Almighty painter

Chapter 249 The Shortcut to Venice
Gu Weijing asked Awang to continue to lie down obediently in front of him.

He looks away,
Thinking back to the scene in front of me just now, I used the tip of the pen to vividly transform the scene where the raccoon cat was about to relax into a pencil sketch, and recorded it in the material book.

That miraculous scene just now was not magic.

"Pet Mind Reading" mentioned that there are very big differences in the habits of cats and dogs. Dogs are more domesticated, while cats are more wary of strangers.

But both pets naturally love to be touched tenderly.

This will remind them of the feeling of being licked by their mother's tongue when they were young, and dopamine will be automatically released in their minds.Sometimes, people will observe pets rubbing on their laps, which is to want you to get close to its external performance.

The knowledge card also teaches a massage technique for stroking pets and enhancing emotions.

Human massage has a history of thousands of years, and the concept of massaging animals is not new, but it is more of a practical massage to stimulate muscle growth.

A long time ago, during the breeding process of Kobe Wagyu cattle, the steps of listening to music to the cattle and massaging the cattle with a special brush have even been developed into an assembly line operation.There will also be physiotherapists to give physiotherapy to the racehorses after the race.Some academic papers have shown that compared with the control group, the short-term sprint speed and endurance of massaged horses can be increased by nearly 10%.

But massaging less expensive animals such as cats and dogs is still quite rare.

In "Pet Mind Reading", animal massage is divided into six methods: pressing, stretching, rubbing, kneading, squeezing, and pointing, each of which affects the special position of their muscles and joints.

Some expensive pet centers and veterinary hospitals may have such programs.

But it is definitely not as good as Gu Weijing, because now he has reached the level of "dissolving the ox" in the pet's skeletal muscles.

Paoding Jie Niu is Jing Jie Cat.

You can only use a knife to untie a cow, but you can use your fingers or a pencil to untie a cat.

【Work Title: "Untitled Sketch"】

[Sketch technique: lv.5 professional level two (357/10000)]

[Chinese Painting Techniques: Lv.4 Professional Level 2252 (5000/[-])]

【Emotions: I feel something in my heart (satisfaction)】

"It's easy to empathize with pets. Not only can you draw exquisite muscle textures, but also their small emotions. Let them turn into elves on the pen. If a cartoon movie asks me to draw a poster, maybe the effect will be very good Not bad."

He found that his emotions in animal paintings can also empathize with models.

And having a tacit understanding with pets is the highest state of drawing animals.

In history, there are horses, cranes, cats and dogs.

Every painter declares that the animal or passion, or rebellious, or lonely emotion is revealed in his pen.

Most of them are all nonsense, far-fetched interpretations of the painter's subjective emotions.

And Gu Weijing really turned this state into reality.

The only small shortcoming is that if he uses [Menzel's basic experience in painting], the painting emotion will be fixed as [plain works].

From the emotional point of view, it started to hold me back.

Gu Weijing casually named this material "Lihuamao·Relaxation".

He flipped through the material book in front of him.

He still maintains a good habit of drawing and sketching, using it to exercise his line ability and accumulate creative materials by the way.

Illustrators will build their own material library for easy access in the future, just like students sort out their wrong notebooks when they go to school.

In the past two days, I came to play with Awang when I had nothing to do.

In addition to the one just now, I also created a lot of accumulative materials left by collecting folk songs, such as "Civet Cat · Breathing", "Civet Cat · Sleeping", "Civet Cat · Waggling its Tail".

"Next time, I can ask Mr. Sloth to find out for myself, if there is a suitable pet-themed illustration request. Hmm... this shouldn't be such a complicated request."

Because cute.

In the field of serious art, painting animals can only be regarded as a branch.

In the field of illustration, drawing animals is the most common learning.

The number of masterpieces is almost innumerable.

For example, Andy Warhol's Cat Mi series, such as "Nils' Travels on a Goose", and "The Wind in the Willows" and Disney's "Mickey Mouse" series.

Among the masterpieces of illustrations in the world, animal themes can account for a small part.

As long as you have the ability, you can get enough orders in the high-end field.

"Grandpa Wu, your family, Awang, was taken out by me to play."

Gu Weijing checked the time, hugged the raccoon cat in his arms, and was about to go out.Today is the weekend, and he and Sheng Zi made an appointment to go to the Lucky Orphanage to paint.

He was going to take Awang there to play with little friend Jasmine.

There are stray cats outside the orphanage, and the headmistress sometimes feeds them.But those ticks that live on cats may also carry rabies virus.

Uncle Alai never allowed Jasmine to get close.

So the little girl could only watch helplessly.

Little Jasmine will be very happy today.

"As long as you have this ability, be careful that it catches you. Our cat recognizes his birth, and no one except our Wu family recognizes it."

Old man Wu settled accounts on the glass cabinet with Wenwan bracelets at the door, and said casually.

The old man had always been proud of his cat's ability to guard the house, and claimed to have raised a little tiger.

Ngawang has never lost a fight with a neighbor's pet, and even drove a bigger Shiba Inu into the river.

Only he, the master, can control the other party.

Old man Wu claimed that their cat was "extremely strong". Even Gu Tongxiang was scratched by Awang shamelessly, and he hurt his old friend for a long time.

"Are you right, Awang?"

After pressing a series of numbers on the calculator, the old man Wu raised his head proudly, just in time to see Awang being obediently embraced by Gu Weijing, and yelling at the boy with winking eyes.

That look is as flattering as you want, and the amber pupils are almost drawn.

Awang ignored Old Man Wu's call at all, and just stuck out his tongue, wanting to please Gu Weijing's chin.

"Awang, be good."

Gu Weijing patted Cihuamao's head, took out a fish and ham sausage from the schoolbag, peeled off the plastic cover, and stuffed it into its mouth.

Ham sausage has a high salt content, which is considered junk food for pets and should not be eaten too much.

This is Gu Weijing's reward for being his model for such a long time.

"Hmph, an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf."

Old man Wu's face darkened, and he murmured angrily, "Boy of the Gu family, don't feed this kind of thing to Awang, his mouth is so tricky, what should we do if we don't catch mice!"

"Goodbye, Grandpa Wu. Go and play chess with my grandpa when you have time."

Gu Weijing smiled at old man Wu, and walked out of the old man's Wenwan shop with the raccoon cat in his arms.

He knew that old man Wu was in a bad mood today.

Every month... er, no... old man Wu always has a few days like this every year.

People are not taking it personally or really mad at their cat.

But Mr. Wu's official addiction broke out again.

Recently, the leadership of the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association will change and the opportunity he mentioned to Mr. Gu to recommend new members to the Myanmar National Painting and Calligraphy Association.

The administrative treatment and social status of the official members of the national painting association have a qualitative leap compared with the local painting association.

The kind that can be reimbursed for business class on a business trip.

Perhaps the Yangon Artists Association still has the nature of a grass-roots team. In European countries, it is just a child's play house, which is relatively poor.It is also useful when applying to college.

Gu Tongxiang's identity as a member of the Yangon Painting Association was not mentioned at all, and there was no need to mention it.

In the eyes of InterContinental Gallery, having and not having are exactly the same.

If it was replaced by the National Painting Association... it might not be useful.

After all, this isn't Dongxia's Art Association or the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.With the size of Gagosian and Ma Shi, you can still ignore it.

It's just that the degree of recognition is somewhat higher.

After all, the selection of generals from among the dwarfs is only a few dozen selected out of 6000 to [-] million people, and there will be some merits.Sometimes it can even directly attract the attention of some second- and third-tier medium-sized galleries in Asia.

There is a joke among the folks that the quota of the National Painting Association is "increased by half".That is to say, for ordinary Burmese painters, no matter who becomes a member of the National Painting Association, the market price can increase by at least 50%.

Especially for artists, the most attractive thing is not the money, but the Biennale quota.

The China National Painting Association holds the recommendation places for invited painters of some international biennales.

The Singapore Biennale, the Shanghai Biennale, and even the most important and prestigious cultural exhibition in the world...the legendary Venice Biennale.

That's right.

The National Painting Association can directly send a local painter to participate in the Venice Biennale.

This involves a small bug in the art world.

The exhibitors of the Venice Biennale are composed of two parts, namely the National Exhibition and Theme Exhibition representing the national team and the Grand Gallery.

Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Dali, Yayoi Kusama... all these artists who have a combined worth of more than tens of billions of dollars have been rejected by the Venice Biennale.

However, with the turmoil in Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Syria, the combined worth of famous artists may not be able to reach the place where they are a fraction of a pinky finger.

Since it is a sovereign country, the cultural department can directly recommend painters from their highest-level artist associations to participate in the Biennale through special channels.

The organizing committee of the Venice Biennale will give certain places to different countries.

The number of quotas falling in the hands of each country is different, and the difficulty of competition is also different.

It's a bit like a football team's World Cup qualifiers, the difference between Europe and Asia.

Dongxia, Japan, South Korea, France, Italy and other developed art countries may have larger national pavilions, but they also gather big names.

For an artist with less than a million dollars in sales, getting tickets is simply a dream.

Every year, this is the Art Olympics among countries. In order to highlight the country's artistic heritage, the cost of organizing the Venice Biennale is astronomical.

Hearst spent nearly [-] million US dollars, but didn't make a splash.

But in places like Myanmar, chickens peck at each other.

African painters also have elements of racial political correctness, and they tend to win awards to a certain extent.Small countries in Southeast Asia such as Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia are almost all pure soy sauce.

Everyone actually doesn't care anymore,

To make soy sauce again is to go to the Venice Biennale to make soy sauce.

Who said that being able to run with the Nobel Prize is not an honor?
Even for the quota of the Biennale, there are rumors in the art world that there will be some tricks every year.

European and American art majors will exchange for more participation quotas from small countries that have no intention of participating in the competition, by exempting national debts, foreign exchange investment and other means.

This kind of unreliable rumor, which sounds extremely nonsense, is really an unspoken secret in the industry.

The Venice Biennale has this unreasonable magic.

Even with this hidden shortcut to heaven.

It is also impossible for old man Wu and Gu Tongxiang to have such a completely unrealistic dream that the only pie can be dropped on their own heads.

Their highest expectation in life is to put their names on the list of the National Painting Association before stepping into the grave.

You can comfort your ancestors.

However, the National Painting Association cannot be influenced by old man Wu's ability.

If you want to join it, you have to be able to show some excellent strength.

If you can’t sell a painting worth 2000 million U.S. dollars, you must be able to sell a single work worth 2000 million kyats, or achieve similar difficulty, so that you can pass the review threshold.

It has been four years since the last Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association entered the National Painting Association and became a national treasure artist of Myanmar.

Old man Wu would add his name to the application list every year, and then he would be brushed off as a routine.

Entrust relationships, find people, give gifts, and go through the back door.

The old man tried everything he could think of.

Looking at the next term, he may not be able to continue to serve as the permanent director of the local painting association.

Looking forward again and again, we ushered in disappointment again and again.

The big apple on the tree was clearly hanging in front of his eyes, and the old man's legs were almost limping, the difference was always a few centimeters.

Old man Wu was very annoyed and sad because of this.

Gu Weijing ignored the restless old man Wu. He was carrying a schoolbag, holding a material clip in one hand, and holding Awang who was sticking to his arms in the other. He was going to go to the orphanage by car to find a girl to play with.

When I walked to my door, I ran into a courier delivering express from door to door.

The little brother wearing a red and yellow corporate culture shirt of "DHL Express, One Step Faster" pedaled a tricycle along the tree-lined road on the banks of the Yangon River, and the chain made a creaking sound like a mouse gnawing.

"Gu's Book Gallery, No. 36 North Yangon River Road, Insein District, Yangon City, who is Mr. Gu Weijing, go out to pick up the courier."

The courier boy glanced at the house number, threw the package in the back bucket of the tricycle on the steps in front of the calligraphy and painting shop with a bang, and then continued to squeak, squeak, squeak to the next house.

Gu Weijing was used to the local express service attitude, unable to complain, and tore Awang out of his arms first.

Then he bent down to pick up the package in front of him, shaking off the dust.

He unwrapped the black package, revealing the cover of a fairy tale book inside.

"Is this the new version of "The Little Prince" by Mr. Sloth?"

Mr. Sloth has already communicated with him. He got a sample book of "The Little Prince" from the publishing house, and he will send it to himself through Schönbrunn Palace Office in the next few days.

This should be it.

Gu Weijing looked at this fairy tale book with a better printing effect than he expected with satisfaction.

After several twists and turns in the painting process, when the final product is placed in front of my eyes, I still have a sense of accomplishment and harvest.

This was a milestone moment in Gu Weijing's life - he officially completed a high-end draft cooperation.

From then on, at least in the group of illustrators, he is no longer just an online illustrator, but has a lot of big projects as his work experience.

This is like the career transition from an Internet celebrity who shoots short videos to a serious TV star.

A qualitative upgrade in social status.

Detective Cat who has painted "Mr. Hyperion" is only an online celebrity painter, while Detective Cat who has successfully completed the "Little Prince Project" of Scholastic Group is considered by the employer to be an illustrator artist with more than 90% gold content.

This hidden gold-plated upgrade may be more helpful than the monetary benefits of the Little Prince project itself.

After finishing from 0 to 1, it will be much easier for him to go from 1 to 2 in the future.

"Thanks to Mr. Sloth, I was able to find such a powerful project for myself in the first mission."

While thinking, Gu Weijing opened the little prince.

He saw Mr. Sloth's words on the title page, the words were beautiful.

This was the first time Gu Weijing saw the handwriting of the mysterious Mr. Sloth, and Gu Weijing's eyes lit up.

There are actually very few people in foreign countries who can write beautiful calligraphy.

In Yale and Oxford, leaving the computer keyboard, the words written on the paper are messed up like dogs crawling everywhere.

Not surprising.

Painting art is something that all human civilizations will invent. There were mural paintings in the Neolithic Age.

The brush calligraphy system based on pictophonetic Chinese characters is an artistic creation and aesthetic trend uniquely invented by the people of Eastern Xia based on the keynote of writing to convey Tao and calligraphy to convey bones.

This is the only one in the world, there is no other semicolon.

Even the ancient Egyptians, who had a large number of pictographic elements in the same script, did not have such a thing as calligraphy.

If you have to figure it out hard, the Latin language family also has classifications based on business copperplate script, imperial capital script, Gothic secular script/shorthand script, etc., which are what people often call curlicue and round script, but they have been classified into the Eastern Xia cultural circle. The level of calligraphy raised to the level of expressiveness and freehand brushwork is too primitive.

In terms of the theoretical system of calligraphy and the depth of aesthetic attainments, the gap between English calligraphy and the Chinese calligraphy system that has been improved under the imperial examination system is similar to the gap between the airplane invented by the Wright Brothers and the F22 stealth fighter.

But such a beautiful word is still very recognizable.In foreign countries, only a few upper classes have money and time, so they can train their children to practice calligraphy.

This is completely in line with Gu Weijing's imaginary profile of Mr. Sloth as "a personable, gentle, middle-aged uncle in the upper class".

"Noble work of art...noble soul..."

Gu Weijing read the text above.

He is no stranger to this famous art motto. In order to save a few euros on materials, his family did not order a physical version of the paper magazine.However, every issue of the electronic publication of "Oil Painting" magazine will have the same tribute to Ms. K as a suffix.

Of course, Mr. Sloth is also a reader of "Paintings".

Gu Weijing put away the very commemorative "Little Prince" sample booklet in his schoolbag, and he found that there was another package dropped by the courier brother just now.

This package is very thin and not too heavy, and it is wrapped with a layer of sponge on the outside.

What is it?

Gu Weijing doesn't remember that he has ever shopped online recently.

Curiously, he took apart the outer layer of the sponge and found a mahogany photo frame inside.

Under the glass of the photo frame is a bright and elegant post-it note.It seems that after someone finished writing it, it was packaged in a photo frame by the secretary and sent over.

There is only a short line on the note.

[Little friend Gu Weijing:

I heard that you have joined the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association, congratulations.To be able to paint with Mr. Cao Xuan, since ancient times, a hero is born as a boy.If you have made greater achievements in painting in the future and want to join the National Painting Association, you may consider giving me a call.Another: prepare well for the Singapore Biennale, an undeniable price, I always mean what I say.

--List】

Gu Weijing stared at the text in the photo frame for a few seconds before connecting this Mr. Chen with that elegant middle-aged businessman whom he once met in the Lucky Orphanage.

Mr. Chen is the chairman of the Charity Chamber of Commerce and the most well-known local collector. It is not surprising that he is well-informed about his affairs.

What is strange is that people are willing to continue to pay attention to themselves.

When he was in the orphanage, Mr. Chen promised that if he was really shortlisted for the Lion City Art Exhibition, he would be willing to pay a good price for his paintings.

Gu Weijing didn't take it too seriously.

A big collector who can open a car factory in a joint venture with Toyota, most likely just casually say what kind of paintings he wants to buy.

There is no need to take it too seriously and worry about gains and losses.

After such a long time, Mr. Chen could still remember his name and Gu Weijing was surprised. Unexpectedly, he sent a handwritten note.

It seems he is not serious,

People are serious.

"How irresistible is an irresistible price?"

Gu Weijing has always asked himself to pursue and work hard on techniques, and not to equate the value of artworks with money too much.

Seeing this note still made his heart flutter a little.

With his current painting skills, it is hard to say that he won the award, but it is not difficult to meet the requirements for participating in the exhibition.

Different levels, different perspectives.

For ordinary residents in the city, paying [-] kyats for a painting is very expensive.

And an offer that can be called irresistible by collectors worth hundreds of millions of dollars may cost upwards of $[-] no matter what.

this era.

The chairman of the Myanmar Painting Association, the most expensive piece of work sold in his life may not have this amount.

This is not only sales, but also Mr. Chen's affirmation and investment in his painting techniques.

The professional career of a modern great painter must be accompanied by the recognition and pursuit of his artistic level by rich and wealthy buyers, not during his lifetime, but also after his death.

Matsukata Kojiro, the eldest son of the Prime Minister of Japan during the Meiji period, played this role for Monet, Kerkorian, the owner of MGM Casino in Las Vegas, for Picasso, and the prince of the United Arab Emirates for Damian Hearst.

Without the massive funds of these collectors who don't regard money as money, it would be impossible to achieve the forceful style of great painters standing on the clouds.

"Mr. Chen, will he become the first big buyer in my life?"

This thought came to Gu Weijing's mind.

(End of this chapter)