Almighty painter

Chapter 314
A gust of wind blew by, causing ripples on the water.

Gu Weijing took out two small wooden boxes from his backpack and opened them on the picnic table set up by Miss Sakai's bodyguard.

The wooden box is a miniature box between the size of a girl's blush cake and a mooncake box.

One side is blue and the other is bright red. They look like ruby ​​and sapphire seals shining in the sunlight.

The blue side is cyan, and the red side is rouge.

The complexity of Chinese painting pigments is no less than that of oil paints, but only a few single colors are used for each independent flower theme.

Gu Weijing and Sakai Katsuko came to the botanical garden to collect the scenery, and they came to copy the wisteria flowers on the spot.

When painting wisteria flowers, you mainly need to use two colors: cyan and rouge.

In addition, the color intensity of titanium white and leaf green needs to be controlled, and a small piece of oil fume ink tablet made from the smoke of burning tung oil is used.

All the paints can be carried away in a small backpack, which is very convenient.

Gu Weijing took out a plastic file holder from his schoolbag.

It’s not easy to bring rolls of cooked rice paper with you when you go out to collect food.

He was practicing painting some small broken petals. Unlike Gu Tongxiang who went to the park to paint, he also had to consider selling paintings while shouting.

So he cut all the rice paper into one-foot-square rectangular pieces at home last night.

Gu Weijing pressed the paper on the table and looked around.

"I will definitely be able to draw something today." He said to himself.

The botanical garden they are in was originally called the Royal Botanic Gardens and covers an area of ​​177 hectares.

Although the name contains the word "royal", it has nothing to do with the Gongbang Dynasty in the feudal era. It refers to King Edward VII's "leisure garden" in the Far East and the former governors and senior civil servants of the empire where the sun never sets. summer estate.

In terms of architectural design, it is even a sister garden to the famous Royal Botanic Gardens in the western suburbs of London, an authentic British garden with pure blood.

Most of the gardens built by John Bulls are the same.

The British people have an eternal love for all kinds of fountains and colorful flower beds in their genes.

Fan has seen one.

From then on, whether you walk into the garden outside the retired senator's small mansion or into the botanical garden in a foreign country thousands of miles away, you will always feel a sense of déjà vu.

Membrane flowerbeds, English-style promenades, central fountains, and at best lakes and Gothic revival sculptures.

These elements are arranged and combined with each other.

It can almost summarize 90.00% of nine design elements.

Gu Weijing and his party set up an inflatable tent next to a broken fountain sculpture of a forest fairy with a head missing on the lawn by the lake.

The bodyguard used folding buckets to collect local materials and brought a bucket of lake water from the lake.

Gu Weijing wetted the brush in water, mixed the cyanine and rouge, and slowly traced the idea in his mind with the center on the paper, tapping out the flower roots from bottom to top.

For certain formulas of white powder or ocher-like colors, in order to have better dissolution and adhesion to the paper surface, an appropriate amount of alum needs to be added when dipping the paint.

Anthocyanins and traditional rouge are water-soluble pigments purified from plant rhizomes and freshly squeezed leaves of red and blue flowers.

Just use this living water to draw.

First use paint to highlight the most gorgeous petals, wait until the color of the pen tip changes from thick to light, then trace the buds that are about to bloom, and then switch to a small liner pen to trace the veins and flower roots.

When drawing leaf veins.

Keep in mind the formula taught by Professor Lin Tao of "the center is bright green and the pen has a three-point arc", so that the veins of the painted leaves can be green and strong, showing the feeling of petals growing on the branches and swaying in the wind.

Finally, switch back to a small pen, mix the medium ink with rouge, and highlight the calyx.

After such a complete step-by-step process, a bunch of wisteria flowers will be officially completed.

the passage of time

Little purple flowers gradually covered the page in front of Gu Weijing.

"sand."

Gu Weijing wiped the moisture on his forehead slightly exposed to the sun with his sleeve.

[Title of work: "Wisteria"]

[Chinese Painting Techniques: Lv.4 Professional Level 4902 (5000/[-])]

【Emotion: A Simple Work】

He shook his head slightly disappointedly. It didn't matter how failed the painting was. The technique of wisteria flowers was not complicated. With the guidance of the famous teacher Professor Lin Tao, it was not difficult to master the key points.

But the biggest difference between paintings and photography is.

The works photographed by the camera must be similar.

The painting must not only look like it, but also must have the emotion given by the artist himself, so that it can be vividly displayed on paper.

The most dazzling part of Tang Ning's "Hundred Flowers" is that there are 36 kinds of flowers blooming on one tree, showing 36 different flower languages ​​​​and 36 different styles of character.

There is a reason for people to be proud.

This hand is full of beauty and beauty.

It is indeed much more difficult than using thousands of gradient color dots to arrange them carefully on the page to create a dazzling rose. This superficial painting method is much more difficult.

He even copied the original painting.

What Gu Weijing copied was only the skin, not the soul.

Ms. Tang Ning's ability to put the finishing touches on traditional Chinese painting scenes, and her ease and ease of change is not at all as easy as her painting techniques, which she achieved at the first level of a master at the age of 20.

This is the biggest difficulty Gu Weijing faces.

If your grasp of wisteria flowers is limited to the superficial level of these "simple works" in front of you, you will not be able to deeply grasp the subtle emotional state.

He has painted countless wisteria flowers of this level since April.

By now, he may have to string together a dozen or so small flowers like this before he can see the Chinese painting progress bar on the system panel, and he reluctantly jumps up a little.

Whether you want to copy Tang Ning's "Hundred Flowers" or use it to break through to the second level of the profession, it's not enough.

When he was reading "Heavenly Rain Flowing Fragrance", there was a moment when he felt that he had found the feeling.

When Gu Weijing concentrated on recalling that state, he fell into a deeper confusion.

In the artistic conception of orthodox traditional Chinese painting, wisteria flowers represent the wealth and nobility that comes from the east.

In Li Bai's "Wisteria Tree", "wisteria hangs cloud trees, and the flower vines are suitable for spring", which reveals the prosperity of spring mountain flowers.

In "Sky Rain Flowing Fragrance", Xu's chosen painting method of "throwing litter among wild vines" reveals the desolation of a pearl covered in dust.

In Ms. Tang Ning's "Hundred Flowers", the small purple flowers dotted between the peonies and plum blossoms are like a few drops of fresh and distant purple mist among the blooming flowers, which is difficult to fathom.

At this moment, Gu Weijing seemed to be standing at the intersection of a cross street shrouded in fog. Every road in all directions seemed to lead to the distance. At the end of every road, there was also a rope stretched out to hold him. On the body.

Any of these solutions seems to make sense.

When he steps towards a certain road, he seems to be pulled against each other by inexplicable resistance, and various artistic conceptions are entangled together.Gu Weijing discovered it.

On the contrary, he couldn't figure out what kind of floral artistic conception was appropriate to paint.

It is for this reason.

Only then did I have the idea to come to the botanical garden, stand under the real flower trees, and experience what it feels like when the vines and flowers fall from my shoulders like purple water.

After arriving, I discovered that the environment here is really good for painting and collecting style.

The botanical garden in spring is its most beautiful season, with colorful flowers in full bloom.

There are not many pedestrians.

Myanmar’s hot season has not yet completely passed, and there are only a few scattered international tourists.

The locals are busy making a living. There is a dense virgin jungle outside Yangon. Most residents have no interest in taking the train to come here to see the plants.

In addition to the sound of the wind and the undulation of the water seeping into the gaps between the round marble embankments on the shore, there is the sound of slowly flowing out.

Gu Weijing and Sakai Shengzi seemed to have entered a small peaceful circle around them.

The female bodyguard and Uncle Alai used charcoal and solid alcohol to light a portable barbecue tray more than ten meters away.

The two young men were painting and didn't seem to want to eat barbecue.

They didn't bother Gu Weijing, they just had a ride there and didn't know what to talk about.

Ever since the brief conversation that day, the bodyguard lady was both curious and respectful towards the lame man, and the two of them got along quite well.

Jasmine chased Awang for a few laps on the lawn, and she chased him until he gave up resistance completely.

April is cat hair season.

The civet cat is not a long-haired cat like a Persian cat that lives in high latitudes like a big ball of wool, but Awang's hair is also very beautiful.

She had always felt that she was very stylish, with her ginger-spotted hair like a little tiger and the fat gained from eating cat food this month, making her become a burden in the bright sunshine.

As soon as I moved, I was exposed to the high temperature and my body temperature was a little high. My soles were wet with sweat and I was listless.

Awang found a place in the shade and lay down, then he chose to lie down and handed all the ten kilograms of his soft meat to Jasmine to flatten and round.

Do you want to play with me? I want a cat.

You can masturbate as much as you like, I want to sleep anyway.

In general.

This is a great place where people can calm down and engage in artistic creation without any external distractions.

The only problem is that Katsuko Sakai's appearance is quite eye-catching. Sometimes when she walks on the streets of Yangon, she will be asked to take a photo with her by eager foreign tourists.

But now Gu Weijing and Sakai Katsuko look like a couple or brother and sister from a distance.

Basically, no one would come over to strike up a conversation out of trouble.

In the morning, there were only a few bolder and more promiscuous Italian backpackers who came over to ask if I could be lucky enough to invite them over to drink beer and listen to music.

The main thing was to invite Sakai Katsuko, and Gu Weijing was just an accessory.

Before they managed to get close, they were intercepted by the bodyguard lady in advance and declined politely.

however.

With such a beautiful view, Gu Weijing was still a little disturbed, and felt a little annoyed.

The most important question is.

Where are the flowers?

Damn it, where did those two huge wisteria trees on the travel guide go!
That's right.

Contrary to expectations, when they first arrived at the Botanical Garden, they learned some not-so-good news.

The flowering period of wisteria in Eastern Summer is from late April to early May every year.

The climate in Yangon is humid and warmer than that in Eastern Summer, and the flowering time will be a few weeks earlier. At this time, it is the time to appreciate the wisteria flowers.

the only thing that is missing.

Wisteria is a very cheap common flower that grows in Asia. It grows in abundance in Jiangnan in Eastern Xia, Seoul in South Korea, and Nara in Japan.

But in Yangon, it is not a common plant.

It is difficult to find this small purple floral flower in the neighborhoods around Gu's Book Gallery and in several city parks in Yangon.

Fortunately, Sakai Katsuko specifically consulted the botanical illustrations and found that when the Royal Botanic Gardens were built, the British wanted to make the king's Far Eastern Garden an all-encompassing plant appreciation site just like the Botanical Expo, in order to show the atmosphere of the empire on which the sun never sets. garden.

They specially invited naturalists from the Royal Society to transplant hundreds of common plants in Asia, including more than [-] species of roses alone.

The social atmosphere at that time was like this.

The British wanted to claim dominion not only over the inhabitants of the five continents but over all kinds of animals and plants.

In addition to similar botanical museums, there are also ethnozoological zoos that are more full of racial prejudice.It is also a product of that era to lock up residents of different skin colors in five continents, mainly Asia and Africa, in zoos and let people watch them like monkeys for a fee.

It's a blessing in disguise, how could you know it's not a blessing?
The British collecting habit at least 200 years ago helped Gu Weijing. The official plant list of the Royal Botanic Garden in Yangon includes wisteria.

They excitedly came over by train and walked around in a big circle, but they didn't see the shadow of the wisteria tree at all.

Uncle Alai went to the park to ask the cultivation researchers before he learned about it.

In 19, the Botanical Garden was renovated and a circular waterway was built based on the central water system to facilitate boating competitions during the Water Splashing Festival and attract international tourists.

Two large wisteria trees were cut down when the cruise pier was being built, and they arrived three years late.

"What the hell is this?"

Gu Wei carefully crumpled the small rice paper on the table into a ball with his hands and threw it on the lawn aside.

Before lunch time, Gu Weijing had accumulated five or six paper balls filled with failed wisteria flowers and leaves at his feet.

It's like God is against him.

It was the same thing at the station in the morning, the video on the train station was the same, and it was still the same in the botanical garden.

Everything doesn't go his way.

If he had known that the wisteria trees in the botanical garden were gone, he would not have come here on a hot day!

Gu Weijing was vaguely aware that his current mentality was not very energetic.

In fact, it is not a big deal to encounter this kind of problem when you go out to collect pictures. The model invited in the studio is not dedicated and moves around, or you have designed it in your mind and want to paint the ancient Greek god of war, Ares, as graceful and smooth as The lines are exaggerated and have explosive muscle texture.As a result, the model brought in by the studio teacher was a skinny little old man. Let me tell you, it all looks the same.

This kind of bad thing happens all the time.

There are more uncertainties when going out to collect information.

There are no wisteria trees, but looking at this beautiful botanical garden is actually a good way to learn about painting.

(End of this chapter)