Almighty painter

Chapter 179 Experience Exchange
After discussing with Uncle Alai, Gu Weijing decided to temporarily requisition the janitor's lodge as a temporary studio for him and Ms. Katsuko Sakai.

Painting in the open air in the rain may be seen in romantic love movies, but it is definitely not realistic.

After thinking about it,

Unless a shed is built, Uncle Alai's house is the most suitable choice.

From the small window of the porter's house, it happens that the whole view of the old church can almost be seen, which is almost the scene in Carroll's painting.

Sakai Katsuko is still on the way,

Together with Uncle Alai, Gu Weijing moved the table by the window to the iron canopy bed in the back room, and then put two wooden easels on the left and the right.

Miss Molly was making tea by the stove.

Gu Weijing looked at this ancient religious building through the window.

In the rain, it stands firmly on the ground under its feet, unmoving.

In many parts of the Western world, churches are ancient buildings that have been integrated with time.

If you don't pay attention to the mottled weathering traces left by the years on the surface of the masonry, just look at the light red round roof, milky white building walls and tender green window borders.

Even though the actual age of this orphanage is older than Gu Weijing's grandfather, the appearance is even a bit fashionable.

Churches are perhaps one of the most varied and complex buildings in the world.

Therefore, depicting these churches has almost become the best opportunity for oil painters to express their exquisite brushwork.

Each piece of work is like milestones and monuments to test one's great skills.

Almost any famous oil painter famous for landscape painting in Europe has painted this kind of subject, which makes the church-themed works dazzling in art textbooks.

Onion-style Byzantine churches, round-vaulted Roman churches, Gothic churches with sharp edges and corners, like bamboo shoots plunging into the sky, retro and elegant Renaissance, and magnificent Baroque structures...

Raphael, Manet, Monet, Henri Matisse, Picasso...

The audience can easily see a complete history of architectural trends and oil painting techniques in the works of famous artists of different ages.

Gu Weijing judged that the old church where the Lucky Orphanage was originally located should belong to the Rococo church that was popular around the eighteenth century.

This architectural design is relatively simple in appearance.

Concise and lively, slim and charming, I like to use light-toned, fresh and natural style architectural language and artistically beautiful curved curves.

Its biggest advantage is that it costs less to build. Compared with the Gothic cathedral, which is hundreds of meters high and often needs to be calculated in units of centuries, it saves a lot of time and effort.

Many classic churches from the colonial era follow this style.

Although simple,
However, the heart-shaped windows on the walls of the Good Luck Orphanage are still inlaid with exquisite stained glass windows like those of the gorgeous churches in Europe.

A lot of stained glass has actually fallen and shattered many years ago. Fortunately, the stained glass windows facing the front of the concierge have generally maintained their old style.

The rainbow-like hazy and dreamy candlelight refracted by the stained glass windows is precisely the most beautiful and eye-catching highlight in the painting "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm" by the female painter Carroll, and it is also the most difficult part to describe.

Even with the help of calligraphy and painting appraisal technique, it is very difficult for him to imitate.

It's not like Lang Shining inventing a new style of painting, it's more about the difficulty of the painting concept, purely the difficulty of the actual oil painting brushwork.

This is the crown of the difficulty of oil painting copying. Brushwork experience needs a little accumulation.

The female painter painted candlelight, just like an ingenious old craftsman who used thousands of pieces of kingfisher feathers, coral and agate to inlay a crown of emerald flowers.

The gloomy canvas surface of "Old Church in a Thunderstorm" and the rainbow-like luster of color are all painted on with meticulous brushwork little by little.

The so-called master-level oil painting techniques are most prominently reflected here.

Not to mention creating by myself, it is difficult to draw the spirit of Carroll himself in the original work that Gu Weijing compared with each other.

[Current task: Choose to copy an impressionist work whose oil painting technique has reached the first level of a Lv.7 master. 】

[1. Reach a copying similarity of more than 20%, and get a primary treasure box. 】

[2. Reach a copying similarity of more than 50%, and get an intermediate treasure chest. 】

[3. Reaching a similarity of more than 90% to obtain a limited reward: Ray Noah - Fragment of a ghost in the world, this reward can only be obtained once. 】

[Currently the highest similarity of copying: 39.1%]

"Let's see if we can use the real scene to paint today, cross ten percent, and get the intermediate treasure box." He slowly calculated in his mind.

The sound of a car engine came from a distance, and a black and brown Mercedes-Benz slid in through the opened courtyard door.

The car door opened, and as the hotel driver in white gloves opened the back door for the guests, a slim girl in a dark red dress appeared in Gu Weijing's field of vision.

Katsuko Sakai took the umbrella from the driver, stood in the yard for a while, and looked intently at the orphanage in front of her.

It's hard to believe,

She wrote a dissertation for this old church, and she also copied nearly ten original works by Carroll, but this was the first time the girl came to the field.

At this time, the rain was pouring, and the thunder continued,
Sakai Katsuko felt as calm as reuniting with an old friend who had known each other for many years.

"Shengzi, here."

Holding a gas lamp, Gu Weijing ran out from the gatehouse, stood under the eaves and waved to Katsuko Sakai.

The girl turned her head, with a smile on her face, and ran towards Gu Weijing in small steps.

As she approached, Gu Weijing was a little amazed that Katsuko Sakai looked extraordinarily beautiful tonight.

The other party didn't wear the conservative school uniform with a shirt and a dark coat in the past, but changed into a small red skirt that could accentuate her figure.

She didn't wear stockings either, so her plump long legs were exposed.

Sakai Katsuko should have put on some makeup, which is rare.

Compared with Kou Kou, Ms. Sakai's makeup technique seems to be a bit raw, but it can show the girl's natural beauty even more.

Her cheeks are soft, and the dark eye shadow highlights the layers of the already beautiful facial features.

The light from the gas lamp cast a warm glow on her.

This made Sakai Katsuko look pure and sexy, as if she had suddenly grown up from the girl next door, with more charm of a mature woman.

because of running,

Shengzi's face was a little flushed, against which her skin was as white as jade.

"Today's weather is really nice, Gu Jun."

Sakai Katsuko walked up the small steps of the porter's room, gently tugged on Gu Weijing's sleeve, and whispered in the other's ear, with a slight joy in his tone, as if it was the first time a little girl flew out of a golden cage. lark.

"nice weather?"

Gu Weijing looked at the dark clouds in the sky as low as the sky covering the church steeple, and joked with a smile.

Miss Sakai lowered her head, her cheeks turned even redder.

The words were just spoken,

Sakai Katsuko felt that she was really clumsy to say such incomprehensible words.

The phone call with Taro Komatsu before departure filled Katsuko Sakai with a sense of lightness of letting go of the burden.

She is very happy now, her eyes are clear, and she has a thousand words to say.

Sakai Katsuko originally wanted to say that today is really a good time to copy oil paintings. I wanted to say that this is the first time I sneaked out from under the eyes of adults. I wanted to say that I am very happy to copy with you. I wanted to say that the female painter Carol Senior The painting "Old Church in a Thunderstorm" should have been completed in such weather back then...

Seeing Gu Weijing's face, countless words converged on his lips, and suddenly turned into one sentence, today's weather is really nice.

She herself thought it sounded stupid.

"Uh..." Sakai Katsuko wanted to explain.

"You're right, today's weather is really nice." Gu Weijing smiled suddenly, looked into Sakai Katsuko's eyes, then looked up at the lightning that just passed in the sky, and repeated, "It's really good .”

Sakai Katsuko suddenly felt that she didn't need to explain anymore.

So the girl pursed her lips again and just stood there laughing.

"Gu Jun, let's start writing."

Sakai Katsuko walked into Uncle Alai's concierge hut, saw two transparent acrylic palettes on the window sill, and smiled knowingly again.

There is no original relic of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" in the room.

The orphanage did not have the conditions to store such precious works of art, so it was not too much of a hindrance for Sakai Katsuko and Gu Weijing, who had already copied many original paintings.

Ms. Carroll's original painting has been engraved in their minds.

Moreover, there is no need to rely too much on the original work. The biggest advantage of copying the original site of Carroll's painting is that the living painting actually exists in front of him.

As long as you look out the rainy night through the small window of the porter's room, it will be a real old church in a thunderstorm day.

"Wait a minute, Jasmine?"

Gu Weijing shouted towards the room.

The little girl in the blue skirt ran over from the stove in the back room holding two small black tea bowls.

Jasmine put a tea bowl next to Gu Weijing, opened her dark eyes, looked at Katsuko Sakai on the side with longing and low self-esteem.

In her limited life, the little girl has only seen the dirty dolls in the orphanage and the occasional volunteers who come here for voluntary service.

She has never seen such a noble, elegant and beautiful big sister.

Jasmine has reached the age when she vaguely knows beauty.

Beauty has a celestial aura.

It's like an ugly duckling meeting a white swan, even though Sakai Katsuko is the kind of girl with a very gentle temperament, Jasmine is still contrasted by the other party like a small black briquette, unable to lift her head with low self-esteem.

"The bowl is too hot..."

Seeing Katsuko Sakai landed on the gap on the edge of the old tea bowl in the orphanage, Jasmine lowered her head in embarrassment, rubbed her right hand vigorously on her skirt, and then carefully handed the tea bowl to the other party.

"Clean, sister, not dirty..."

"Thank you."

Sakai Katsuko smiled gently at the little girl, took the tea bowl, and put it by the window.

"Sister, you are so beautiful. I want to be half as beautiful as you in the future, no, just one third." Seeing that Katsuko Sakai was not cold and unapproachable, Jasmine became a little more courageous and said enviously.

"You also have a pair of beautiful eyes, I am very envious."

Katsuko Sakai stroked Jasmine's hair and encouraged her softly.

Jasmine's face turned red immediately, she lowered her head shyly and wanted to run away, but Gu Weijing held her back.

"Jasmine, remember what I told you before, the second window from left to right, if you can't reach it, ask Uncle Alai to help you."

Gu Weijing handed over an umbrella and whispered a few words beside Miss Jasmine.

The little girl nodded, picked up her umbrella, and disappeared into the night.

After about a few minutes,

The flickering light from a candlestick slowly lit up in the church.

The beating candlelight in the rainy night, with the solemnity of a religious ceremony, is just like the scenes written by the female painter Carroll back then.

"Let's start now."

Gu Weijing began to mix turpentine and linseed oil at a ratio of 1:1 to dilute the paint.

The rain has never stopped or diminished, and the light from the gas lamp has a warm temperature, shining in the studio that is used as a small porter.

The young men and women were next to each other, and the skins on their arms occasionally touched each other, carrying each other's body temperature, but no one spoke.

Both of them are enjoying the tacit silence, focusing on copying each other's memory.

Gu Weijing gently mixed a little bit of ivory black and Windsor purple with a spatula on the acrylic board, and held it in front of his forehead.

He found that he didn't need to put a transparent palette on the background of the drawing board to grasp the shades of colors.

At this time, the real world outside the window is like a vivid canvas. Gu Weijing can even completely separate this small piece of plastic, trying to imprint and blend the prepared paint with the real color.

It is for this reason,

Instead, Gu Weijing slowly began to become confused, and he hesitated a little in his smooth brushwork.

Impressionism is the aesthetics of capturing light,

It is the eternal artistic pursuit of Impressionist painters to capture and freeze the ever-changing light and color under the pen.

This light is usually referred to as sunlight.Therefore, for a while, Impressionism was even called the Sunshine School.

Carroll did the opposite, using psychedelic and gorgeous brushwork to paint a scene of a thunderstorm.

But everything remains the same,

The soul of this painting is still light, the candlelight mixed with the lightning flowing in the sky, seems to be a gorgeous aurora sealed in amber.

When copying the original, Gu Weijing didn't feel anything.

But at this time,
He clearly felt a lack.

Gu Weijing gently tapped the acrylic palette with his fingertips, pondering and hesitating, as if making some kind of decision.

His sixth sense told him that if he wanted to get the mid-level treasure chest rewarded by the system, he could continue drawing like this—it wasn’t enough.

Gu Weijing reopened the virtual panel and found the charitable wealth exchange panel.

[Experience exchange panel:]

[Currently assignable free experience points: [-]]

(End of this chapter)