Almighty painter

Chapter 619 Mission Completed (Part )

Gu Weijing sat next to Koko.

He could see every stroke of Koko's painting board, as well as her eyebrows, her eyes, her facial features, her hair...

On the drawing board.

Outside the drawing board.

Every colored line and every arc are clearly visible around him.

The petals from the branches fell into Gu Weijing's heart.

A breeze with the scent of spring fluttered in the air.

……

"Take a look, have you improved? The first time I painted, the paint turned out strange. Ms. Sakai said that the transition between the soft and hard edges of the brushstrokes was not done right, which plays a role in guiding the viewer's vision. The direction of the face and the turn of the eyes were not handled well. One shoulder is higher than the other, so it looks stupid."

Koko poked Gu Weijing's arm with the handle of her watercolor brush.

"Now you finally look a bit like me! Congratulations—"

Practice makes perfect.

Koko is very good at drawing.

After practicing many times, she finished painting the background of the 8K drawing paper in less than thirty minutes or forty minutes.

"——We can deal with the fat cat in the painting later. Now, I can deal with the fat cat next to me. When I was holding it just now, I noticed that some of the hair behind its ears was greasy and tangled! It must have been from climbing trees. It's really not clean."

Koko put the drawing board on her lap onto a shelf beside her.

You have to wait for the sunlight to dry the watercolor paint before you can clean the white space liquid on it.

Then she stretched out her hand and licked her lips at Awang, who was lying on the ground basking in the sun by the tree.

Awang is a little dirty cat.

Every time Gu Weijing wanted to clean it, he would follow the interpretation on the "Pet Mind Reading" knowledge card.

Gu Weijing speculated.

Awang will go through all of this, first he will go crazy (Protect the emperor! There is an assassin, little Gu Zi is rebelling!) - to running away (Run, Awang, Run!) - to stress response (Take my cat punch!) - to suspicion (Can you take care of my beautiful fur? If you make it bald, you and old Gu Zi will be dragged off to be beheaded!) - and then from helplessness to enjoyment (Um, um, YES, OH, YES, massage is also arranged, Master Gu, don't be lazy!) It's a complete process.

It's always such a chaotic situation every time.

The tabby cat is difficult to deal with.

One to two to go.

Gu Weijing was too lazy to take care of the cat at home.

If Shengzi doesn't have time to give it a bath, Gu Weijing will let Awang be a dirty baby.

When Awang saw Koko take a handful of small metal teeth from the tool box next to him, he immediately stood up from the ground in unhappiness.

It stared at the combing tool in Koko's hand seriously for a moment.

He turned around and looked at the big tree behind him.

Then he turned his head and looked at the girl again.

It stretched out its front legs, twisted its big round belly vigorously, and struggled to roll on the ground.

If that feeling were replaced with human emotions, it would be like—

"I'll show you a cool cat roll. Are you shocked? If you are, please let me go, okay?"

Koko saw a fat cat that looked like a guinea pig, rolling on the ground in a cute way. Halfway through, it got stuck by its own round belly.

The cat had difficulty exerting force in this position and was almost unable to flip back like a turtle.

She giggled a little at the amusement.

"It's really not easy." Gu Weijing sighed as he looked at Awang, who had a hard life and had no choice but to perform for a living.

"Your Awang is really chubby. Many dancers have been pursuing the same nimble and light dance steps as a cat throughout their lives, saying that cats are the best and most mysterious dancers in the world. It would be impossible to be as fat as it is. I am more flexible than it when I do a somersault." Koko said.

Gu Weijing originally wanted to say that although Awang is fat.

Speaking from my heart.

In many situations in life, people are quite flexible.

Especially when it is necessary to bully cats and dogs on the banks of the Yangon River, beat up wild animals or smell food, it is definitely a nimble fat man.

However, he recalled it carefully again.

Remove the emotional factor.

He also thought that Miss Koko was right. Gu Weijing remembered a school dance when he was in eleventh grade.

The cheerleaders performed on stage.

Koko was doing cartwheels in a dance dress that was decorated with small sequins that reflected the lights.

This is Coco's reserved event for winning the title of prom queen.

She can do more than a dozen in a row.

From one side of the auditorium stage, she used her smooth thighs to cut through the crowd and flipped over to the other side.

Everyone on the stage looked at the scene with longing.

That feeling is not flirtatious or frivolous at all.

It seems like a magical and enchanting dream.

Many European schools, especially universities, have dance halls.

Dancing and clubbing are regular activities on campus, just like playing basketball.

In pursuit of British elegance, Dulwich High School's stage is also designed in a so-called "gentleman style".

Wooden floor.

The front of the auditorium is covered with a textile carpet decorated with prismatic mosaics.

The walls were hung with brown draperies and chandeliers shaped like oriental vases.

In this setting, the boys wore suits and the girls wore evening gowns with hems that almost dragged on the ground. Slow-tempo waltzes or minuets played on the speakers, and some ballroom dances such as waltzes were performed.

There is no contradiction at all.

But in a noisy, fast-paced, lively occasion like a Valentine's Day dance, with overhead spotlights spinning and changing like a kaleidoscope, it seems too alienating.

Koko perfectly controls both the passionate and elegant temperaments.

The beat of the drums suddenly stopped.

She was like Moses using his divine power to split the Red Sea in the Book of Exodus, separating the singing and dancing of the girls around her.

Her skin reflected the luster of silk brocade, and the light from the stage spotlights wandered across her thighs. The sequins and diamonds between her skirts turned the solid beam of light into scattered waves of smoke and water.

As she turned over the deep blue light, she was dyed with an ultramarine sheen.

As she turned over the light that seemed like eternal rose red, she turned into a blooming rose.

……

There is no soundtrack.

All one could hear was the rhythmic tapping of the girl's palms and soles as they rested on the wooden floor, like a series of tapping snare drums.

After completing the last cartwheel.

She did a ballet-like one-legged pose.

Extend your right arm forward freely.

Stand on one leg half-toe, bend the other leg backwards, the lights in other places are turned off at this moment, and all the spotlights are turned to shine on the dancer.

that moment.

Koko was reflected as if she were a burning, flowing light.

The whole place was silent for ten seconds, and then the whole audience burst into applause.

Gu Weijing recalled the scene at that time, and then looked at the fat cat rolling hard on the ground in front of him.

"Um--"

Gu Weijing decided not to insult the dancer or embarrass Awang at home, so he decided to change the topic.

"Let me see your painting."

He stood up and walked to the easel.

Koko's paint was originally applied lightly, and she used the dry painting method.

The sun is bright in Yangon at noon.

During the few minutes they were chatting and playing with the cat, the paint on the surface had begun to dry.

Gu Weijing brought the drawing board over.

"You have finished the overall painting. Let me draw the cat at the end," he requested.

"Meow? You want to draw it."

"Meow meow?"

"That cat. Ms. Sakai told me that an artist should have feelings for what he creates, be aware of it, and believe that it represents 'something', as the Impressionists said. She taught me a trick."

"The fastest way to be aware of the scenery on the paper, to make it alive, to feel the weight of the brushstrokes..." Koko stuck out her tongue, "...is to name the most important scenery in your painting. She said that in Eastern philosophy, it is believed that a person's name can carry his soul and destiny."

"Names are not limited to people. A horse, a cat, a dog, a swallow flying outside the window. Trees, flowers, mountains, rivers, lakes, the sun, moon, stars, and even a passing telephone pole in a landscape painting. When the painter gives them names, they have a certain connection with them. Mr. Sakai said that in this way, the painter can observe their existence in his heart very intuitively, rather than just lifeless things under the brush."

Koko explained.

"Meow meow - the cat in my arms is called meow meow."

It turns out that Miss Koko named the cat on the drawing paper Meow Meow.

That's really her style.

Gu Weijing studied the outline of the cat painted with white-out liquid on the drawing paper for a moment and nodded, "Yes, this time, let me draw the meow meow and see if I can draw it well."

Koko's brows furrowed slightly.

She didn't want to question Gu Weijing's painting ability.

Whether it is Miss Sakai or Gu Weijing, they both draw very well.

In terms of technique, he is definitely much better than her.

only--

"You named her, and she has a connection with you."

The one in the painting's arms is her cat.

As Koko painted the cat in her arms again and again, she tried her best to incorporate her emotions into her brush and constantly tried to communicate with the cat on the paper with the brush.

The cat gradually became hers.

Came alive in her heart.

This is a cat with the artist's own mark, a cat that belongs to the artist alone.

This has nothing to do with whether the creator is a novice painter or a skilled master.

Good paintings and bad paintings.

Some are ugly, some are beautiful.

Those are all Koko's own cats.

Just like Bastof and Macavity painted by Gu Weijing, they are the Fatty Cat and the Mysterious Cat who live in his heart.

In the past month of practice.

Ms. Katsuko Sakai constantly gave her guidance and taught her some tips on drawing animals. Like Gu Weijing, Katsuko also drew some cat samples for her.

Seriously.

Those cats are painted very beautifully, delicately and cutely.

Unlike Koko, who thinks the cat in her self-portrait sometimes looks stupid.

But those weren't her cats.

None of them are her "meow meow".

Koko opened her mouth.

She wanted to say jokingly, "Meow Meow is not a good cat. If you are not careful, it will run away."

Look at Gu Weijing’s serious face.

Koko hesitated for a moment, but still smiled sweetly.

"Okay, Teacher Gu, show me your skills and draw carefully. I will use them to fool the teachers at the campus recruitment fair in a few days."

She turned her head and extended her hand to Awang, who was working hard on the ground.

"Come on, you've gotten even dirtier. Come over here and I'll comb your hair so we can look at paintings together."

Awang was as tired as a dog, panting with his tongue hanging out.

It saw that even though it was so handsome, it couldn't conquer the other party's hard-heartedness.

He hesitated for a moment.

I decided to skip the series of processes such as “rage”, “escape”, “doubt”, etc. and directly enter the stage of “helpless enjoyment”.

It closed its eyes, leaped forward, and jumped into Koko's arms.

Koko took out an alcohol wipe from her pocket and cleaned the gray and oily hair behind Awang's ears and on his head and neck. She also used the steel comb in her hand to comb away the broken hair that was stuck to Awang's body.

She raised her eyes and watched Gu Weijing painting on the paper.

Gu Weijing used an eraser that could remove glue to carefully erase the traces of the white liquid in the center of the picture, revealing the texture of the paper underneath, and then used a wet brush to gently apply a little bit of paint around the outline of the cat.

Wetting the hard edges of the brush strokes around creates a very soft transition.

When doing this step, Gu Weijing thought about it and simply changed to a clean brush, dipped it in clean water and wet the blank area in the center of the picture.

He wanted to use a different wet painting method from Koko.

Painting on damp paper can better highlight the free-flowing dynamic temperament of watercolor paint.

The wet painting method's brushstrokes will spread and extend along the fully hydrated plant fibers, which gives it a natural advantage in expressing the texture of the human body, especially in the treatment of animal fur.

Gu Weijing mixed cadmium yellow with alizarin.

He started from the back of "Meow Meow" and shaded the color of the cat in the girl's arms from dark to light in the sunlight.

From the hair on the back to the head and neck, the lines gradually change along the curve of its spine.

Gu Weijing is not only drawing the "meow meow" in Koko's heart, but also drawing a sketch of the charming cat Bella in his mind.

In the original painting, Koko was not holding an old cat, so Gu Weijing did not deliberately make the cat look old and frail.

"Old" - it is the most important appearance feature of the protagonist cat in this musical, but it is not Bella's most important character trait.

There are many old cats on the stage.

The old patriarch and Jenny Dot are both old enough, and neither of them has been voted by the Cat Congress to become the lucky ones to ascend to the ninth heaven and be reborn.

The Charming Cat is not liked by people just because she is old enough.

The charming cat is liked by people because she is charming enough.

Bella's charm comes from her once charming face, but also from her cuteness, her strength, her loneliness, her coldness, her calmness...

Gu Weijing believed it.

Every cat on the stage saw their own shadow in her when she sang "Memory".

(End of this chapter)