Almighty painter

Chapter 301 Partner

its not right.

Professor Boggs is confident that his technique is not inferior to that of any painter who has ever played with an oil painting knife, whether able to breathe or not.

What went wrong?
His eyes were fixed on the painting before him.

He received more information than Ms. Anya.

Boggs can clearly restore the color changes of each paint trace on the display screen in his mind.

He could even imagine the gentle feel of the oil painting knife as it pushed the paint onto the canvas and penetrated into the deep plant fibers.

Any touch, any push, are all effortless and just right.

This feeling did not scare Professor Boggs, but only excited him.

No matter how beautiful Detective Cat's works are and how high-level his skills are.

Boggs can do it too.

Apart from anything else, his own set of drawings looked flawless when viewed with a magnifying glass.

Color, composition?
The paintings of Detective Cat have warmer tones and tend to express more movement in the picture.

The milky white cat looks a little orange when squinted under the light.

The color processing at the core of the picture is more warm.

The color purity is lower at the edges, and everything facing the sun produces noticeable highlights.

These treatments make the paintings appear more realistic.

For his "Amy", he chose a more clear-cut black and white painting method. The two tones of cold and warm collided with each other on the canvas and merged with each other.

On this point, Detective Cat and himself indeed have completely opposite handling habits.

However, Professor Boggs didn't feel that what he did was any worse than Detective Cat.

A slightly more realistic one.

A slightly freehand one.

They are just two different painting ideas, and there is no distinction between them being good or bad.

My twelve paintings are a set of philosophical wholes that contrast with each other, in terms of artistic conception.

Professor Boggs felt that he was even better!

"What magic elixir did... Detective Cat add to his work?"

Boggs was puzzled.

This kind of lines, techniques, and colors are no worse than the other's work, but the painting lacks some meaning, which is simply terrible.

His head shook like a wavy drum.

The cat above him felt unsteady on his feet, so he pulled out his claws from the professor's skinny fingers and jumped off the old man's white-haired head.

The room was dark with the lights off.

Professor Boggs's entire attention was attracted by the TV screen in front of him.

So he didn't notice.

In the darkness, the little kitten that jumped from above his head did not shrink into the corner like when Tony left him behind.

It rolled on the ground, tentatively took a few steps forward, found an empty space between the feet of a pair of leather shoes in the shadow under the TV, and sat on its tail.

The kitten raised its round little head, narrowed its eyes and looked at the picture on the screen curiously.

It was both confused and serious, staring at the TV with a bit of hesitation. From time to time, it stuck out its tongue and licked the tip of its pink nose, like a fascinated audience standing in front of a portrait of a beauty in an art gallery.

Jane Arnold felt the warm and soft touch coming from her socks through her ankles.

The master illustrator bowed his head.

He stared at the extra cat at his feet for a few seconds without saying a word.

He moved a small step to the side, leaving a front row seat for Mao Mao to see the painting.

Then Jane Arnold pursed her lips, raised her head again, looked around, and searched for her target in the room.

At this time, Dr. Jin Anqing was also looking at Jane Arnold.

The two people's eyes met in the air, and after a moment, they could read the rapidly beating heartbeats in their chests.

"Amy."——The moment the painting on the screen lights up.

The doctor and the master illustrator both heard the soft call from Tony's mouth.

A work that is attractive enough to make people fall in love with it only requires one glance.

Whether you like it or not, your heartbeat and pulse will tell you the answer.

The painting "Pet Love" that Ms. Anya has been working on in the room for many days, no matter how much the assistant flatters her, Tony is like a wooden person and has no reaction.

Boggs's paintings can arouse Tony's curiosity.

This is the difference in the audience’s perceptual perception of paintings.

And almost the same painting.

When Tony saw Boggs's work, he called "Cat". In front of the painting of Detective Cat Lady, he didn't need Dr. Jin Anqing's verbal guidance at all, and he called "Amy".

Although it cannot be ruled out that it is because of the familiarity of the first time and the second time.

Master Jane Arnold still feels that this is another improvement in judging superiority.

As a master of fairy tales, he may have a deeper understanding of the remarkable aspects of this work than Professor Boggs.

Professor Boggs became famous for his ability to use delicate knife patterns to depict the unique texture of pine needles in the forest on a snowy night on the road with yet to melt snow.

To this day, this tenured professor at the Brooklyn Academy of Art is still best at landscape painting.

Jane Arnold was already familiar with the various animal images that appeared when painting fairy tales.

This is what illustrators make a living from.

Cats, hounds, rats, swans, toads, brown bears... there are countless cartoon animals in Jane Arnold's paintings.

Jane Arnold discovered the essence of the anonymous illustrator's work almost instantly.

That cat is awesome.

That one...Amy.

Even myself.

The characters depicted in the work "Miracle of Oz" are all anthropomorphic cartoon cats, and the cute image of Mao Mi in this work is so natural that it looks like a lifelike real cat.

There are some inner qualities that are difficult to express in virtual cartoon characters.

The kind of curious and intimate expression when meeting the little master, the little movement of gently sniffing Tony's scalp with his nose.

Jane Arnold really felt as if she had traveled through decades of time.

That year, he had just finalized a five-year contract with Scholastic Group in New York. However, he received a call from his wife, telling him that his four-year-old son had been diagnosed with autism. So he hurriedly refused to sign the contract and flew out for a reception. Went home.

He is preoccupied with worries about his statuesque son who is indifferent to his environment.

The moment the car parked in front of his house, he found Tony sitting on the newly mown lawn, with a ball beside him and a kitten playing on his head.

So, he casually took pictures of this scene with the camera he carried in his briefcase for collecting photos.This painting is like a spell that can turn back time and recreate yesterday.

The illustrator opened his eyes wide, and everything he recalled seemed vivid in front of Detective Cat's brushstrokes.

His nose could even vaguely feel the slightly pungent spring smell of the sap leaves that had been cut just after the lawnmower was pushed.

It seemed that in the next second, the cat on the TV screen would meow at the camera.

"The one in the painting...is really my son's Amy."

The illustrator lamented.

How can art be able to show every detail of the unique look of each animal?

How much do you need to know about cats to draw a work like this?
Is this practice or talent?

If it's practice, Jane Arnold would like to know the secret of the other party's practice.

If it's talent - don't grow up among cats since childhood, no... you can draw like this with just a photo and paper information.

To put it in a two-dimensional way, the artist is a cat-girl transformed into a spirit.

Illustrators believe it.

"Detective Cat, Detective Cat, no wonder I gave myself this internet name. She is such a cat-like little girl."

Detective Cat’s profile on FIVERR notes that she is in her 30s.

In terms of age and status, Jane Arnold is still qualified to call her a little girl.

"It would be great if I could have such good cat drawing skills..."

That is to say, each person can only win the Andersen Award once in his life, otherwise it will be renamed the Jane Arnold Award.If he collaborates with companies like Bubble Mart, Disney, and Uniqlo on animal collaborations, he might become the second Andy Warhol even in terms of money-making ability.

Jane Arnold even had a skill in drawing cats that was so smart and cute that it could win the hearts of countless girls. It felt like a waste of natural resources to be held in the hands of a small painter like Detective Cat.

No matter how good you are at painting with a knife, it is still an unpopular painting method.

Jane Arnold would be envious of being able to draw small animals so vividly.

It should be said that no artist in the illustration industry would not be envious.

"How about we see if we can recruit her into our illustration studio?" The illustrator's heart skipped a beat.

Jane Arnold certainly had her own painting studio, but the model was different from that of the Wehrlein studio.

Wehrlein is a bit larger, with nearly ten painters and employees. It is similar to a contractor model and publishes illustrations, movie posters, advertising designs, and game illustrations. They rely on Wehrlein's reputation and connections to attract commissions. What kind of tasks? All answered.

Wehrlein not only painted the paintings himself, but also gave them to his painters, giving them corresponding rewards or commissions.

This is also the most common operating model of illustration studios.

Jane Arnold because he is so special.

He is the best illustrator alive, and he himself is a huge commercial IP and living advertisement.

Basically all the clients who find the studio are the kind of clients who are willing to pay several times the contract premium just in exchange for working with the illustrator himself.

In other words, customers come to him and only want him.

Therefore, he is the only painter in his studio, and the rest are service staff who help him.

In fact, all employees do work that is biased toward assistants.

If an illustration studio suddenly has an additional painter, it will be big news in the industry.

Such thoughts only flashed in Jane Arnold's mind for a moment, and then were driven out of her mind.

When you recruit a detective cat, how do you identify him—is he an employee?Or a partner?

It's an employee who works for him.

Is the Detective Cat himself willing?

Based on the inside story that Jane Arnold knew, she could get astronomical remuneration from the Scholastic Group for her set of "The Little Prince."

How much salary can I offer to make her happy?

If you are a partner, wouldn't it be a bit unworthy just because the other person is good at drawing cats?

He knew very well that Detective Cat was still firmly bound to the negative influence of "Oil Painting" magazine, which was also a very big trouble.

Let's think about it again.

The illustrator returned his attention to his son.

The moment this work appeared on the screen, Tony's expression changed.

He stared at the kitten in the painting with nostalgia and reminiscence, and his gray eyes revealed a depth that was not that of an autistic child.

"Amy... Lineker, Belanov, Maradona... play ball." Tony muttered slowly.

"What is he talking about?" Anya asked curiously.

"It seems to be the name of a star." Dr. Jin Anqing, who played football in college, guessed, "It should be a very old star."

"The stars of the 1986 World Cup, Maradona and Lineker won the Golden Boot and Golden Ball, while Belanov was known as the Soviet Lightning and completed a hat-trick against Belgium. Amy came to us That season at home happened to be the World Cup. TV sets and radio stations all over New Zealand were chanting these names over and over again. It made people’s ears feel calloused.”

"At that time, I remember the doctor asked Tony to integrate into the outside environment, so there was often sports broadcasts playing on the radio next to him, and the servants accompanied Tony and Amy to play push football on the lawn." The master illustrator said quietly: "So Years passed. It never occurred to me that Tony still remembered it."

How many people can still clearly remember what happened when they were four or five years old?

The past 30 years ago was so long ago that even Jane Arnold's mind was blurry. However, this middle-aged man with intellectual problems could still remember the story of playing push football with his cat when he was a child.

probably,

Did this female cat named Amy really light up his childhood life?
"play ball."

Tony approached the TV screen, stretched out his hand and called softly.

Regrettably.

No matter how lifelike the paintings were, it would never be possible for a kitten to actually jump out of the screen and push the ball with him.

Tony stretched out his hand to touch the cat's fur, but he only touched a flat TV screen.

Jane Arnold waved slightly.

The drawings on the TV began to scroll one after another.

Except for the philosophical view without contrasting black and white, the painting ideas are completely modeled on the works of Professor Boggs.

The changing light and shadow on the TV reflected the faces of everyone in the living room.

Because they have already watched the professor's "Amy", everyone is familiar with the form of this set of works, and they were very quiet while watching it.

Only Tony muttered some words that no one could understand from time to time.

The assistant in charge of broadcasting the film calculated it.

In fact, so far, if we compare this electronic version of the picture with Professor Boggs's, there is no clear winner between the two paintings.

Detective Cat's works are better for their authenticity, while Boggs's are better for their ideas.

Use a more layman's explanation.

In terms of the expressiveness of the pictures, Detective Cat's works are better and are more popular with Tony.

But if this was an art competition or a biennale selection, then the winner would most likely be Professor Boggs.

(End of this chapter)