Almighty painter

Chapter 213 Model
Gu Weijing subconsciously turned around and looked at Miss Katsuko beside her. Sakai Katsuko also looked peacefully at the boy she was holding with big lilac-colored bright eyes.

The two eyes meet,
In this situation, without the teacher's teaching, Gu Weijing subconsciously lowered his head slowly, chasing the girl beside him who instinctively wanted to kiss.

Sakai Katsuko felt Gu Weijing's movements.

Her pupils contracted, her breathing began to become rapid, and her chest rose and fell rapidly.

"It's...not yet."

Sakai Katsuko lowered his head suddenly, and pressed his forehead against Gu Weijing's chest, avoiding his demanding kiss.

Gu Weijing's lips could only smell the vegetable smell of the hair conditioner on Miss Sakai's dark hair.

"Oh, sorry."

Seeing Katsuko Sakai flinch, Gu Weijing blushed a little and apologized in embarrassment.

"No need to apologize, I don't want to refuse your request, it's just... I hope our first kiss can be more ceremonial and commemorative."

Katsuko Sakai had red earlobes.

She hesitated for a long time just now, with the fierce battle between heaven and man in her mind, she finally decided to listen to her mother.

"Wait a little longer, okay?"

Sakai Katsuko rubbed her small head on Gu Weijing's chest, and asked softly.

Gu Weijing smiled.

He stopped painting, and the two of them just hugged each other for a while, until Sakai Katsuko suddenly said, "By the way, I also filled out the application form for the audition submission for the Singapore Art Biennale in early autumn this year."

Gu Weijing was taken aback for a moment, but turned curious.

"Then Katsuko, what theme do you want to paint?"

"In fact, I haven't made up my mind on the specific content. The theme of this year's art exhibition is [Human Hustle], and the requirements are very broad." Sakai Katsuko let go of his arm, blinked and said, "It is also possible to draw people, and to draw architecture It’s also possible, but I’ve thought about the type of painting method, and your painting method has inspired me...but it’s not the fusion of traditional Chinese painting and oil painting like you.”

The entire East Asian art has something in common.

Vietnam and Myanmar have traditional silk paintings evolved from traditional Chinese paintings, and Dongying has a painting method based on Tang paintings, Yamato-e, also known as Nawa-e.

The painting method is closer to the traditional calligraphy and painting of Eastern Xia than the Ukiyo-e that people often hear.

Katsuko Sakai has learned the corresponding painting techniques.

Her Chinese ability is limited, but she has learned soft-brush calligraphy.

Brush calligraphy is very prosperous in Dongying, and Chinese character culture is also very important among literati and refined scholars.

Until the [-]th century, there have been such masters of calligraphy as Inoue Kazuki and Gu Gu Cangyun who are very famous in the calligraphic circles of Asia.

Katsuko Sakai learned calligraphy in the same way as copying painting, paying attention to body, beauty, and shape. When copying calligraphy, he paid attention to the artistic value of copying calligraphy. As for the meaning of specific words, it is not so important.

If not,

She will not be brought by her father to participate in international projects in Myanmar.

However, although Sakai Katsuko loves the pen and ink in Gu Weijing's works, after careful consideration, she gave up and followed a similar path.

It is inconvenient for Ms. Sakai to choose the exact same painting method as Gu Weijing.

For one thing, her brush painting skills are still much worse than oil paintings, after all.

From a long-term point of view, if it is the case of self-created works, Sakai Katsuko still hopes to focus on oil painting with all her painting energy.

Forcibly choosing this long and long road may not be suitable for you.

Second, from the perspective of participating in art exhibitions.

She didn't want to steal Gu Weijing's limelight.

If two people's paintings are too similar, especially for unpopular ones with similar painting levels, the organizing committee will make a choice whether they are selected or exhibited.

An easier-to-understand description is that the four sisters in the university dormitory applied for the same highly competitive establishment position in the same unit at the same time.

Immediately, the good girlfriends changed careers and staged Infernal Affairs, it was hard not to intrigue.

"What is it?" Gu Weijing asked.

"Actually, the story I just told about Manet and Monet is not just a metaphor. In addition to this year's exhibition, I also hope that for a long time in the future, I will concentrate on Manet's painting style and absorb some of Carroll's paintings." The predecessors' impressionist treatment of dark tones. This is a natural fusion painting!"

Sakai Katsuko said with a smile.

Gu Weijing nodded.

Of course, Impressionism was originally the product of the fusion of Eastern and Western Asian art and European art.The reason why their paper was submitted to a journal called Asian Art was not just that Carroll's painting "Old Church" was created in Yangon.

Every painter of the Impressionists was more or less influenced by oriental art.

But unlike Castiglione, who needed to curry favor with the scholar-bureaucrats to gain the approval of the Qing court, Impressionist techniques are purely oil painting.

"Manet's way of painting..." he thought.

"Manet's painting style tends to be modernist. He is mainly influenced by two art trends, Japanese ukiyo-e and Spanish traditional panels. He boldly uses bright colors and abandons the midtones of traditional paintings. I think this should suit me well. "

As for the idea of ​​painting method, Katsuko Sakai had already thought about it in advance after she decided to try to participate in the exhibition, and she said it in an orderly manner.

Manet was French, but the two painting styles that influenced him the most in his life, one came from Japan and the other came from Spain.

The brush and ink contains not only the enthusiasm and splendor of the Iberian Peninsula, but also the two-dimensional characteristics of Ukiyo-e.

These are the two hometowns of Miss Sakai.

"Manet likes to paint very bright and bright works, and I can see the idea of ​​using dark tones to express intense colors in the painting style of Carroll's predecessors. In a sense, these two styles can be reconciled I want to use this as a basis to find out the painting path that suits me.”

Sakai Katsuko looked serious and said fascinatedly.

"The thinking is very clear." Gu Weijing nodded in affirmation.

He didn't think he could think of any better advice.

"I already have the path of painting, but the skill and proficiency in using the pen can only be improved slowly, and there is no rush." ​​Katsuko Sakai brought a palm-sized teak wood bag from the small schoolbag on the side of the sofa. The photo frame, I took a tissue and wiped my fingers again before taking out the well-preserved sketch illustrations from it.

"I'm not very good at learning how to integrate my emotions into paintings. A few days ago, I felt a little bit of feeling, but when I practiced in the hotel, I was still a little unsure."

She handed the sketch to Gu Weijing, and asked in a tone of anticipation: "Teach me, okay?"

Gu Weijing took the sketch paper.

He recognized it as the small portrait he gave Sakai Katsuko in the study room of Dulwich College.

"My father told me that a painter should be close to nature and feel life. I would also like to hear your opinion, Gu Jun. You are the only person of my age who can handle emotions so well."

"Even if it's just a simple pencil sketch, I often look at this piece of paper, and I can feel the feeling of looking at myself in the painting, like looking in a mirror."

Miss Sakai stood beside Gu Weijing, earnestly asking for advice.

"When you draw, what do you think in your mind? I think the lines I draw are not as vivid and sentimental as yours."

Thinking about?
Looking at the sketch paper in front of me,

Gu Weijing recalled the feeling in his heart when he created the first piece of work that received the evaluation of "feeling from the heart" on the system panel.

"I was thinking about painting, but I didn't think about painting. I was thinking about models, but I didn't think about models."

"It sounds like he's playing Zen Feng."

Sakai Katsuko revealed a puzzled look in his eyes.

"Actually... I don't understand it very well, can you explain it more intuitively." She said openly that she didn't quite understand the meaning of Gu Weijing's words.

"Remember when I wrote the thesis, I mentioned the point of view on empathy." Gu Weijing said, "You need to have enough resonance with the scenery you write, and your heart and the environment are integrated. When your heart is full of When expressing desire, painting is just a natural thing. There is nothing in your heart, and you are fully focused. You don’t have to specifically pursue what the emotion in the brush is, you can easily feel the emotion flowing slowly at the tip of the brush.”

"This kind of resonance should be the purpose of feeling life and nature as Uncle Sakai said."

"Empty, yet engrossed."

Ms. Sakai muttered to herself, thinking about the feeling of this kind of painting.

Gu Weijing lightly touched the hair on the back of Sakai Katsuko's head, and said: "The fastest way to feel all this is not fantasy, but to find a model that can make you have enough interest in painting. Don't treat the model like a plaster Empty things, he is not a mass of lines, but a living person. Get to know him, care about him. Draw him more, practice more daily, and you will be able to find the feeling.”

Sakai Katsuko thought for a few seconds, hooked the corner of his mouth, and looked at Gu Weijing: "Gu Jun, what do you mean, I should draw more pictures of you?"

"I think--"

Gu Weijing did not refuse, but also smiled back: "Most of the models in the paintings of great painters are their lovers, there is a reason for this."

"Well, then you are not only my Monet, but also my Miss Moran occasionally!" Sakai Katsuko said casually.

"Then ask Ms. Sakai to take care of her." Gu Weijing joked.

Miss Merlin is the most common female model in Manet's works, and also Manet's long-term queen... er, prostitute.

In the literary and art circles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus was on this bohemian tone.

Venereal diseases and tuberculosis are among the artists' signature traits.

Celebrities who contracted or died of syphilis, including Van Gogh, Maupassant, Nietzsche, Wilde, Schubert... You can make up half a company's name just by thinking about it.

Manet's favorite female model, Merlin, is not even a lover or courtesan, but a serious professional prostitute.

Sakai Katsuko was stunned for two seconds.

When she realized the meaning of the other party's teasing in her heart, her cheeks immediately turned flushed, and she lightly patted Gu Weijing's arm in embarrassment.

"Not serious, you know that's not what I mean." Miss Shengzi's voice was as thin as a mosquito.

Gu Weijing saw that Ms. Sakai Katsuko's face was tender, and when she joked, her cheeks turned red like a ripe apple, and she liked it very much.

He grabbed her arm and held her in his arms.

Sakai Katsuko struggled symbolically twice, then half-pushed and stretched out his arms to wrap around the opponent's neck.

The two of them kissed each other for a while.

Gu Weijing didn't do anything excessive, just hugged, and at most just whispered cheek to cheek.

But it is also a simple physical contact. The physical stimulation brought by the concubine's love at this time and the naturalness of the painting just now is not at the same level.

In a little while,

The two young people who are equally immature and who are in love for the first time are a little hot all over.

Gu Weijing's neckline and forehead were slightly sweaty, while Miss Shengzi's body was already nervous or shy, as if she was soaked in sweat, as if she had been fished out of the water.

A few strands of wet hair were tightly attached to her temples, the girl was breathing fast like a fish out of a pool, and even her eyes were a little blurred.

Seeing Miss Sakai's pitiful and pleading look.

After all, Gu Weijing decided to be a gentleman with great willpower, so he didn't take the opportunity to kiss.

"I don't think...not...not very well."

Sakai Katsuko sat on the fabric sofa at one side for several minutes, and the violent chest ups and downs slowly subsided.

She took half a cup of coffee for herself from the coffee machine, and added a small half cup of ice water to the coffee cup from the refrigerated water dispenser.

The girl was not in a hurry to drink, so she held the iced coffee in front of her chest, sipped it in small sips, and used the coolness from her chest to calm her hot body under the pheromone.

that's it,
Her voice was still breathless.

"Did we get too close just now?"

"No...I don't mean this." Sakai Katsuko said slowly, "I mean Merlan, which is about letting you be my model."

"I don't think it's good." Sakai Katsuko shook his head.

The two of them just made out for a few minutes before Miss Sakai suddenly changed her mind.Gu Weijing didn't speak, but looked at the girl on the sofa with puzzled eyes.

"I may have to practice a lot every day. If I draw you, I will be too familiar with the brush." ​​Sakai Katsuko looked at Gu Weijing.

"Isn't it familiar?"

"not good."

Sakai Katsuko shook his head.

"It's probably not a bad thing for art-making, but I don't like it."

"Familiarity will make people lose the original passion, and it will make me take it as normal. And, frankly, I have to consider the possibility that if I can't draw the work I want for a long time, it will take a long time. Painting on the same theme may also make me feel tired and frustrated.”

Miss Sakai pinched a strand of wet hair with her fingertips, "I don't like to associate your face in my heart with psychological feelings such as exhaustion and frustration at any time."

Psychologically,

There is an association effect in the human brain.

When a person listens to a piece of music he likes, but does something that makes him feel very painful, such as eating dark food.

Over time,
When you hear a similar melody again, you will recall the taste of dark cuisine.

"Gu Jun, I don't want you to be my practice model, just like a kiss, a kiss that is too easy will lose its charm. I hope that in the future, when I feel that I can feel our emotions as warm and beautiful as today, my heart beats When it's like a drum, pick up the brush again."

"I hope that every time I want to draw your face, it will excite me and make me shy." Sakai Katsuko looked at Gu Weijing's profile.

Ms. Sakai is very shy now, but her tone is very serious: "I hope that when your hair is gray, I who draw pictures for you will still blush."

"Hmm...then you can change your model? How about Jasmine?"

"Jasmine?"

"She's been a lovely little model, and I assure you, she's always been good."

(End of this chapter)