered whether to help or not, it is better to keep a distance as much as possible from the beginning, so hello me, hello everyone.

Cold with shrewdness, cruel and realistic, the signature Mrs. Sakai's way of doing things.

Think about it this way,

In that conversation, Mrs. Sakai set two requirements for herself, and she really thinks highly of herself in her heart.

"I have been listening to the Emerald Lecture with my mother for half an hour at sea, and I am almost falling asleep." Sakai Katsuko sent a sleepy expression.

Gu Weijing remembered that Miss Katsuko was dragged by her mother to go to the beach with Taro Komatsu today, and she didn't come to school at all.

When it comes to Sakai Katsuko, a student who is randomly selected from the top ten art schools in the world, and will not become a great artist in 20 years is a surprising "injured Zhongyong" student.

The willingness to transfer to Dulwich College in Yangon is a ancestral grave for the Yangon school.

The school board wished to enshrine her as a little ancestor.

School rules and discipline are just a joke to others, and there is absolutely no one who wants to take care of them if they don't want to come to school.

Gu Weijing closed the chat software, opened Katsuko Sakai's homepage on Instagram, and saw that she had just updated her photo wall.

From the photo record,
Katsuko Sakai went to the seaside port to pick up shells in the morning.

Aman Hotel has a large private golden beach in Yangon Port. Whenever the tide ebbs, all kinds of seashells, large and small, will be left on the beach.

The photo with the most likes had more than 1 views within a few hours.

The temperature in March in Yangon is already quite high.

In the photo, Sakai Katsuko is wearing a one-piece beach swimsuit, her straight thighs and arms are exposed, and she is stepping on a sea clam shell the size of a snare drum with bare feet, facing the sea, and the other The calf is tilted back high.

I don't know if it was because Katsuko Sakai just swam or it was raining lightly.
Her hair was wet and stuck to the back of her neck, but her skin was very white and moist. Her plump body formed a clear contrast with the golden sand and blue sea.

The photo of this scene is really like a romantic oil painting, a marble statue of Venus, the goddess of beauty, by the sea, it is really beautiful.

Gu Weijing smiled, and quietly liked this photo, and then continued to scroll down the INS following the timeline.

Miss Sakai ate paella at a seaside restaurant at noon, and went out to sea with her mother in the afternoon.

Counting the time, when I sent myself a message to accuse her of being bored to death, I should be on a treasure ship.

Gambling boats that open gambling houses on the unregulated high seas are common in the world, and they can be found in all countries, but the Emerald Treasure Ship is a feature of Myanmar.

Jade sales are a very profitable industry, and it is also the mainstay of Myanmar's economy outside of tourism.

According to the law, all Myanmar emerald ore mines are state-owned, and most of the private jadeite transactions you can see are illegal.

So some have treasure ships specially for the wealthy.

The owner of the private mine will transport the top-quality emerald ore to a cruise ship registered in Cayman or Panama, and then drive it to the high seas, so that it is convenient to open some unsupervised private disks for guests to choose their favorite emeralds.

For example, in the photo that Ms. Sakai just posted 5 minutes ago,

Next to Taro Komatsu, there is a little brother of the crew who looks like a servant, holding a large plate of high-quality jadeite rings, bracelets, and jade plaques in his hands. He should be explaining the beauty of each jewelry to the guests on board. .

Sakai Katsuko's INS accompanying text is very cute - I pretend to listen but I was bored to die (I really tried to listen, but I was so bored that I was about to die).

(End of this chapter)