Almighty painter

Chapter 534 Technique Upgrade

Ms. Anya said that she has summarized the key points of finger painting creation over the years.

The most important suggestion may also be the most simple one:

Use gloves.

Historically, a large number of traditional painters used their fingers to shape color tones, including when Katsuko had an idea and adjusted "Good Luck Orphanage Under the Sun" for him by directly touching the paint and canvas with his fingers.

If you regard this as an auxiliary creative method that will be used occasionally.

There is no harm in doing so.

The direct contact between the skin and the painting allows one to clearly feel the flow of paint on the fingertips.

It also has the most intuitive and clear control over thickness.

The biggest advantage of finger painting is the subtle "reaction" between it and the paint.

When a painter uses his fingers to create, color not only exists on the canvas as a visual phenomenon, but also exists on your skin as a tactile perception.

Added a layer of fabric spacer.

Many painters would find this uncomfortable.

There is a kind of shortcoming of missing something and seeing flowers in the fog.

However, Anya's experience as an expert in finger painting told Gu Weijing that if a painter wants to treat the skill of finger painting with a serious and serious attitude - then at the beginning of practice, he must force himself to develop the skill of wearing finger paint. The habit of wearing gloves is a matter of great benefit and harm.

The human body is very adaptable.

If you want to hone the art of finger shaping to a high level, a lot of practice is a necessary process.

This kind of indirect contact with color often feels unaccustomed to you at first.

After painting dozens or hundreds of times, I gradually got used to the feeling of the paint blending under my gloves.

Different gloves are like different brushes, bringing out different textures.

If you can't handle the Gloves, then you only have the "Skin" brush, which is more subtle.

on the contrary.

If you work hard and practice more.

Then you can use plastic gloves or silk gloves to simulate the texture of skin, use fabric gloves to create a thin rubbing effect of cloth fibers, and use leather gloves to create a smooth metallic transition like a knife sliding across...

As long as your imagination is rich enough, your fingers are a treasure trove of paintbrushes you can carry with you.

You can create as many different brush effects as there are types of gloves in the world.

When Anya first started finger painting as a student, she most often used silk gloves and plastic transparent gloves for barbecues.

Because these two types of gloves are the thinnest and most feelless.

After a little adaptation, the effect of painting is almost the same as that of painting directly on the skin with your fingers.

Later, as her skills improved, she began to try a variety of gloves.

Anya has tried using the finger smearing method on almost all types of gloves that Gu Weijing can think of.

The female painter’s favorite is a black PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) glove produced by Honeywell. This glove was originally widely used in chemical and biological laboratories in Canada.

It sounds like it has nothing to do with the work of a painter.

But here's the magic.

The artist lady discovered by chance that the reason why the laboratory uses this kind of gloves is because PVA is very strong and can prevent almost all common organic chemicals, aliphatic, aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, fluorocarbons and Penetration of most ketones.

Used to apply paint, it is like duck down that floats on the surface of the water but does not stick to water.

The color doesn't bleed or stick to your fingers at all, and it creates a very clean texture.

The small anti-slip particles on the fingertips will not make the application effect too flat and boring.

After she turned 30 and opened her own gallery in recent years, her ideas changed again.

Instead, Anya began to abandon her obsession with types of gloves.

She feels that there is no best glove, only the most suitable texture.

even.

If you have done hundreds or thousands of finger paintings, large and small, and have touched the paint tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of times.

Then even the thickness of the glove doesn't matter.

Every flow of color and every trace of texture exists in your heart.

The so-called touch.

It can be felt with the whole body and realized with the breath, instead of being limited to the direct feedback of the tactile nerves under the skin of the fingers, which is about the size of a fingernail.

For her, the only thing that really matters is the painting itself.

This statement may seem mysterious to others.

But Gu Weijing, who has legendary knife-painting skills, actually understands what the female artist means.

now.

Anya said that the most commonly used gloves in her toolbox have become barbecue gloves again.

These are not the plastic gloves used for barbecues, but the thick rubber insulated gloves often used when carrying baking sheets in the oven.

It looks bulky, but it has a lot of texture on the surface, which can cover almost all the brushstroke effects that female painters want to express on the canvas.

Whether it is mineral-based dry paint or styrene-based or methacrylic-based wet paint, it can handle it very well.

More importantly.

Zaohe Space Gallery regularly collaborates with government departments and some non-profit organizations on art charity projects.

Anya often goes to the community to hold creative classes and teaches painting to residents who have nothing to do during the day. Develop a hobby for art.

The students participating in the creative class are not professional painters, and most of them are housewives.

Using oven mitts to create works will make them feel more intimate and understand that artists are not a group of people who are disconnected from citizen life and ignorant of the fireworks of the world.

When Gu Weijing heard Anya talk about his creative career, he was greatly shocked. In the sword tomb, classmate Yang Guo saw the senior master Dugu Qiufeng, changing from the indestructible famous sword to the soft crape myrtle sword, and then Mingwu and Xinchi were fascinated by it when it was replaced by a large and ingenious dark iron heavy sword, and finally by an ordinary wooden sword.

of course.

There is another very practical and direct reason why the female artist repeatedly told Gu Weijing to wear gloves.

It has nothing to do with art, but everything to do with life.

Pigments - these things are toxic, and the toxicity is not low.

Although some painting equipment factories have begun to market the concept of "environmental protection pigments" or "natural pigments", in fact, it is almost inevitable that colors contain heavy metals or toxic chemicals.

Especially some special colors.

It’s just a question of how much harmful substances there are.

Wearing gloves can allow the human body to adapt through repeated practice.

No matter how much you practice, there is something like skin cancer.

It is very difficult for you to adapt to it.

Talking about toxicity aside from the dosage is just being a hooligan. It doesn't matter to ordinary painters who occasionally use their fingers to adjust the tone. But if you want to become a master in the field of finger painting, or you want to polish your finger smearing method to an extremely high level.

Paint during the day, paint at night, paint every day, paint every month.

So Kuang Kuang Kuang is so good at painting hard.

Not to mention skin cancer, at least allergies are something that is quite difficult to avoid.

After realizing this problem. After getting caught every time he licked his pen and Ms. Sakai stuffing a sour lollipop into his mouth, Xiao Gu decided to develop good creative habits.

He immediately bought 50 plastic gloves and half a dozen silk gloves online.

Obediently, I put on my gloves during practice.

"Use light wiping to control the transition of soft edges, and use your fingertips to mix light pigments up and down... From beginning to end, try your best to keep the tones applied by your fingers in the painting with an ethereal and elegant temperament..."

Gu Weijing recalled what the female artist said, and carefully softened the edges of the magnolia petals with his fingers, blending the last tiny uneven edge marks scraped by the oil painting knife with the original colors painted by Katsuko Sakai around them. One body.

Oil painting knife to control underlying color.

Use the finger smudge method to create a pretty aura of magnolia petals.

Put the two together, twist and soak, just like milk and chocolate sandwich cookies, they are a natural match.

Theoretically speaking.

When you are confident enough in both of your painting skills, you can simply skip the intermediate step of using a brush.

The shaping of flowers and leaves can be accomplished entirely with finger painting techniques.

The flowers and leaves drawn in this way are the most natural flowers and leaves.

Gu Weijing originally planned this.

Anyway, it’s just a practice piece, why don’t you give it a try? Ah Wang doesn’t like to take a bath.

But Katsuko trusts him so much.

Gu Weijing did not want to let down his girlfriend's feelings. He would rather give up the bet and paint the best possible picture.

He has only been exposed to finger painting for a short time, and he is far from being proficient in using a paintbrush.

Not to mention compared to the legendary skills that stand at the pinnacle of artists.

In case.

Gu Weijing retreats and seeks the next best thing.

For the overall petal shaping, he still chose to use L.6 oil painting techniques.

Finger painting is only responsible for the final transition finishing work.

During this practice, Gu Weijing's fingertips were still a little raw, but compared to the previous fusion painting, the free-spirited application that was completely dominated by his own feelings became much more standardized and methodical.

When he draws sword paintings, he is free and easy, which means that his skills have reached the extreme.

There are no more rules of the past in the world. He is the only high mountain and the only law, the kind of trust that travels around the world.

When he used to paint with his fingers, he had no control over the horse. It was like a fool riding a crazy horse. He had no idea how to draw, and he was running around like a headless fly.

They all sound similar.

In fact, there is a huge difference between heaven and earth.

If you want freedom, learn the rules first.

If you want to be freehand, you must first be realistic.

If you want to be helpless, you must first have a method.

With the guidance of an expert behind his back, Gu Weijing was finally sure that he was on the right path for finger painting this time.

The texture that Gu Weijing drew now is at least different from the look of a child's doodles.

How to apply it, how to apply it.

How could the magnolia flowers fall in the light mist, and how could the branches and leaves on the ground, where Awang's big fat ass was sitting, express that kind of bending elasticity.

After talking to Anya, he already had his own ideas.

The path is clear.

The speed of painting also speeds up.

When Gu Weijing used the pad of his index finger to gently draw petals on a piece of magnolia, he stroked a trace of red.

Sakai Katsuko couldn't help but point her toes and nuzzle and kiss him on the face like a kitten.

"No need to wait, old woman, I want to kiss you now."

at the same time.

Gu Weijing also happened to hear a sound in his ear indicating that his technique had been upgraded at this moment.

"Ding, congratulations, your miscellaneous painting technique "Finger Smearing Method" has been upgraded from "Basic" to "Normal"."

Hearing the sound, he opened the panel and took a closer look.

There are still five main techniques on the main technique panel: sketching, oil painting, Chinese painting, watercolor, and printmaking, plus a legendary painting knife technique.

According to the system's evaluation criteria.

Only when a miscellaneous technique reaches the "excellent" level or above, it will be classified as an independent painting technique.

It’s not surprising that the system looked down upon “ordinary” level skills and simply ignored them.

It's up to the system to see whether he likes it or not. This is a real skill upgrade brought about by practicing on your own.

Gu Weijing himself was quite happy.

but.

The slight flaw is that Gu Weijing took a special look at his Baiyi tree.

"Whether you choose to water Baiyi Shu, this watering will cost 1200 free experience points. The probability of this watering to upgrade the finger smear method from "normal" to "legendary" level is "8.1%"."

The finger smear method has advanced to the "normal" level. The next time you spend free experience points to water water, the probability of being directly upgraded to the legendary level has only changed from the original 7.2% to 8.1%.

Only an increase of 0.9 percentage points was achieved, which was not as much as the success rate of watering as a friendly gift.

It's as if the proficiency required for the legendary finger smearing method is an ocean.

So the proficiency of entry-level techniques is a bowl of water, and the proficiency of ordinary-level techniques may be a bigger bowl for water, perhaps a washbasin.

But whether it is a big bowl or a face plate, placed in front of the real sea, his learning and growth these days are not worth mentioning.

It only deserves a 0.9 percentage point difference.

He also discovered that the watering of the Baiyi Tree became more and more expensive as the frequency increased. This watering would cost 200 more experience points than the first time.

Gu Weijing reminded himself not to be greedy.

He has only been practicing for a few days, while Ms. Anya has been practicing for thirty years, and may still be far from reaching the legendary level.

He can't expect to reach the sky directly in one step and soar like a rocket with a high success rate.

But Gu Weijing was still a little disappointed.

Because he happens to have about 10,000 points of free experience points on hand right now. This amount of experience points can directly fill his watercolor level to more than half of the second level of the profession.

Just considering that his highest priority task now is still the art exhibition.

Therefore, from a utilitarian point of view, Gu Weijing prefers to improve techniques that he can use immediately at art exhibitions.

If you practice slowly, it will take at least a long learning period, several months or even half a year, and maybe you can significantly increase your success rate.

It is very likely that it will be too late to catch up with the Biennale.

Choose to water now.

Even if the experience points consumed each time will increase to a certain extent, 10,000 experience points are enough to open six or seven awards.

Gu Weijing hopes to develop legendary skills right now.

(End of this chapter)