Almighty painter

Chapter 47 Girl's Mind

Gu Weijing sat on the bed.

The tip of his nose was lingering with the scent of sandalwood and sweet-scented osmanthus on the girl's body after taking a bath, and he almost forgot why he came, and it was Mona who spoke first.

"Gu Weijing, let's take a look at my newly drawn vacation homework. I'm going to put it in my portfolio and use it to apply to universities this year."

Mona carefully moved her easel from the balcony.

Their oil painting teacher requires everyone to complete an oil painting homework during the vacation, the subject matter is not limited.

Gu Weijing's model painting of a Mercedes-Benz car was finished when the panel was obtained.Ms. Mona's oil painting has now been almost completed and is in the process of finishing.

Judging from Gu Weijing's current perspective, adding one or two layers of paint would be a very good work.

What she painted was a self-portrait.

In the oil painting, she is wearing a blue skirt with fluttering corners, with the flowing Irrawaddy River and the setting sun behind her.

Mona stood at the drawing board, pointed to the picture frame next to her, and asked in a playful tone, "Am I pretty?"

Gu Weijing looked at the canvas of the oil painting and thought for a moment.

Berryman's character anatomy can be applied not only to sketches, but also to oil paintings. Even though his experience in oil painting techniques is not very high, it is still possible to give advice to Mona.

"clothing."

Gu Weijing said.

"What do you mean?"

"The figure appears to be clothed."

"So... otherwise?"

Mona folded her arms and said in an unhappy tone, "I can't draw a self-portrait with clothes on for vacation homework, am I crazy, or are you crazy?"

"Or...are you flirting with me?"

Mona tilted her head and looked at Gu Weijing with playful eyes: "After school starts, I want to ask Gu Lin, what did you do during the holidays, I haven't seen you for a month, and you learned bad things so quickly."

"No, no, you misunderstood me..."

Gu Weijing realized the meaning of the other party, his ears turned red all of a sudden, and he waved his hands: "I don't mean anything else, I'm just talking about oil painting."

"Well... I'd like to see what you think of my portrait painting. I remind you in advance that because I will apply for the Academy of Fine Arts this year, my father hired a private tutor for me during the winter vacation. This painting was drawn under his guidance Yes, if you can't tell why..."

Mona looked at Gu Wei's frantic look, and thought it was a bit amusing.

She knew that the other person was an introvert, and she wanted to tease him.

"...I want you to look good."

She licked the corners of her mouth and made a vicious grimace.

Miss Mona didn't look vicious, but she was a bit playful.

"Why do I say that the problem with the characters is the clothes?"

Gu Weijing tapped the semi-finished oil painting with his fingers, and his fingertips followed the curves of Mona's body.

The girl is a girl who loves to dress up, and she obviously put a lot of thought into the blue-toned dress she is wearing in the painting.

The silver buttons, the brown-red scarf, and the fluttering texture of the skirt all performed very well.

"I think that when drawing portraits, no matter what the subject matter is, from comics to oil paintings or gouache or prints, there is always only one core focus—the characters."

"Your clothes are beautifully painted, so beautiful that they are a bit overwhelming."

"When drawing portraits of people in clothes, it is especially important to pay attention to the portraits of special figures such as kings and generals. The most important point is that the clothes are only coverings on the body. Therefore, all its folds are caused by the body inside. Determined by the muscle curve."

Gu Weijing recalled the anatomy experience he had obtained in his mind, and explained it very patiently.

"When carefully observing and drawing clothes, it is necessary to show the structure of the body inside it. Especially when drawing girls wearing skirts, it is necessary to show the torso and limbs of the characters as much as possible."

"Do you remember the oil painting 'My Daughter Georgia'?"

Gu Weijing gave an example of them studying with a professor in an oil painting appreciation class.

"My Daughter Georgia" is a classic portrait created by the painter Naomi Alexander for her daughter, which is now in the collection of the Ludwig Museum in Germany.

In class, the teacher once focused on the use of brushes and techniques in this painting.

At that time, Gu Weijing couldn't understand many of them.

Now that he has acquired Berryman's anatomical skills and the portrait in the oil painting in his memory, a lot of things can be understood at once.

"What happened to the painting 'My Daughter Georgia'?"

Mona asked.

"In that painting, the clothes are treated in a simple and relatively elongated form, leading the viewer's eyes upwards to the faces of the characters."

"Before this, the painter has shown enough muscular lines and rich expressions on the face to attract the attention of the audience."

Gu Weijing used his fingers to simply show the folds in the painting on the bed sheet.

"The outline and folds of the blue skirt in the picture have the greatest effect on making the audience feel that it is very comfortable. At the same time, it also outlines the outline of the figure's waist, hips and knees."

"Remember what the teacher said? In order to pursue a sufficiently smooth touch of the clothes and reduce the audience's distraction from the body lines, even the painting itself was painted on a wooden board instead of a common canvas."

At that time, Gu Weijing also had doubts about the substrate Naomi Alexander chose. For ordinary canvases, wooden boards are neither convenient for transportation nor storage, and the adhesion of oil paint is not good.

Thinking about it now, everything is to highlight the characters.

"This self-portrait you painted is not only the color of the clothes is too bright. There are also too many decorations, all kinds of skirt laces and buttons under the brush show that the clothes seem to have a life of their own. This is not a good thing—"

Gu Weijing's fingers point to the girl's limbs, head and neck in the oil painting frame.

"You see, this will cause the head and hands not covered by the clothes, and the feet and the body cannot be naturally connected together, as if they were made of doll building blocks."

He concluded by looking at Mona one last time.

"It's kind of like that."

Mona sniffled.

She smiled and said, "If my tutor hadn't checked the line draft and thought there was no problem with this painting, I would have been blinded by you."

As the main work of her portfolio, before Mona painted this oil painting, her father hired a senior as her private teacher to guide her in the line draft.

The other party is a student of the Royal Academy of Art in England. To be admitted to the Royal Academy of Art in England, an old art academy ranked among the top [-] in the world, the painting skills must be very good.

Since the seniors thought there was nothing wrong with the painting, Mona didn't take Gu Weijing's words to heart.

She wasn't serious in the first place, she was just playing around.

"Your senior..."

Gu Weijing opened his mouth, wanting to say something else.

"Okay, okay, for the sake of talking so much, even if you pass the test. You are only 17 years old this year, even if you make a mistake, I won't laugh at you."

"Teach you to be good. When a girl asks you if your portrait looks good in the future, she is not asking for your opinion, but just asking for your praise."

With a wave of her hand, Mona moved the easel back to the balcony.

"You haven't told me what you are looking for me this time?"

　I would like to ask the audience one thing.

　　I saw some people in the comment area feedback that they don’t like to read daily life, but only like to read paintings, but the emotional line in the design of this book is also a very important part.

　　Of course, I always think that the author's self-cultivation is that he is the boss when he comes out to mess with the audience.

　　If many people don't like to watch this kind of plot, I will also consider it in the follow-up plot as appropriate. If you are willing to express your opinion, you can tell me.

　　grateful!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)