Almighty painter

Chapter 197 First Draft Completed
"What are you doing?"

Old man Wu walked impatiently at the gate of the yard.

Fortunately, a cigar can be smoked for quite a long time, and he didn't find it too boring, so he regarded it as smoking.

"Old Gu probably wants to give his grandson the name of developing Castiglione's painting style. This is really pitiful for the parents of the world. Only a grandpa would do this. The reason is probably... to borrow Give Xiao Gu a chance to make a name for himself?"

Old man Wu thought for a moment, and thought he had grasped Gu Tongxiang's mental journey.

"Just say it straight, and still play this set in front of me."

He is a little funny, but also a little poignant.

The artists seem to be high-class and high-class, but if you look at them one by one with a magnifying glass, they are actually ordinary people.

Everyone is living a real life,

There are shameless villains everywhere in this business, and there are also some real gentlemen of morality.

It has not been uncommon since the Middle Ages to steal the inspiration and creativity of apprentices, and snatch the precious opportunity of becoming famous, such as painting noble lords and archbishops, from students.

A tougher person.

Not only did he take away the student's chance, but he also treated him to death, treating the student like a slave, pressing down on the other party to suck blood, and not giving him any chance to get out of the teacher's control.

Conversely, masters who are willing to lie on the ground and let younger generations step on themselves to become famous can also be encountered in the industry.

It can only be said that you are lucky to meet the former as a teacher.

When encountering the latter, it is a blessing that has been cultivated in several lifetimes.

And this kind of behavior that is willing to give up the scenery brought by the painting experience that you have researched to the younger generation is equivalent to the professor writing a heavyweight paper by himself, and the result is your name.

usually,
The only answer is that the professor is your real father.

It is really not easy to engage in art here in Myanmar.

The elders have worked hard all their lives and left all the good things to the younger generations, hoping that the future generations can take advantage of this shareholder wind to rush out of this chaotic land.

"Old Gu has also worked hard."

Old man Wu thought of this episode, gradually substituting it a little bit, and his nose started to feel sore.

It took about a few minutes.

He saw that Gu Weijing seemed to have finally finished his pretentious pointing, and even pretended to hold a brush, and drew two strokes on the unfinished peony picture.

"Tch, it's still acting like the real thing."

Seeing this, old man Wu walked back.

He decided to rely on old Gu's hard work, no matter how bad Gu Weijing's painting was, he would not point it out, and went to cheer him up.

"Old Gu, you have a heart, you really look forward to Sun Chenglong."

Old man Wu is in the midst of being moved by himself.

He sighed: "However, is Xiao Gu's level able to accept this gift from you? Even if you can learn one stroke at a time at this age, I'm afraid the gap with your level is quite obvious. Even if you impose this limelight on Outsiders may not believe in grandson."

Old man Wu lowered his head, pointed to the table in front of Gu Weijing, and said, "Look at this brush, look at this painting skill, it can reach half your level...fuck me!"

He glanced at the ink-smudged peonies on the rice paper written by Gu Weijing, and almost threw the cigar out of his hand.

He saw the lightness of Gu Weijing's pen tip,

The brush is adjusted to titanium dioxide, the tip of the pen is covered with rouge, and the side edge of the brush is used to skim and pick, a piece of petals that are red and white, and white and powdery, float on the paper.

Large petals, small petals, receptacle, staggered.

Rich and elegant, easy and noble.

It only took about a minute or two, after Gu Weijing changed several brushes of different sizes, and picked out the pale golden stamens and thin leaves of vine yellow respectively.

A complete picture of peonies appeared vividly on the paper, during which he did not even hesitate in his movements, and the painting was vivid and fragrant.

"Grandpa Wu, look, isn't it better?"

Gu Weijing put down his pen, and smiled politely at the gaping old neighbor.

Old man Wu was still dazed by the side.

He stared at the rice paper in front of Gu Weijing for a long time, like a stone statue, until Gu Tongxiang patted him on the shoulder.

"How is it?"

Gu Tongxiang didn't care that old man Wu watched his grandson draw.

There are many experiential things in painting, and there is no teacher who breaks down the key points in a particularly detailed way, and tells you from the beginning to the end.

Just watching other people's paintings, the things that can be stolen are very limited.

It's a bit like watching a pilot flying a plane in a YouTube video, but it's just a step-by-step push of the joystick to turn on the switch on the panel.

It looks very simple, but it requires professional study according to the teaching materials.

Otherwise, even if you draw in front of your face, you won't even understand why the painter uses the brush like this, why he draws the lines like this.

and,

Old man Wu is not a professional painter either.

From a layman's point of view, the most quintessential method is even more exciting.

Old man Gu Tongxiang enjoyed looking at old man Wu's dumbfounded look of surprise.

He was so shocked by his grandson two days ago.

Now it's Gu Weijing who shocks others, but he, as a grandfather, has a completely different feeling.

It's... so cool!

Old man Wu still didn't speak.

At this time, the way he looked at Gu Weijing, he didn't just feel that he didn't know this young man anymore, he was looking at an alien.

It's like a big living person, with a "boom!", it directly becomes a monster by your side.

"Outrageous... Damn, it's outrageous..."

His eyes were staring like copper bells, and he muttered a few words in a low voice.

Old man Wu's world view was impacted.

He also ignored the practice that smoking a cigar can't pass the lungs, and took a fierce puff of the cigarette, using the surge of nicotine in the blood to calm his mood.

"incredible."

He waited until he exhaled two long streams of smoke with the smell of burning plants from his nose, then he said softly and slowly.

"Old Gu, you are right. Why should I teach this kind of painting to others..."

Old Man Wu shrugged his shoulders and said in silence for a few seconds: "This is a job that can be eaten by future generations. You can pretend that I didn't mention the lecture."

"It's amazing, Lao Gu, it's amazing."

"It's not that I'm awesome, it's that my grandson is promising."

"it's the same."

Old man Wu shook his head: "If my grandson has the ability of Xiao Gu, I'll be happier than myself."

Gu Tongxiang didn't deny it either, put his hand in, and smiled like a Maitreya Buddha: "Brother, you should obey now."

At this moment, old man Wu didn't even think about arguing with Gu Tongxiang.

If Lao Gu figured out something, to be honest, he was a little jealous because of his vanity.

But now it looks like it was really made by his grandson Gu Weijing... The old man Wu couldn't even get jealous, only real envy remained.

When people reach their age, the biggest wish is not to hope that their children and grandchildren will have a future.

Who told people to have the ability to have grandchildren?

Look at the grandson of the old Gu's family, and then look at the children and grandchildren of my own family who use vibrato all day long and write bad characters.

"This grandson is so upbeat!"

Old man Wu rubbed his chin with the back of his hand, and said enviously.

"It's okay, brother, there's no need to praise him so much. Young people tend to be proud and complacent. I think my grandson still has a lot of room for improvement." Gu Tongxiang said shaking his head.

Old man Wu licked his lips, he didn't even bother to look at Gu Tongxiang, who was forcibly pretending to be a strict teacher, still looking disgusted at the side who was so proud that his tail was about to go up to the sky.

He leaned closer to Gu Weijing's side on his own, with an extremely kind smile on his face.

"Xiao Gu, uh, for the scriptures...Grandpa Wu has always been kind to you, so I will draw two paintings for you, Grandpa Wu. I will take them home and wait to make a fortune from them in the future."
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The old man Wu who wanted to paint did not fully fulfill his wish.
Gu Tongxiang believes that his grandson Gu Weijing is too young to sell and paint paintings for others.

Although the old man felt from the bottom of his heart,
In many respects, my grandson's painting skills are no longer inferior to my own, but it should be better to accumulate and brew for two years, and try to think about it on a bigger stage.

He declined Old Man Wu's request on the grounds that his grandson was busy with his studies during the graduation season.

but,

Under the soft and hard soak of old man Wu crying, making troubles and hanging himself three times, the sketch painting of bean curd in "Picture of Immortal Calyx and Changchun Bean Flower" that grandson Gu Weijing first imitated was taken away by old man Wu.

Gu Tongxiang originally suggested that he should paint a few pictures for old man Wu instead.

However, with Gu Weijing in front of him, especially at such a young age, in the eyes of Old Man Wu, Old Gu's level is no longer very attractive to him.

He's not stupid,

Which one has the most room for appreciation, old man Wu knows even if he thinks about it with his butt.

Gu Tongxiang should be like this in his life, but at Gu's age, it seems that his future is boundless.

Taking "Picture of Douhua", he walked around the yard several times without giving up.

The one on the long table is half made by Gu Tongxiang, and half is a peony picture painted by Gu Weijing.The old man also smacked his lips, and unceremoniously took the sheep away.

Old man Wu thought too much.

He also swiped a pen on the spot, and specially wrote at the end of the cut rice paper——

"The beauty of painting is long and interesting. Those who have mastered it first, grandchildren do not have to be inferior to ancestors. On the [-]rd day of the peach moon, beside the Yangon River, there is a warm spring. The son of the Gu family taught him..."

This big line of inscriptions goes like this.

This is used to record the background story of the creation of the peony in this painting. It is an interesting story about Gu Weijing teaching his grandfather Gu Tongxiang to paint.

Old man Wu recorded everything that happened today in detail, and secretly described a few words about how he decided to collect this work because of his insight.

He mentioned hundreds of words, which took up more space than the few peonies in the main body next to it.

In traditional Chinese painting, this line of characters is called "postscript", which is a document file specially used to record the background story of creation and the identity of creator and collector on calligraphy and painting artworks.

Many of the famous calligraphy works of Su Shi and Mi Fu that modern people can see are the imitations that they originally wrote at the end of traditional Chinese painting silk or paper, and were finally copied by later calligraphers alone.

The "Orchid Pavilion Preface" that middle school students memorized has similar meanings, and Qianlong, the stamped madman, mentioned thousands of pieces of this stuff in his life.

With these records.

Gu Weijing really became famous in the future.

The thing in his hand has been passed down in an orderly manner, and it will be more valuable when it is sold in the future.

Old man Wu even asked Old Gu to use his private seal with [Gu Tongxiang]'s name on it to stamp this line of words.

"Little Gu, work hard and work hard to paint! When you become a great painter in the future, Grandpa Wu will rely on him to change to a big villa by the seaside!"

Old man Wu told Gu Weijing half in jest, half in anticipation.

Then he didn't even want the portable lunch box he brought.

The old man and Gu Tongxiang made an appointment for the next chess game, so they carefully held the two paintings, strolled home contentedly, and prepared to frame them properly.

It was already noon when Gu Weijing sent old man Wu out.

He drank a few bowls of soup powder in the morning, and he was quite full now, so he skipped lunch and went straight back to his painting room.

He adjusted his mood a little, and after he calmed down completely, he took out the base map of "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun" that he finished drafting yesterday from the scroll.

Considering these two days,

The church renovation construction team has to seize the time to do some circuit factories and pipe erection, which may be noisy.

After bidding farewell to Katsuko Sakai last night, Gu Weijing put this base map in a bucket before going home and brought it back.

He plans to take advantage of the few days off during the Farmers' Day holiday to finish this work thoroughly first.

Gu Weijing stretched the canvas on the easel,

Before writing,
Facing the prototype of the painting on the base map in front of him, he went through the main points of the next pen in his mind from beginning to end.

Sharpening knives does not cut firewood by mistake,
The simulation in Gu Weijing's mind was extremely detailed.

He has actually memorized all the theoretical details of the new body painting repeatedly in his mind.

What he is going to do next is to be like a chef who cooks fresh food - according to this recipe, he stews sketches, oil paintings, and Chinese paintings together.

If it is successful, the characteristics of the fragrance can penetrate each other, bring out the flavor of each other, make people refreshed, and integrate the oriental style into the western style.

Failed, just like my last picture "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun", it turned into a dark dish that seemed disturbing and irritating.

And if you want to stew this pot of food well,

In addition to the recipe of the knowledge card, the skill of the chef is also tested.

The next part of painting is not like drawing a base map, but only expressing the meaning and spirit in the most concise way.

Every detail is meticulously executed.

He needs to give full play to the exquisite modeling curves and light and shade effects of sketches, so that the objects in the pictures have a relatively strong concave-convex three-dimensional sense.

In addition, using the jumping and enthusiastic colors of oil paintings, perfecting the highlights and shadows, enriching the visual focus, and using the principle of color perspective to make the picture real and have a sense of space.

Finally, the ancient and elegant fine brushwork technique is used to make the picture have a long artistic conception and full of spirit.

The ideas of the three techniques are constantly interspersed, mixed with each other, and refined to the last detail.

"First draw the distant view, then draw the close-up, and finally the details of the color layer on the surface of the characters."

After thinking for a long time, Gu Wei finally felt that he had made all the preparations.

Only then did he pick up the brush and start to color, outline, and draw, covering finer color details on the blueprint.

As soon as I started,

Gu Weijing clearly felt the pressure.

He uses a heavy pen, and with the turning of the pen tip, a lot of information corresponding to the painting is always pouring out in his mind.

If the amount of information in his mind when painting Chinese paintings in the past was [1], then the amount of information he needs to process now is [3].

Approximately three times the information density.

It is not only necessary to pay attention to the difference in contrast and saturation between oil painting and Chinese painting, but also to bridge the difference between Chinese painting and sketch lines, and draw lines with the practice ideas of drawing and sketching.

Even in the line drawing technique invented by Castiglione, the use of oil painting and sketching techniques is not exactly the same as traditional oil painting, and special fine-tuning is required according to the different pictures.

While Gu Weijing was painting, fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead little by little.

He had to devote all his attention to it, so that he could control the paintbrush in his hand to follow the trajectory in his mind, and draw steadily without making any major mistakes.

"Hold on, draw seriously, and take your time." He muttered.

Stress to stress.

Different from painting flowers and plants, line drawing, including tracing and capturing the expression of characters, is originally the most complicated part of the new body painting technique.

such a difficult way to draw,

It would be a strange thing if he could do it easily.

Castiglione's own painting skills may not be at the pinnacle, but it is compared with a handful of top masters in the world.

Even a relatively weak third-level professional Chinese painting technique is enough to easily kill him in seconds.

Therefore, the pressure of painting is completely within Gu Weijing's expectation.

"This is a good thing." Gu Weijing comforted himself.

No matter how great the pressure is, it is better than the weird feeling of fragmentation.

Being able to feel the pressure is an improvement in itself.

When Gu Weijing originally painted the first painting "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun", he was tortured by a sense of fragmentation from the beginning to the end and was extremely upset.

I can't calm down at all, even if I want to concentrate on painting, it's a little difficult, and I'm holding on with my breath.

Compared with that time, the current situation is more than a little bit stronger.

Gu Weijing is already very content.

When he first started to draw, he occasionally thought about the second step of [Serial Quest - All Rivers Included] on the system panel.

after that,
Gu Weijing has already forgotten all these things, and has nothing else to do, only the drawing board and canvas in front of him.

He feels himself painting now.

It's like driving a big mud truck downhill with a heavy steering wheel towards the goal downhill.

And Gu Weijing is the driver who exhausted all his strength and tried his best to fight with the steering wheel.

He had to be careful and careful to control the car on the track it should be.

While painting, Gu Weijing also discovered something different.

When he deals with the parts related to the two techniques of Chinese painting and sketching, the pen tip will be heavy and lag a lot.In many cases, Gu Weijing had to think for several seconds before he had the confidence to write.

But if it is changed to deal with the part that is more related to oil painting, the pressure he feels will be much less, and the thought of using the pen and the muscles of the wrist feel more agile and free.

He soon understood that this was probably because the oil painting technique had just broken through the second level of the profession, and the ability to control the brush was much higher than the previous two.

(End of this chapter)