Almighty painter

Chapter 378 Watercolor Improvement

"How's your painting going? Do you want to take a break?"

The sketch teacher raised his chin and asked casually, while the fingers hidden in his pocket kept flexing and stretching.

Art practitioners' knuckles are severely worn or suffer from tenosynovitis, which is about to become a common occupational disease.

For illustrators who have a relatively heavy workload, I heard that some have specially trained their left hand to draw left and right.

If your left hand hurts, switch to your right hand; if your right hand hurts, switch to your left hand.

Just thinking about it is filled with the blood and tears of hardworking workers.

The second joint of Professor Watter's right index finger was a little excessively worn and he went to the hospital to have a X-ray taken.

Fortunately, it was not at the level of arthritis or synovitis, and the fluid accumulation was not serious enough to require additional treatment.

Doctors suggest that daily hot compresses and massage are enough.

He concentrated on practicing sketching and drawing lines in front of his desk for more than ten minutes. When I draw from life, I pay attention to freehand brushwork and lightness. When I imitate the lines of other people's works, it is a laborious task.

No need to use force to see through the paper backing.

It is also best to write accurately and steadily, firmly, thickly and smoothly to reproduce the transitional and rounded lines of other painters on the paper on the paper.

After Vettel practiced a few times, his fingers began to feel sore.

The soreness of muscles and joints is reduced to soreness, but the spirit is still quite pleasant.

True.

High school teachers and even ordinary painters may not be able to earn more money with a slight improvement in their painting skills.

But any art practitioner, as long as he has a little pursuit and sees himself painting a better work, will feel happy.

Professor Wattel is so far away from the art center and is no longer in his prime years of "promoting painting". He is a professional painter with neither high nor low standards. How difficult it is to improve his skills!

It had been a long, long time since he had felt visible progress in the pencil lines of the previous and later exercises when practicing on a piece of work.

although.

This “visible to the naked eye” progress is modest.

Critics with better eyesight can only roughly, roughly, estimate... determine that there may be a small improvement in line skills after careful consideration, and it may even be regarded as a normal fluctuation of the painter's performance.

Converted into experience points on the system panel, it only increased by more than a dozen points, with a total improvement of no more than 20 points.

But Professor Wattel knows very well that if you improve, you will improve.

No matter how small the progress is, it is solid progress.

"Really cool!"

Not everyone is Picasso. He can be divided into six or seven different painting periods in his life, and he can still make breakthroughs in painting style in his old age.

At Vattel's age, there is no pursuit for ordinary practitioners.

Talking about making further progress is a lie.

Not to mention that they can't be called a hundred-foot pole.

It is not easy to maintain the original length of a ten-foot bamboo strip. Many people have already sailed against the current as soon as they leave school, and have reached the stage of decline in their skills of "If you don't advance, you will retreat."

In his later years, Renoir changed his career to portraying the body of unclothed girls.

Huddled in his country villa, he drew various girls with and without clothes every day.

Many critics complained that his painting style had become vulgar and boring, and that he had turned from the unique Renoir to the second Rubens.

However, there are also some sympathetic scholars who speculate that this is because his arthritis and gout became more and more severe in his later years, which reduced his ability to control his pen, and his writing skills were no longer able to support the fine short lines he had in his early years. The height of drawing.

Even teenagers like Gu Weijing, whose physical functions are at their peak.

When faced with the bottleneck of the last few hundred points of the professional painter, the first level, he was also tortured to death. He spent a long time painting by the lake, and the experience bar didn't even give him face, but he didn't make any move.

Now that he is going against the trend of increasing age, how can he not let Vettel feel so happy?

He felt the long-lost excitement and joy when he was learning to paint when he was young, as if the lost time was starting to flow back again in his writing.

Full of desire to show off to someone, he strolled over.

Wattel stood at the door, stretched his varicose palms, and then put his palms against his hips and pressed down gently. In the slight soreness, he listened to the small air cavities between his finger joints, as if he was holding a handful of soybeans and slowly rubbing and squeezing them. That kind of unnoticeable popping sound allows the finger muscles to fully stretch.

It's a pity, no matter what I think in my mind.

The student who was looking for a room said, "I copied your painting, and my skills improved instantly! The lines you drew are very good, and now it is mine."

It seems a bit embarrassing just thinking about the scene.

This prevented Professor Vatel, a German who was rigid on the outside but sullen on the inside, from fully venting his desire for expression.

"Fortunately, there has been significant improvement and rapid progress." Gu Weijing nodded.

"My training methods are useful, as long as they improve. This is the essence of my teaching, which is to let every student slowly begin to feel improvement and progress through accumulated training over time."

Watter's praise of Gu Weijing was quite useful.

He nodded vigorously, thought for a while, and hummed softly.

Significantly improved?

Oh, young man.

Watercolor practice is similar to grid drawing. It is a repetitive ink skill of painting one stroke at a time, just like doing radio gymnastics in the morning.

I don’t know the effect of my teaching methods?

It's effective, but it's also slow.

Generally, art students need to practice for at least a month at the beginning, so that they can gradually become familiar with the brush during the flat painting process.

Only by repeatedly practicing the application of strokes and having a general judgment on the way the paint spreads and flows can your fingers gradually stabilize.

After only ten minutes of painting, I said that I had mastered it. Hey, young people have a big tone.

Why doesn't he go to heaven?

The so-called Internet meme "How dare you use my curse to attack me, Potter?" - Gu Weijing used the painting method created by Professor Wattel to talk about the rapid progress.

It's quite humorous.

Although it was a polite compliment, Professor Sketch himself blushed a little when he heard it.

I just learned to practice hooking outside. That kind of progress is called obvious improvement, and it doesn't count if you practice flat painting here.

"I feel that progress is a good thing. Don't be anxious. Just do one good deed every day and make a little progress every day."

Watter strolled over and said with a smile, and glanced sideways at Gu Weijing.

"This kind of painting method is often practiced and always new. When you have nothing to do, just pick up the pen, pick up the paint and apply two strokes. There will never be any harm. You should feel the gravity more, feel the flow of paint, Mother Earth Only then will I open my arms to embrace you.”

Wattel picked up the brush.

"Come on, let me give you two more strokes to demonstrate. I just explained it in a hurry. You may not know yet what the benchmark for flat painting practice is, and what kind of strokes you need to get to be counted. It’s a good flat coating.”

The sketch teacher took the watercolor pen with his right hand, still put his left hand confidently in his pocket, raised his chin, and motioned to Gu Weijing to step aside and give him the space in front of the workbench.

Concentrate and hold your breath, lower your head and pick up the pen gracefully.

Professor Wattel looked at the almost completed coloring exercise on the tilted workbench. The sketch teacher put one hand in his pocket and held a pen in the other. His neck was tilted 45 degrees to the lower right and he was staring at the drawing board. When he took this pose, he really looked like an artist.

the strange thing is.

After Wattle posed for five seconds, he quietly put down the pen again.

"Uh... Gu, have you ever practiced flat painting before?" Professor Watter turned his head and looked at Gu Weijing beside him, glanced at him, then looked at him again, and finally turned around.

Just because I am familiar with watercolor.

Vettel found it even more incredible.

As soon as the expert takes action, he will know whether there is coloring in the last third or so of the water covered bridge.

The strokes are soft, the strokes are light, and the strokes are smooth.

The weight of the entire brush strokes is just right, not so exaggerated that it looks like it was drawn with a ruler and pen.

But it's just smooth.

in particular.

Judging from the lower edge of the last stroke of paint, the entire stroke is on a smooth straight line, and the entire paint spread is almost the same. This means that the artist's wrist force is extremely stable.

Flat painting is the most basic painting method in watercolor.

If Wattel draws it himself, it would be difficult for such a simple line to be significantly improved.

"No, no, no."

Before Gu Weijing could say anything, Watter himself was already shaking his head.

From his teaching experience, it is clear that Gu Weijing's strokes and lines when he first painted still had obvious ups and downs and color differences, which are the most common manifestations on paper of art students who are not proficient in controlling watercolor pens. .

And this kind of performance improves rapidly in the process of laying out the watercolor corridor bridge on the paper in gray and white tones.

Even the word visible to the naked eye may not be able to accurately summarize this kind of speed of improvement.

It's the kind of thing where ordinary people who have never had any contact with it will clearly feel that the first half and the second half of the covered bridge were not painted by the same artist at all.

It's a bit unbelievable.

Well known.

The stage where a person's skills improve most rapidly is often when he or she has just come into contact with a certain painting method. A final paper can make a student with a normal IQ improve from 0 to 10 very quickly.

For some schools, you still get 3 points if you write your name in the correct position.

The problem is that Gu Weijing didn't put much energy into the watercolor class, but he was not a beginner at all. The improvement he showed on paper is not a 90- to 100-point improvement, but a 50- to 60-point qualitative change.

starting time.

Gu Weijing is obviously still unfamiliar with the dissolution and diffusion of watercolor paint, and the lines in his brush are very tight. And the last few strokes, free and easy, have already reached the standard level of this kind of coloring practice.

Teacher Wattel originally thought that no matter how talented he was, it would feel very good to get started.

It also takes three weeks to a month of practice to draw to this level.

Now, the changes and evolutions that ordinary people can achieve after dozens of days of practice are all condensed onto the same drawing paper in front of them.

The sketch teacher thinks this world is really weird.

If he hadn't taught Gu Weijing for many years, he would have some understanding of this student, especially since the other party didn't have any reason to do this.

He even suspected that Gu Weijing came here today to ask for watercolor lessons, and he came here specifically to act like him!

Wait!

If this is not the purpose of acting it, could it be...

His painting teaching method is so impressive, but he has never developed its full effectiveness?

Wattle's heart trembled as he thought of a possibility.

Could it be that he, Walter, could have become a great professor in the watercolor department of the Royal College of Art, but instead went to a private school like Dulwich College and was overshadowed by the pearl?

"Hey, by the way, how did I teach you?"

The sketching professor was ecstatically recalling all the conversations he had with Gu Weijing at noon today, wondering whether he had accidentally said something like "open sesame", a wise saying that could be recorded in the history of art education, but was ignored by himself. Inadvertently neglected and forgotten?

bang-

The fingers pressed too hard on the waist, and the cartilage of the knuckles made a crisp sound.

Professor Wattel felt a little pain and hurriedly took his fingers out of his pocket, ignoring the pain. He looked at his palms and then at the drawing board in front of him.

I can't wait to do a set of flat painting exercises right away.

Is this thing really so amazing and so effective?

"I haven't practiced watercolor flat painting specifically."

Gu Weijing's voice interrupted Vatel's free thinking: "However, I have a background in soft pen writing. I think this experience has helped me a lot."

"Soft pen base?"

Watter was stunned again.

Chinese painting and Japanese painting are independent painting routes. Many European universities also offer similar courses, but if you are not an art student who is dedicated to the research direction of Oriental art, you will be able to study Chinese painting and Japanese painting.

Normal European and American students have no access to similar art theories.

In addition, there is no concept of calligraphy in German history.

Traditionally they also used wolf-brushes, nylon soft-bristle brushes, but that was only a necessary tool for oil painting or watercolor.

Wattel didn't quite understand what the soft pen meant.

Gu Weijing thought for a while.

He picked a small-sized chicken pen from the painting supplies.

The chicken-tip pen is a type of watercolor pen with long middle bristles, short outer bristles, and an olive-shaped tip. It can be used to spread color when painting flatly, or to outline details on a prepared background. , the scope of application is quite large.

The only difference between its shape and a brush is that its tip is slightly fatter than a traditional brush.

Other than that, nothing else.

most of the time.

The Trouble-Saving Brush and the Chicken Pen can be used interchangeably.

Gu Weijing dipped some paint into the blank space of the watercolor paper and sketched a gray-white rose flower on the blank space of the watercolor paper. After thinking about it, he wrote "Gu" in regular script next to it. Three words: "为经".

"Here, teacher, look. This is the base of the soft pen,"

Gu Weijing showed that what he said was true.

A person who scores points in calligraphy appreciation.

Cao Xuan was very disdainful of Gu Weijing's calligraphy skills. He wanted to have no bones, no body, no sinews, and called him a black pig.

Wattle was shocked.

What is this?

It was like everyone was practicing fencing together. Just now, this guy was learning to thrust and block, and in the blink of an eye, he danced a standard hexagram with the tip of his sword.

(End of this chapter)