Almighty painter

Chapter 379 Tickets

"Breath, use your breath to control the rhythm of using the pen. This is a boy's skill. I have practiced it since I was a child. If you want to control the use of the pen, you can try to copy the calligraphy stickers of Zhao Mengfu or Yan Zhenqing. My grandfather made me practice it more since I was a child. "

Gu Weijing shrugged and revealed his secret to controlling the brush.

"Breathe?"

Watter raised his eyebrows, looking a little confused.

this time.

He stared at the elegant regular script on the paper for a long time, when he finally turned his head again and laid his eyes on Gu Weijing.

It seems to understand.

It seems that I don't understand.

The look on his face was quite like that of when he walked into a massage parlor by the Yangon River for the first time and saw an old acupuncturist using a set of silver needles to prick the patient's back.

Half of them are marveling at the magic of the East.

Half of them wanted to call the police.

However, at the end of the day.

The sketching professor was still more amazed.

Artists are a group of amazing people.

There are yoga masters who must practice Pilates before painting, there are old laymen like Boggs who signed up for the Eastern Xia Tour Group, indulged in Zen, and have since converted to my Buddha, and there are also Mrs. Sakai who like mindfulness meditation. Female artist.

Anyway, after all.

It is a kind of tempering of the state of mind and the control of the stability of muscle painting.

Vatel regarded this as some kind of mysterious traditional Kung Fu, full of unknown and powerful meaning, and marveled at it.

Don’t look at efficacy, look at curative effect.

Judging from the results, the smoothness and stability of the pen in front of me cannot be faked.

Sketch outline.

Vatel could secretly take a pencil and learn to imitate it, but the Chinese rose flower and the smoothness of the three characters "Gu Weijing" were like magic in front of his eyes.

He knew that even if he took a chicken-slip pen and copied it, he would not be able to copy it.

"Well, I also think that round-head watercolor brushes are more difficult to control than flat-head basic paint brushes. I didn't expect... you actually have this skill."

Wattel gave a thumbs up and sighed again.

After figuring out that it was not me who taught the law.

His mood was indescribably complicated.

It's quite like digging out a 500 million double color lottery ticket in the washing machine that has expired, and finally discovering that one number is wrong. It turns out that there is no such mixed feeling of winning.

At least.

He no longer had to feel so sorry for missing the great professor from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts that he had just imagined in his mind.

"I'm free every Wednesday and Friday afternoon." Vettel thought about his recent schedule.

"It's up to you. If you have time, you can come to me and paint. I can give you a small lesson. The difficulty of watercolor is that it is more delicate than oil painting. You are so good—— Hmm - 'soft brush skills'. It shouldn't take us more than a month to go through all the commonly used painting methods in the field of watercolor."

Wattel rubbed his hands and suggested.

Even if Gu Weijing's hand can control watercolor brushes, he can't develop it.

But when I was teaching the other person to paint watercolors, I continued to secretly ponder and study his sketch lines, which was not bad.

"Well, thank you, please."

Gu Weijing thought for a while.

The teacher took the initiative to take the time to teach himself, and there was no reason why he should not agree.

The paintings in my art exhibition and the invitations for Detective Cat are on track. It’s time to take the time to learn watercolor and add a common technique.

He is currently teaching in large classes at Dulwich College and has not been able to learn much in terms of techniques.

Free one-on-one coaching is still very useful.

The level of the master techniques provided by the system is too high.

It's as high as a mountain covered by clouds and fog with no end in sight.

Some down-to-earth and simple painting principles.

On the contrary, it was Professor Wattel who learned faster with just a few reminders.

The system will specifically provide knowledge cards as one of the rewards because experiential drawing skills cannot completely replace knowledge learning.

Just from the simplest flat painting method, Gu Weijing gained a lot today.

It shouldn't even take a month, until he systematically sorts out all the overall watercolor techniques.

It was time to officially break through to the first level of the profession.

"After you go back, try to use the same gray and white paint on top of the already painted color, and paint a layer of color on the bridge deck pillars. After it dries, use the same color again to paint some mottled masonry to intensify the color. .”

"Observe the gradual deepening and darkening of the paint as it continues to cover the layered colors."

"You mentioned before that you felt difficulties when covering the dyeing. The so-called covering dyeing is the continuous superposition of the flat coating method."

"The same pigment is repeatedly superimposed on the paper to present four color levels from light to heavy, from shiny and smooth to mottled and dark. This is a state that oil painting cannot achieve."

"Once you master color, the difficulties will cease to exist."

Even when Professor Wattel was assigning after-school homework, he did not forget to secretly step on the oil painter: "By the way, there is another point that is different from oil painting. The quality of the watercolor paints you use cannot be bad. What you use are students. Super paint?"

"We bought it according to the consumables list sent to us by the school at the beginning of each semester." Gu Weijing nodded.

"Change it. Change it to something more expensive. It doesn't matter the brand. Schminck, Faber-Castell, Winsor & Newton, Holbein are all fine, but if you want to buy professional grade, or master grade or above, you can't save money." Sketch. The professor reminded.

"I still have two boxes of unopened watercolors here. You can take them back if you need them."

Studying as an art student is quite expensive.

For example, the most common solid watercolors from Shi Mingke and ordinary watercolor paints used by students only cost a few dollars per box.

A small box of master-level paints basically costs more than 100 dollars, which is already more than the entire monthly income of ordinary families around Yangon.

Wattle remembered that Gu Weijing's family situation was average, so he kindly reminded him.

"It doesn't matter. I have it at home. Is it so important to practice painting?"

Gu Weijing shook his head politely and rejected the teacher's kindness.

He was past the time when he needed to worry about the cost of paint.

Frankly, from a money perspective. Ignoring those young masters from European campuses, there should be no students in the history of Dulwich College Yangon who are richer than him.

"Important, very important."

"The main difference in the drying speed of oil paints. The formulas of different grades of watercolor pigments are completely different. Amateur grade pigments will add fillers and organic pigments, which will reduce the vividness of the color. This requires basic familiarity with the brushwork. There won’t be any big problems when doing it, but it’s not necessary for serious creation.”

"More importantly, it will affect the artist's control over the paint when mixing colors."

"Repeated overlapping of two colors in professional-grade watercolors may turn into a deep dark yellow, giving people a feeling of high temperature. However, in student-grade or children's watercolor sets, mixing two pigments with the same name may turn into brown. Red. When practicing watercolor, you can’t skimp on supplies.”

Wattel touched his chin.

"I'll give you a piece of advice. To a painter, paints and brushes are like a hockey player and his bat, or a tennis player and his racket. You have to take care of your own stuff at all times, and don't give others a chance to make a fuss."

"Even in the days when I was in school, there were many rumors that some people were jealous and secretly replaced the solid watercolors in their classmates' sketch boxes before the summer art exam..."

He casually lamented the dark rumors he had heard when he was a student, then opened a small drawer next to the workbench, took out a dozen colorful cardboards, stapled together, and handed them to Gu Weijing.

"By the way, this is for you too."

"This is a color brightness chart. The colors on each cardboard are divided into eight stages from light to dark. For example, take gray and white as an example. 8 is the darkest, representing a deep iron gray, and the number is Arabian Number 1 is the brightest color palette and is almost pure white.”

"The watercolor color you just adjusted to paint on the bridge. The brightness is around 2 on the scale."

"When you go back to practice, try to slowly add water to each paint, from light to dark, and try to bring out the eight brightness levels with clear boundaries. Try to match the brightness and gloss of these cards."

“When you keep these cards in mind, you will know exactly what paint you want every time before you pick up the pen.”

Wattel chuckled twice and said, "Gu, do you know what is the biggest advantage of grasping the brightness of the paint accurately?"

“A sharper eye for color?”

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

"No, it's easy to make money."

The sketching professor blinked mysteriously at the student in front of him.

"Uh...you're talking about monochrome watercolor painting?" Gu Weijing probably guessed what Mr. Watter meant.

The school classification of watercolor painting is not as complicated as oil painting.

Art masters such as Picasso and Dali occasionally created some watercolor works in their lifetimes.

But overall, within the category of specialized watercolor painters, there are very few paintings that are too abstract.

From the moment this technique was born, it has been pursuing the ultimate realistic ability all the time.

Just like Impressionism is divided into Pre-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the so-called Neo-Impressionism.

Also realistic.

The realistic methods most pursued by market investors in different periods vary from hot to hot.

The most outstanding representatives of the watercolor style before the 19th century were definitely Turner and Redout, represented by academic painters influenced by Romanticism.

After the end of World War I.

The center of gravity of the Western art market has begun to shift from the traditional European continent to North America.

Those watercolor painters who were sought after by the market became neorealist style painters influenced by the Hudson River Landscape School, represented by Andrew Wyeth, Frank Weber, etc.

Their creations directly influenced the creation of "photorealism", a restoration of scenery depicted in watercolors, and the birth of a watercolor style that reached the point of being picky.

The United States is also hailed as the new watercolor kingdom by the art world.

The king's flag changes at the head of the city.

In the past fifty years, the artistic style of watercolor has begun to shift from Europe and America to Asia.

Just like many pioneer photographers nowadays, they gave up advanced SLRs and color photography, and started playing with antique large-format cameras, daguerreotype cameras, and black-and-white cameras.

The development of watercolor also feels a bit retro.

After "realism" has been developed to the extreme by painters, artists began to make fuss about paint.

They no longer pursue bright picture effects. Many galleries and curators like to get some monochromatic, hazy watercolor works with simple colors but distinctive personality.

This is also a "success formula" that makes it easier for ordinary small painters to make money and become famous.

"With this skill, a kind of pigment can be transformed into various colors in the artist's mind. For example, there are some of the most popular painters in the watercolor market. Whether it is Naomi Tydeman, the 13 Turner Prize winner who paints black and white landscapes, , or several watercolor painters in Asian cities who were influenced by the Korean Dansaekhwa School. They all have a good grasp of the brightness of paint."

Wattle nodded and said a little regretfully.

"If I could go through my student days again, I would probably work harder on my ability to master paint colors than on my painting skills. This might have helped me get signed to a good gallery back then. Best chance."

"Playing with paint and playing with techniques may be the same thing at heart. But maybe the latter requires too much talent, and I...may not have such talent."

"Gu, you are the most amazing student I have ever taught. Maybe only people like you are born for painting. I hope you can go further than me."

Gu Weijing heard the literary sadness in the sketch teacher's tone.

In that kind of sadness, there is regret that cannot be hidden. It's like when you were in school and passed by a beautiful rich girl in front of the studio porch. You smiled at her and she smiled at you, but you knew in your heart that you were destined to regret that she was never destined to meet her.

Gu Weijing followed Teacher Watter's gaze and looked toward the wall, where three dark wooden picture frames hung.

It's not the blond Germanic girl, Professor Wattel's deep regret and Bai Yueguang.

Standard landscape painting.

Noon.

When he just walked into the suite in this office, he noticed the paintings on the wall.

It's hard not to notice such a striking work.

Different from the watercolor and sketch works hanging in the office outside, all the large and small picture frames in the studio are watercolor paintings on the same theme.

The content is the photo of Museum Island in Berlin that I visited on the workbench.

This theme is repeated in every frame. What makes Gu Weijing feel most strange is that compared with other large and small Museum Island landscape paintings.

There were only three paintings hung on the wall facing the workbench by Professor Wattel most solemnly.

In these three paintings, the paint in the details seems to have faded and is too light.

Do not,

Looking at the details of the overpainting of the scenery, it should be said that these three paintings are actually not finished.

For some unknown reason, the carving, which lacked the last few layers of detail, was put into the frame by Vattel.

"I would like to ask, sir, these three works are not completed yet, are they?"

"Yes, yes, this is a ticket to the palace of artists. Unfortunately, I have spent ten years and still don't have the ability to walk to that shining golden door."

(End of this chapter)