Almighty painter

Chapter 302 The Painting of Parting
Detective Cat said that she had to prepare a lot of works, so it would take more time.

This sentence is not false.

The set of pictures currently displayed on the TV screen contains more rich life scenes than Professor Boggs' "Amy".

From the meeting to the separation of Amy, Professor Boggs painted a total of six works.

Detective Cat painted nearly twenty works.

No one found it too lengthy.

Because the cat's expression is different in each drawing, the appreciation experience is also different.

Every time the screen flashes and the audience focuses on the next drawing, they are reading a brand new story.

The most amazing thing is the feeling when making eye contact - making eye contact with the cat in the drawing is a bit weird.

The moment Ms. Anya's eyes meet the dark pupils of the cat in Detective Cat's painting, she will have the illusion that she is communicating with the cat.

Its eyes can speak!
Amy's eyes are excited when sitting on the drawing of a cat sitting on a swing; when chasing a ball with Tony, her eyes have both the wildness of a predator and the love and affection of a nanny...

What impressed the female artist the most was the third drawing of Detective Cat.

The template for that painting was a photo scene half a year after Amy came to Jane Arnold's home.

In drawing.

Under the warm sunshine.

Tony and Amy fell asleep on the sun chairs under the grape vines in the yard, and the sunlight was cut into pieces by the grape vines.On the recliner, the sleeping positions of one person and one cat are almost carved out of the same mold.

The same four feet in the air.

Same belly facing out.

The average temperature in New Zealand is not very high. It seems that people and cats are a little cold, and they shrink their necks slightly.

In this drawing, the artist relied on his imagination to recreate the scene when the cat just woke up. Amy raised her eyelids, turned her head and looked away from the screen, her eyelids slightly opened.

The picture is very realistic.

The milky white paint was used by the oil painting knife to weave interlaced white fluff on the face of the folded-eared kitten, with a little moisture.

The detective cat had just put the little kitten down from a good sleep, and when it seemed to be awake, the cute confusion and confusion on its face were clearly revealed.

Its moist eyes were moist and soft, looking like a sleepy baby.

The kitten's tail is wagging gently.

Ms. Anya's heart was also shaking gently.

No joke.

It’s so cute and fun!
When she looked into those little eyes that filled people with the desire to protect her, Ms. Anya's heart was filled with motherly feelings.

Even though the female artist is single and unmarried, she stares at the misty expression of the kitten on the screen.

She also had the urge to have a baby and raise it, so as to experience the joy of being a mother and watching her baby look so cute after taking a nap.

Boggs and Detective Cat.

They are all artists full of spirit, and they have all found an anchor point in their hearts to express to the audience the differences in age after the cat Amy came home in the drawing.

The professor very cleverly used the metaphor of hair grayscale to express Amy's process of growing from a kitten to a big cat and then gradually aging with a pun, and also hinted at the transformation of the cycle of life and death.

Detective Cat is much simpler and more direct.

There is no elaborate gradient design, no black and white composition.

She just used the simplest and most difficult method to match the different eyes of the cat in the drawing when getting along with Amy.

15 years of time.

From ignorance to maturity, from strangeness to kindness...

No matter how the environment changes, only a pair of eyes can express it.

This is the mastery and ingenuity of the painter.

Whenever a scene that overlaps with the six drawings of "Amy" appears on the screen.

Everyone can't help but cast their eyes on Boggs' face.

Professor Boggs has been acting crazy.

From time to time, he waved his hands in the air and tugged at his beard wildly. His white hair, which had been scratched by kittens, made his appearance somewhere between Einstein and a cult leader.

Admiration, astonishment, confusion, surprise, bewilderment...

Various expressions appeared alternately on his face.

The corners of his mouth were sometimes raised and sometimes lowered, and his eyes were sometimes disdainful and sometimes admiring. In addition, the changing light from the TV in the dark living room shone on him, reflecting Professor Boggs's cheeks dimly.

Everything.

It all makes the old professor's temperament look ghostly.

The assistant smiled evilly when he saw this scene.

"It's so beautiful. Appreciating such high-definition paintings is completely different from seeing the illustrations printed on the pages of a book. I thought that Professor Boggs's work skills would make people admire them. I didn't expect the skills of Ms. Detective Cat. Can’t find anything less than a professor.”

Nominally he was praising the two artists' skills in a high-sounding way, but secretly he was actually making them angry.

"I am a relative layman, but I still feel that it is a great honor to see Professor Boggs and Ms. Detective Cat. The works of these two artists are equally comparable and complement each other."

The assistant pretended to be an ordinary spectator who was deeply moved by the knife painting, and was almost moved to tears.

Trivia.

Artists are very strange and arrogant. Without being familiar with their personalities, it would be a bit provocative to rashly praise two painters of the same subject together.

Many people know that Manet and Monet were good friends.

But before they got to know each other, Manet had been furious because critics said that there was a newly famous little painter in Paris who painted in a style that was very similar to his own, and he felt he had been insulted.

This is a bit like complimenting two female celebrities in private on how beautiful they are. As a result, the other party thinks that a certain bitch is not worthy of being compared with her, so if she is more willful, she may throw a glass of champagne over them.

Wen has no first, Wu has no second.

Professor Boggs said he was here to defeat the Detective Cat, and now his paintings are almost the same as his electronic versions.

Listen to yourself boasting like this.

Can this old guy feel comfortable now?

The assistant's knowledge of knife painting is far inferior to Anya's.

But it doesn't hinder his emotional intelligence and his ability to handle people's affairs tactfully. He could easily defeat everyone in the room except Dr. Jin Anqing.

Seeing that Professor Boggs looked like he was about to explode, he first added fuel to the fire without leaving any trace.

"SHIT! Shut up if you're a layman."

Professor Boggs was really fired up.

He simply couldn't bear it and cursed loudly.

"Equal skills? What a bullshit description." The corners of Professor Boggs' eyes twitched.

The assistant was preparing to perform gracefully - "I'm sorry, I'm just an ordinary audience member. I didn't expect that the compliment just now offended you. I'm really sorry. I just spoke out of emotion. I think both of you draw equally beautiful paintings." of tea art.

He heard Professor Boggs continue to say: "How am I worthy to be in front of this set of works and talk about being equal in technique?"

Huh?
The assistant froze.

He wondered if he had heard wrongly. Things seemed to be unfolding differently than planned.

Professor Boggs ignored everyone's astonishment.

He crossed his hands, as if Xizi was holding her heart, and there was reverence in his eyes: "Her paintings of cats are so beautiful and spiritual. Her painting hands must have been kissed by the muse."

The assistant's face trembled.

Did the old guy really go crazy because he couldn't bear the blow?

"Your painting is also very good. Of course, her cat is indeed very clever." Anya said.

"No, for a set of drawings with cats as the theme. Cats are everything. Just based on the performance of the protagonist 'Amy', Detective Cat is infinitely better than my superficial depiction." Bo Professor Gus shook his head.

The assistant got something wrong from the start.

It is true that Boggs is a weird and narcissistic old man, but the professor has always been a very pure artist.

Artists who are truly pure to a certain extent are often weirdos that ordinary people cannot understand, and are brainless believers in art.

He was so proud.He is so proud that he will only do perfunctory work for the electronic drawings of Detective Cat, and will be angry if he is not serious, but he will not be angry because of the good drawing of Detective Cat.

Even if Professor Boggs came all the way here, he was confident that he would trample the detective cat under his feet.

But as long as he has shown his best painting state, the result is that he will be stepped on by the detective cat's paw.

Professor Boggs is disappointed, but not regretful.

Even like shaking M and still being very excited.

Not crazy, not live.

At the pinnacle battle of Waterloo in the minds of idiots, if he was destined not to be Wellington, it would be an honor to be a defeated Napoleon.

The key is art.

The key is...this set of drawings taught Professor Boggs again. He thought he had reached the limit of his oil painting knife, but it turns out he can still paint like this!
There is a day out there.

"The Little Prince" opens the door to the supreme technique for Professor Boggs.

The drawings on the TV in front of him opened up a new field for Professor Boggs on how to use a drawing knife to interpret a good story.

Can the oil painting knife, which is characterized by abstraction and hazyness, really be so vivid and realistic!
The exquisiteness and agility of this kind of cat has broken away from the shackles of rough and freehand drawings, and is objectively not inferior to the realistic expressiveness of some watercolor works.

After Boggs realized that his picture was not as good as Detective Cat's, he just pulled his beard in distress and scratched randomly in the air.

It's not him who has Parkinson's disease.

The old professor was trying hard to restore the scene in his mind when Detective Cat was painting.

For more than 50 years, he has focused exclusively on the painting skills of a single genre. Even without an oil painting knife, canvas and paint, he can still copy an oil painting based on his imagination without any physical objects.

Professor Boggs discovered.

He could do every stroke of Detective Cat's work perfectly, but when the textures of these strokes were combined in his mind, they were a bit different from the drawings on the screen.

It's like installing a computer with a bunch of electronic parts according to the instructions. After assembling it step by step, the computer just won't light up.

He lacks the emotional core.

Professor Boggs still hasn’t figured it out until now.

They were all drawing on photos, and how did the detective cat inject vitality and magic into the cat's blink of an eye and twitch of its beard.

But he has already realized that other people's paintings are more "advanced" than his.

Such an obvious gap.

The assistant said that his and Detective Cat's work skills were on par, and Professor Boggs sounded like he was scolding himself.

"Unfortunately, I was still too hasty. I didn't think carefully before painting. I just relied on my talent to beat people."

"She could have done better...if she had come to me and asked me to train her for a few years..."

Professor Boggs blew his beard again, his face full of sorrow for his misfortune and anger.

"You were angry and crazy just now because you think the creative design of her work is not enough?" Ms. Anya understood what Professor Boggs meant.

If there is anything debatable about this painting.

Then it’s about creative ideas.

Professor Boggs's black and white reincarnation was obviously carefully considered and designed before creation. The correlation and echo between each picture, and the rotation between virtuality and reality, seem to be an ingenious nine-heart ivory ball sculpture. , has been carefully polished.

The creative design and painting techniques of a work are equally important, they are the two legs of the work.

When the first painting of "Amy" catches the eye, the audience can read the Zen flavor.

Looking at paintings is like entering a temple to worship Buddha. Before entering the Mahavira Hall with a clear understanding of the theme of "reincarnation", you can smell the smell of incense and ash floating in the air.

Detective Cat’s work fails to transcend the confines of the canvas.

She just relies on her excellent cat painting skills to reproduce the scenes in daily photos with an oil painting knife.

This is what Professor Boggs calls "beating people based on talent alone" without any creative ideas of their own.

The creative design and painting techniques of "Amy" can be rated ten points.

Detective Cat's painting skills may be a perfect [-] points, but the thought put into the creation and design is not even [-] points.

"Hmph, comic book writers are a waste." Professor Boggs snorted angrily.

In his opinion, there are probably only two factors that can cause this.

Firstly, Detective Cat still lacks the guidance of a famous teacher.

Secondly, Detective Cat has so many jobs as an illustrator, a "driver" who drives a taxi for his employer, that he has no idea of ​​his own painting.

Professor Boggs wished he could fly to Africa, kidnap Ms. Detective Cat back, lock her in the studio of his college, and teach her how to paint for several years.

Tell her that only by forming your own art concepts can you be a real artist.

"Let's see. She should have her own ideas."

Jane Arnold smiled and didn't care too much about her career as a great artist. Professor Boggs said that she just "draws comic books".

"What's the use? We all know Amy's result. She has already..."

Boggs shrugged: "It's just a beautiful mistake that is destined to be destroyed. If Detective Cat's work stops here, it will just remind Tony of broken memories. If she continues to draw like this, the result will be Just let Tony get hurt once."

He points to the screen.

"The better Detective Cat is now, the more serious the damage will be to Tony when his memories are recalled."

Eighteen works were played one after another, and now on the TV screen was the Detective Cat version of a group photo in front of a private clinic.

The cat's paws were placed on Tony's head, and his eyes looking at the camera were gentle as before.

Tony, who was standing in front of the TV screen, was completely immersed in that memory, and everyone's comments had nothing to do with him.

Tony stared at the drawing quietly, with crystal tears flashing in his eyes.

Everyone was in awe.

The painter is not a Marvel movie with the Time Stone. This anonymous painter is called Detective Cat and is not Doraemon.

Even if she is Doraemon, in the episode "Panax", Doraemon has pills that can cure all diseases in the world, but the only thing that cannot be cured is death.

Amy is dead.

Before this irreversible fact.

How beautiful the memories are, how painful the separation is.

"Is there another one?" Jane Arnold asked softly.

The assistant swiped the screen, and the next drawing appeared on the TV.

That was the scene in the pet ward.

Tony huddled in the corner of the room holding the cat's cradle.

At the edge of the drawing, several arms and fingers stretched out towards them were revealed. They were the people who wanted to take Amy to euthanasia.

For the first time, the color matching on the Detective Cat artwork became a bit messy.

It’s not like a novice is scrambling around with colors on the palette, or a mess in the color science tube.

The artist seems to have deliberately painted a dull, irritable, and depressing mood, which secretly echoes the theme of this "painting of separation".

In order to create a warm and painless atmosphere.

In the video of "Love Ritual", the walls of the pet ward are all light pink, but Detective Cat obviously adjusted the color tone of the picture, turning the entire ward into cadmium orange.

Cadmium orange is a very special color on the paint list. It is a red with a bit of yellow and a bit of white.

It is generally composed of different proportions of lemon yellow and madder red.

What’s special about it is that the different proportions of mixed colors allow it to switch freely between warm and cold tones.

Imagine a stone wall with only a small portion of the sun shining through.

Under warm light, cadmium orange gives people a warm feeling, while under cold light, cadmium orange gives people a cold and cold look.

In the direction of the outstretched arms of the adults in the ward, there is still a relatively warm orange light. As it spreads and exceeds the core of the main body of the picture, the picture becomes colder and darker.

When it comes to the theme of Tony holding the cat, the screen is so gray that even the wind in the air has frozen.

Just like the gray and hairless body of a cat.

It was just like Tony's eyes that were so sad that he looked dead.

(End of this chapter)