Almighty painter

Chapter 620 Meow Meow
Gu Weijing painted very quickly.

He seemed to have gone through several drafts in his mind.

The soft hair on the head, neck, chest and abdomen, and the cat's eyes slightly raised with a little curiosity, a little vigilance, a little warmth to get close to you, and a little hesitation as if it would jump away from your chest and run away at any time.

These subtle curves, which are the most difficult for painters to capture, are extremely clear in his mind.

The cat in the girl's arms, looking at her, gradually emerged on the paper.

Just now, Koko was drawing and Gu Weijing was watching beside her.

Now it's the other way around.

Koko sat next to them, scratching the short hair under the chin of the fat cat in her arms from left to right with a small steel comb in her hand, watching the boy draw.

The closer the painting was to completion, the smoother Gu Weijing's brushstrokes became.

He paused only briefly after applying the base coat, and while the first layer of paint was still damp on the paper, he immediately added a second layer of color to depict the subtle changes in the light and dark of its fur, deepening its pink nose and palm-colored pupils.

The brush touches the wet paper lightly and then leaves.

Just like a dragonfly gliding low across the water, leaving a series of ripples behind it.

In Koko's eyes, the paint seemed to be dissolved in the paper rather than smeared on it.

Gu Weijing kept adjusting the angle.

He tilted the brush in a subtle arc, bringing the tip of the brush into contact with the paper at a small angle. At the moment when the side of the brush filled with paint touched the picture, the color freely dissolved along the water-absorbing holes of the watercolor paper and turned into a pool of clear mist.

His brush is so light.

To outsiders, it looks like someone is carefully and tiptoeing to pick up a naughty cat that is full of curiosity about the world but also wary.

Once the movement becomes heavy and big.

The cat will turn its head and run away from you.

Gu Weijing painted a kitten.

An animal with a warm, hot, translucent, boneless, flowing and soft body, under which is a curious, vigilant, naughty, stubborn and brave heart.

It’s the “meow meow” in Koko’s arms.

She is also the charming cat Bella in Gu Weijing's heart.

Koko looked at the kitten gradually taking shape in the boy's hands.

She lowered her head, just like the girl in the painting, and looked at the fat man in her arms.

"How's the painting?"

Koko looked at Awang and asked.

Awang lay in her arms with his arms and legs spread out.

He said no, but he kept shouting at Awang and Dawang, saying that they were not clean, did not brush their teeth, and did not take a bath. He wanted to be a dirty cat who was happy naked.

But if you don't throw it into the basin and let it come into contact with water.

I used a comb to gently scratch away the small knots of hair on its body, and Awang really enjoyed the feeling.

At this moment, it was enjoying itself so much that it almost fell asleep.

Awang closed his eyes, leaving only a very thin slit, and his tail hung from Koko's arms. As the girl scratched her arms rhythmically, a slight sticky "snoring, snoreing" sound came from his throat.

His chest rose and fell slightly with the sound of his breathing.

A cat's heart beats faster than a human's. Even when it is relaxed, its heart rate is close to the human aerobic zone, which is more than 120 beats per minute.

When I hold it in my arms, it feels like I'm holding a small hand drum that heats up by itself.

Koko didn't really ask out loud.

But perhaps the change in combing rhythm caught the attention of Awang in his arms. As Koko lowered her head, Awang also raised his head and looked at the young lady with puzzled eyes.

"Great."

Koko did not make things difficult for Awang.

She hummed softly, asked and answered herself in a low voice, patted the hand warmer's butt, continued to scratch its fur with a comb, and signaled it to continue sleeping.

She turned her head to look at the kitten on the drawing paper beside her.

Gu Weijing had just used the side of his pen to add a dot of the reflection of the sky on the paper in his eyes.

There is a hint of light blue in the pigment.

Koko saw the whole process of Gu Weijing mixing the pigments.

In the past, she never thought that cobalt blue plus a little bit of raw umber could produce such a beautiful color.

The lake-colored eyes reflected the blue water in the sky.

Koko's eyes and eyebrows are gentle.

Her eyes were also bright, reflecting the light from the sky above her head.

Waves reflect waves.

"Meow meow." Koko hummed softly with a smile.
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a few minutes ago.

Miss Sakai had already finished today's meditation breathing training, but she was still sitting on the mat and didn't walk over.

Creativity requires private space.

Gu Weijing painted very seriously.

Koko also studied very seriously.

therefore.

She did not go over to interrupt the "teaching" process of Gu Weijing's demonstration painting to Koko. Instead, she was curious and wanted to see how Gu Weijing's painting would be different.

Katsuko Sakai has been comforting her boyfriend.

Keep a calm mind and focus on the brush.

The jury gives the prize to the painter who deserves it most, not to the painter who wants it most.

Regardless of whether you win the prize or not, you must be brave and be yourself.

She is the daughter of Kazunari Sakai.

Shengzi, who has won various awards since childhood and has the best artistic resources, is not as obsessed with winning awards as most ordinary people and small town painters like Gu Weijing.

The moment of winning the award will come eventually.

Shengzi believed this.

All she has to do is wait slowly, live in the present moment, and appreciate her spiritual experience as she goes through every minute and every second.

But let's focus on life itself.

It can be said that although Ms. Sakai has a good personality, she is actually a very competitive girl in real life.

Since childhood, she has crushed her younger brother Gangchang in all aspects and made him unable to raise his head.

In kindergarten, the teacher distributed fruits at noon. Katsuko Sakai's apples were big and red, but when they were given to Tsunamasa, they were often one-third smaller than his sister's.

When she was in elementary school, she won the first prize in the city's children's artist competition, and the governor of Osaka personally presented her with the award and took a photo with her.

When Gangchang participated, he received an honorary award.

The teacher in charge took a plastic medal from a big basket and gave it to him. He touched his head and said in the same stereotyped tone, "Sakai-kun, you've done very well. Keep up the good work."

It's the kind of "honor" medal that each participating child gets one, with congratulations written on it and the teacher saying it's a good job, but every parent knows that it's not suitable to be shown off.

Junior high school age.

Katsuko was playing the third set against Pro, who is ranked 129th among Japanese junior tennis players, on an indoor court.

Little Gangchang was waving a towel while sitting on the baseball bench, cheering for the big brothers on the school team and managing the water dispenser diligently.

It’s no wonder that Kazunari Sakai is a little biased.

Shengzi's growth history is a bloody and tearful history in which her younger brother is made to look completely humiliated.

It's not just Sakai Tsunomasa who has lived in the shadow of his older sister since childhood.

Tanaka Masakazu, the second-generation fishmonger who had previously competed with Gu Weijing for the gold-plated spot in the Shwedagon Pagoda, had been crushed by Miss Sakai since he was a child and was about to develop a mental illness.

Shengzi didn't even remember his name.

From the perspective of Katsuko Sakai.

Success had long become a daily habit, and she was already familiar with the results of doing better than all her peers.

Therefore, when Gu Weijing appeared, he attracted Shengzi's attention so quickly.

She was happy about their tacit understanding, but also had some small thoughts of comparing.

Gu Weijing's painting skills improved rapidly. But when it comes to understanding and thinking about art, it is Shengzi who has gone further. She often guides others like a teacher.

Katsuko Sakai has been tutoring Koko in making a portfolio, and during this period of time, she thinks she has been teaching very seriously.

Koko is also very smart and learns very quickly.

In more than a month, the works painted by the other person have become completely different.

However, because of her limited original foundation, Shengzi could feel that Koko had reached a bottleneck in painting.

Ordinary people who do not exercise often experience a "sweet spot period" of several weeks of instant fat burning and rapid weight loss after they first start fitness training.

Even if you just exercise by yourself in your spare time, you will lose weight.

But when his weight reaches a certain value, the weight loss effect will almost stagnate.

Even started to rebound slightly.

It's come to this point.

If you want to lower your body fat percentage, become more muscular, or even move towards professional fitness.

Then increase the amount of exercise, supervised by a personal trainer or a scientific fitness plan, strictly match the diet, consume protein, and control carbohydrates and sugars.

None of these aspects can be neglected.

Into the field of painting.

When a painter's technique reaches a bottleneck, if he wants to make a higher breakthrough, it is not enough to be "smart". What is needed is persistent painting practice or a sudden enlightenment.

The painting difficulties that Koko faced were not so stubborn and unbreakable that they would hold up an ordinary painter for half his life.

As long as you have perseverance, talent is not too bad.

Most art students can overcome this small gap.

But even if it doesn’t take five or ten years to break through the difficulties, five or six months is always necessary. When you are in the introductory stage of watercolor, it is common to stay and practice for two or three semesters.

Whether it's relying on hard work to wear away a stone, or waiting for that golden moment when blessing comes to your heart.

It is not a shackle that can be broken in ten days.

When Katsuko Sakai was teaching Koko, she realized that the results of her recent self-portraits were similar and there was no obvious improvement. She understood that this level was the limit of her, "Teacher Sakai," private lessons.

Shengzi did not let Koko polish the "Self-portrait with Cat" repeatedly, focusing on the lines and colors.

Every practice has an end.

Koko has now successfully crossed the line of "qualified".

OK, that's good enough.

Katsuko Sakai allowed Koko to bind her portfolio in preparation for the final interview.

She heard Gu Weijing's request for Koko to redraw her self-portrait.

Miss Sakai believed that it was definitely not as simple as Gu Weijing couldn't resist the urge to help Koko cheat at the campus recruitment fair.

No.

That tone, that look.

This is too stingy for Gu Weijing's attitude when he picked up the pen to paint.

She guessed that Gu Weijing must think that he saw something.

Shengzi was a little confused, but more of a expectant one.

It’s just a painting, can it make such a big difference?

She doesn't know the answer.

Katsuko Sakai is a very quiet person.

She would never rush over and tell her boyfriend how much she dislikes him or that there is no point in doing so.

The meaning of life is not just about the results.

It is also in the process of things happening.

Shengzi would rather sit here quietly, looking at the other person with expectant eyes, waiting for the result to come to her.

just now.

The results came out.

Katsuko Sakai suddenly realized that she no longer needed to walk up to the painting to immediately check out the demonstration effect.

Koko is different now.

She wrapped her arms around the cat and looked at the painting sideways. The hem of her floral skirt fluttered slightly in the wind, and her eyebrows were as thin as if they were painted.

Her whole posture is somewhere between stillness and movement.

Koko sat there motionless, yet seemed as if she was about to move suddenly.

Katsuko Sakai once again felt the scent of a green grass forest.

She chose to close her eyes instead of opening them.

Gu Weijing's paintings are by no means the kind that are fierce, frenzied, or like terrifying thunder that would instantly captivate and make people forget everything else.

Judging from the feeling Koko gave her.

It was more like a noisy wind, carrying the chirping of insects and birds, the sound of swaying grass and trees, and the breath of spring, blowing into her heart.

It contains the most vivid Zen chants and the most complex mantras.

It is so light that it is almost silent.

However, it caused a huge resonance in the lake deepest in the forest.

Katsuko Sakai was aware of this.

She stood between the shadows of the trees and the ancient pond, and saw the lotus stamens blooming between the shadows of the pond.

No birds singing, no frogs flying.

In the boundless silence.

"Meow." She heard the innocent sound of a little animal.
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[Serial Mission: Fusion Painting-Hai Na Bai Chuan (3/3 Final Mission)]

[Current task content: Learning, improvement, and inheritance are the source of the endless fire of art. They are also the process of a person having a broad mind and embracing all rivers. Gifts of roses, hand a fragrance. Guiding others is the most effective summary and learning for oneself. Please complete six guidance paintings for other creators, including at least five "color-enhancing" works and one "finishing" level work. 】

[Current mission progress: color improvement (5/5)/eye-catching (1/1)]

[The current task has been completed, and you have a new reward waiting to be claimed. ]

Gu Weijing specially saved the finishing touch for this charming cat for the last stroke of the painting.

When the tip of the pen is lifted from the surface of the watercolor paper.

Although he already had some feelings and guesses, he was still very surprised to hear the prompt sound of task completion on the system panel.

The final stage of this serial task took him two months to complete.

He originally thought that when the mission was finally completed, he should be filled with a sense of accomplishment, and he couldn't wait to check what the second legendary skill he obtained from the system was.

but.

At this moment, he really felt sincerely comforted.

This feeling of fulfillment and joy does not come from the system's prompt that the task is completed, but from the work in hand.

(End of this chapter)