Almighty painter

Chapter 437 Every second makes a fortune

Gu Weijing was lost in thought for a moment before he remembered.

When he was deep in thought.

The skill time given by the system is still passing by minute by minute.

Gu Weijing immediately opened the panel and paused his active skills.

The skill time in the real world remarks column has changed to [916 seconds/1000 seconds].

He painted the whole cloud too quickly.

At best, it only took about 10 seconds. The remaining minute or so was spent in Gu Weijing's shocked taste.

"This skill is really good, but the time allocated is a bit short."

Gu Weijing felt a little distressed for a moment.

Menzel's basic painting techniques can be used for half an hour every day.

Can hear half of it.

How fast can a delicate watercolor painting be?

Legend has it that Andrew Wyeth, the "Master of Nostalgia" who was awarded the Medal of Honor by three consecutive U.S. presidents, sketched with watercolors in the fields. At his peak, he could complete a watercolor exercise with an excellent scenery in an average of 35 minutes.

I paint an oil painting every day, and it’s not surprising that I can paint it slowly for a month.

The key is time.

Don’t think this requirement is simple.

1000 seconds may not necessarily mean you can really draw well.

He mentioned in the media interview that every painting is very energy-consuming. Sometimes it takes a whole quarter to polish a painting.

That's the kind of thing to say.

The admission requirements for Dongxia Art Examination, AP in North America, and Tama Art University in Japan are all very different.

The practice time given by the system every day is still somewhat shabby for watercolor painting.

Art students do not require details, facial contours, or aesthetic expression. They only require capturing the main features of characters such as thick lips, high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, etc.

Switch to watercolors.

Like Vattel, he prefers photographic formalism and loves to paint European cityscapes. Whenever the Dulwich sketch teacher mentioned it during chat, his idol would come up - Charles Villeneuve, the top French watercolor painter. He is the kind of person who works slowly and meticulously. typical.

The length is not too large, and it should be enough for generals and generals to draw sparks from their fingertips.

Oil paintings can be left in the studio for dozens of days or a hundred days without any problems.

1000 seconds, if all is used for sketching.

Gu Weijing is one of them who can do it. He has relatively good talent and works hard enough in painting. It is still possible to reach the overall average level of outstanding students.

Gu Weijing secretly felt that the interview should be a little watery, probably a gimmick to control the market supply.

This type of test-taking sketch during school is strictly required to be controlled within 15 minutes.

It’s just that the line drawing needs to be more precise and delicate.

And try to combine these things on paper as much as possible, so that it looks like a person.

Among the more serious painting methods commonly used by Western painters, watercolor is already the fastest and is far more convenient than oil painting.

The system claims that this [real skill] is an all-round superior coverage of the old skills, but its usage time has been reduced by almost half.

And the painting is slow.

In previous similar exams, he would try to leave himself an overall margin of one or two minutes.

Not counting the delicate expression of the hair, the time just for painting the facial features will probably be strictly controlled within 100 seconds.

In some populous provinces of Eastern Xia, there are about 50,000 art candidates in each session.

Take the art exam as an example.

There are only about 250 candidates who can complete this requirement on time every year, with a total score of 84 points in the three subjects of sketching, and an average of 2000 points or more in each subject.

It is not a simple expression of color contrast with colored pencils, but the kind of watercolor painting that truly brings out the strengths and delicate techniques of watercolor.

He is not the fastest, but he is already a prolific master of the tentacle monster type that people are talking about.

100 seconds is a joke.

Most masters only sell five or six pictures through galleries throughout the year.

Only 4% of students can do it.

All art universities have such entrance examination requirements.

If watercolors are not handled and maintained carefully, the underlying color will crack halfway through the painting after being left on the workbench for a month.

This is out of the question.

Even more convenient than acrylic.

However, this "fast" refers to serious painting methods, which often take two to three days, two to three weeks, or two to three months.

However, watercolor is actually a very delicate paint on paper, like an extremely thin porcelain tea cup. It is fragile, difficult to take care of, and not as strong as oil paint in the form of paste.

Say.

How to make watercolor paper thicker and heavier? It is essentially paper, not cloth. You have to apply water layer by layer every day. No matter how expensive the paper is, you can't stand it.

What the master is talking about is probably the time it takes to carefully conceive, revise the draft several times, try out many painting techniques, and finally put it on display in the gallery.

Rather than actually drawing on a piece of paper at a time.

It is impossible to paint for seventy or eighty days.

It is common for a larger watercolor painting to take seven or eight hours of continuous painting.

It doesn't necessarily take less time than oil painting done with impasto.

Andrew Wyeth's watercolor works, which last for tens of minutes, are mostly in 16-karat watercolor exercise books.

That is, it is smaller than A4 paper.

It is a kind of painting practice and material accumulation that comes at your fingertips.

It is not suitable for actual competitions or exhibitions.

Just think of the Mona Lisa.

In fact, "Mona Lisa" is a relatively mini work, only half a meter wide.

Every year, the Louvre receives a lot of crazy complaints from tourists because the size of the Mona Lisa is so small.

Take the safe distance required by the Louvre and the bulletproof glass.

It was impossible to look very carefully at all.

I queued for two hours in front of a special exhibition hall, then stood in front of a small picture frame for three seconds, and then was squeezed out by the confused tourists behind me.

But the Mona Lisa is small.

The portrait that Leonardo da Vinci sold to Mrs. Florence was six or seven times larger than the size of a 16-karat watercolor exercise book.

Art exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale are relatively tolerant and have an international style.

In principle, they do not have many restrictions on the minimum size of submitted works.

If the exhibitors have absolute confidence in themselves, or have absolute confidence in the visual conditions of the audience and judges.

You can make a short and compact "Nuclear Boat Story" about the size of a fingernail as a sculpture creation, and submit it to the organizing committee.

Anyway, whether you are allowed to submit or not is one thing.

Whether it can be exhibited and whether it can win awards is another matter.

Objectively speaking, large-sized works always have advantages over small-sized works.

People have a strange genetic instinct to compare sizes in all kinds of situations. Modern Eastern and Western painters are all painting larger and larger paintings, which is the mainstream trend in the development of world art trends.

Since ancient times, Chinese paintings have been priced based on square feet, and the larger they are, the more valuable they are.

The most classic example in the field of auctions.

When Monet's "Water Lilies" series was promoted to wealthy collectors, the tone, style, and painting time were not prioritized so high, and buyers did not understand it.

Just a simple and crude hard standard that is universally accepted——

"Uncle, the larger the size, the higher the price, and the better the painting. How about adding another 1000 million?"

This is not all a trick to trick people into paying.

Painting both large and small has its own difficulties.

Anyway, the larger the painting, the harder it will be for the overall temperament of the painting to be smooth and consistent.

The longer it takes to paint, the more likely things will go wrong.

There was once a master from Dongxia who ranked at the top of the Hurun Artist Rich List. His exquisite large-scale realistic oil painting worth six million US dollars took a long time to paint. When it was about to be completed, it was not noticed by the students in the studio. A big sneaker foot stepped on it.

You can paint a big picture without making big mistakes.

There is hard work without credit.

Both the judges and the audience will be more or less inclined to give some impression points.

Naturally, you can’t go too far.

Many biennales are worried that some painters will want to become famous and take advantage of this loophole. They do not have a minimum size requirement for submitted works, but instead have an upper limit requirement.

Do you want to submit a super large painting that exceeds 3 meters by 4 meters?

Excuse me.

It’s not that you won’t be allowed to vote. You must first contact the organizing committee individually to obtain consent and permission.

For example, at the Singapore Biennale and the Yokohama Triennial Art Exhibition, the painting category requires a length and width of more than 40CM*40CM at the beginning.

This is the hard bottom line for a lot of public exhibitions.

Below this size, even 16×20 inches, this kind of small-size oil painting is very common for art students. I’m sorry, but for the first time, people don’t want it at all.

And medium size watercolor.

In case.

If everything goes smoothly, it is more appropriate to allow one and a half to two hours to finish the painting in one go.

Emphasis on finishing the painting in one go.

It is also because watercolor and ink freehand painting are representative painting methods in the field of Eastern and Western painting respectively, using water as the medium.

The connotations, philosophical thoughts and principles of perspective they each express are completely different.

But there are also some slight similarities in many underlying techniques that lead to the same goal through different paths.

Excellent watercolors are very particular about being done in one go.

A more metaphysical explanation is that if you paint for a while in the east and west for a while, your energy and spirit will be completely broken, like an earthworm that has been chopped into pieces and cannot penetrate smoothly.

The scattered earthworms will not survive.

Paintings whose vitality and spirit have been chopped to pieces, and which have lost their vitality and agility, can only fall into the inferior category.

A more straightforward explanation is that it is determined by the characteristics of water-soluble pigments. In addition to the fact that watercolor colors are difficult to maintain and old paintings are prone to cracking when dry or wet.

Each smear of paint is unique. Different humidity on the paper, different paint combinations and brush strokes will form unique brush marks.

There is no such thing as "complete in one go" among Western painters.

There is a similar technical term in Dewei's teaching materials called "Magic Timing".

The literal translation is called the magic timing, which means the timing when the paper surface is wet enough after it first touches the water, but is not dry enough to become flat (reflective when exposed to direct sunlight).

This is the perfect moment for paint to work its magic.

In many works, the magical timing only occurs once.

If a sea of ​​clouds is only half dyed, and it dries overnight, and then you continue to paint the rest... well, to be fair, it's not that mysterious.

To be honest, as long as your drawing skills are good enough and reach a 90-point similarity, it is not difficult to make it almost invisible to ordinary viewers.

95, 96, 97 points.

It can be done.

As for whether the humidity of the paper and the feeling of the paint can be perfectly integrated into one, without any feeling of stagnation.

That's hard to tell.

Most painters actually still hope to achieve 100% in their paintings.

Gu Weijing used the remaining ink left by the previous blending to coat the pages with a layer of reflective hazy particles, a fluffy and hazy effect.

It also requires the overall coherence of the picture.

Clouds are just a simple example. The surface of the sea of ​​clouds, the bottom of the sky, the sky and buildings, the ripples on the water, the silhouettes between the ripples... all generally follow the same principle.

Realistic paintings are called frozen time.

Two feet cannot step into the same river.

Since you want to solidify and condense an entire area of ​​the world into your work in one moment, you'd better finish the painting in one go and don't let yourself get out of the state of mind at the very beginning.

This only affects the overall temperament of the work.

There are some special brushstrokes of wet painting methods, such as spot-dipping to absorb color, salt-sprinkling method, and using salt grains to create a unique salt flower texture while controlling a certain paint humidity... These are simply physical conditions that limit you. It is best to do it one at a time. The sex painting is finished.

Salt, sponge, tape, whitewash, liquid white night, toothbrush, scissors, painting knife, etc.

Some watercolor painting techniques are actually quite complicated in order to create a unique brushstroke texture.

Professor Wattel described it as "artistic alchemy". As a young alchemist, Gu Weijing found it difficult to boil the "magic potion" bubbling with green bubbles in the stove halfway, then come back and take a nap, waiting for the cooling time to be refreshed. , stretched again, yawned and lit the fire again.

That would no longer be artistic alchemy.

A fastidious chef can make a big bone soup, but others don't make it this way.

"Every second counts."

Gu Weijing stared at the numbers on the panel and sighed softly.

The countdown on the system panel is not numbers, but jingling money.

1000 seconds is not enough time.

The only good news is that.

The system also seems to know that this time can be used for watercolor practice, but it is too embarrassing to use it for serious creation.

Therefore, the hard limit of only 24 minutes in every 30 hours has been lifted. If Gu Weijing is wealthy enough, he can redeem it himself.

Use it for as long as you want.

But when I think about the skill exchange ratio of the black heart system.

Considering Gu Weijing's indifference towards money, his liver trembled for a while as usual.

The system has a 1:1 exchange ratio for experience points and skill exchange time.

One second is ten dollars, one minute is six hundred dollars, one hour is thirty-six thousand dollars, one day is one million dollars, and one year is $3.2 million.

This speed of earning money has successfully surpassed Ronaldo's earning speed at his peak.

This calculation is a bit exaggerated.

But even if Gu Weijing only used two extra hours to paint a perfect watercolor realistic painting from drafting to completion, US$72,000 had already been burned.

The time to paint watercolor is a fraction of that of oil painting, and the price is also much lower than that of oil painting.

(End of this chapter)