Almighty painter

Chapter 72 Chinese Painting Upgrade

Winter goes to spring, and the time enters the first ten days of February.

With the last lingering flavor of the year in the air gradually dissipating, Gu Weijing stood in the studio room, looking towards the open Yangon River in the distance.

The view here is very good. In the rainy season when there are no clouds, you can see at a glance the primitive jungle outside the city and the rising smoke from the jungle.

Excluding the inconvenient traffic and mud-covered roads, Yangon is a beautiful place.

There is rarely a city like it, so beautiful and so decaying, which makes people feel emotional between contradictions.

The prosperity of the past is like a fantasy dream of the foreign masters in the colonial era in those old photos. When I wake up, only a barrenness is left.

The pen tip in front of Gu Weijing gently draws a line of clear ink on the rice paper with a side edge, as the end of the Yangon ink landscape painting on the book case.

[Chinese Painting Techniques: Professional Level 201 (5000/[-])]

【Mood: A Simple Work】

There are new prompts on the mission panel.

Gu Weijing put down his pen, saw that the ink was still wet, picked up his mobile phone, took a photo, found Professor Lin Tao among his WeChat friends, and sent it.

"This is the "Landscape of Yangon" I drew impromptuly just now, isn't it a bit of an introduction?"

Gu Weijing was typing on his mobile phone.

He has been very busy this holiday season.

Every weekday he goes to the Shwedagon Pagoda to participate in the mural restoration project, and after returning home at night, he has to complete the manuscript on Fiverr, and visits the orphanage on weekends.

However, the harvest is also very full.

Relying on Mr. Cao's occasional pointers, his comprehension of color in "The Notes of Mojie", and after he hesitated, he decided to add a part of his free experience to Chinese painting techniques.

The three complement each other, and his Chinese painting technique has naturally become the second breakthrough of the semi-professional bottleneck after the sketch technique, reaching the level of a professional painter.

The reason why he sent a message to Lin Tao.

It is because this professor, no matter whether he is his master or brother, is now Gu Weijing's guide.

Although Mr. Cao appreciates Gu Weijing.

But a world-class artist naturally doesn't have time to spend the whole day's experience on himself, a beginner.

Gu Weijing added the WeChat accounts of Professor Lin Tao and Mr. Cao's assistant, Lao Yang, so that he can communicate with Professor Lin Tao at any time if he has any problems in painting.

This "Landscape of Yangon" is his first complete ink painting after he broke through to the first level of professional Chinese painting.

He wanted Professor Lin Tao to help him look at his paintings.

……

Rich area of ​​Yangon,
Aman Group International Hotels.

Professor Lin Tao, who had just attended the celebration reception, returned to the room and leaned on the bed a little sleepy.

The first phase of the Shwedagon Pagoda mural restoration project is nearing completion this Chinese New Year holiday.

The real professionals in the field of cultural relics restoration and related work in charge of finishing the protection of historical relics will continue until two years later.

But for those painters and artists who are responsible for painting, they have done almost everything they can do, and it is impossible to stay in Yangon all the time.

Great painters like Professor Lin Tao have their own work arrangements.

Ordinary teaching staff of the major art academies also need to return to school to attend classes after the start of the school year. Being able to stay here in Yangon for the Spring Festival for a month is already a sneak in the busy schedule.

Many of you wanted to take a good rest in your free time during the final week.

For example, go to tourist attractions, or enjoy the services of the hotel.

Of course, Professor Lin Tao is not short of money, but this kind of free five-star executive suite treatment is not always available.

Especially business trips.

Dongxia's university has a lot of funds, but the housing standard for full professors plus food subsidies is only a few hundred yuan, so don't even think about living in Aman or Hilton for daily business trips.

Only with this kind of international cooperation project, Yangon's local tourism department will make great efforts to entertain these artists.

He picked up the landline on one side and made a call to the concierge at the front desk of the hotel.

At this time, younger professors would still think about going to the hotel member gym to take a photo on the treadmill, pouring some mineral water on the clothes, and posting a circle of friends to pretend to be a refined and decent petty bourgeois life in Kochi.

At Lin Tao's position, he no longer cares about these things.

He packed the ice jade bracelet that he had brought to his wife for $[-] in the suitcase, and then lay down comfortably on the bed, and booked a Thai spa.

"Sevadeka!"

After a while, a young man wearing a hotel badge and wearing traditional Thai clothes came in pushing a trolley filled with essential oils and fragrances.

Professor Lin Tao was wearing a bathrobe, and put his favorite opera on the airpods in the earphones. When he put on the bed, he was moaned and kneaded by the young man like rolling dough.

"... If the king doesn't surrender, oh, oh, it's a crime for a minister, Bodang... oh, how dare you bully the master, uh..."

The spa specialist in the Aman hotel is absolutely superb, the young man is very energetic, and the acupuncture points are also accurate.

Professor Lin Tao was moaning and chirping with pleasure.

Then I heard a notification sound from WeChat.

He turned on the Do Not Disturb message for ordinary insignificant chats, and when he heard the WeChat notification tone, he raised his head and took a look.

"This is the "Rangoon River Landscape Map" I just impromptuly painted. Is it a bit of an introduction?"

He saw that it was a new message from Gu Weijing.

getting Started?

Young man, you still can't hold your breath.

Professor Lin Tao smiled.

The relationship between him and Gu Weijing is delicate now.

There is a high probability that the other party will become my apprentice, the probability of becoming my junior student... I can't say that there is no... After all, there are still some people who will be struck by lightning when they walk on the street. Anyway, Professor Lin is very pessimistic.

In any case, Gu Weijing is now considered half of Cao Xuan's disciple.

The master asked Lin Tao to take the time to give pointers to the young man.

What he did was to pass on to the other party a set of Chinese painting open classes from CAFA, so he put this matter aside.

It's not that Lin Tao doesn't pay attention to teaching.

But Chinese painting has always been difficult to learn and even more difficult to master.

No matter whether you are talented or not, if you study oil painting for a while, you will at least get familiar with the process.

Many students who have never been in touch with traditional Chinese painting have studied it for a year and a half-even the eight basic brushwork methods of pressing, sweeping, hooking, uncovering, pushing, dragging, guiding, and sending are not good enough.

As for the higher techniques and artistic conception of calligraphy and painting, it is completely nonsense.

Although this boy Gu was a court painter in his ancestors, he was also exposed to the calligraphy and painting family environment since he was a child, so he does not have a zero foundation.

But Lin Tao has learned about his Chinese painting level from Gu Tongxiang, and has also seen his previous Chinese paintings.

Probably not bad among ordinary students, not to mention excellent.

It can't compare to the other party's outstanding sketch skills, and it can't compare to his aura-filled talent for Chinese painting pigments.

Then Lin Tao has nothing to teach him now.

In the field of Chinese painting,
Is it important to have a good master?
Of course it is extremely important, much more important than the teacher of western painting.

Traditional Chinese painting not only emphasizes techniques, but also emphasizes artistic conception.

Of course, Western painting also pays attention to the state of mind.

It can be said that the more modern the art genre is, the more it pays attention to emotion than the basic realistic image and reality.

On this point, the modern art school coincides with the traditional painting concept of Dong Xia.

But at least for professional painters who are relatively basic in Western painting - oil painting is still a very [real] technique.

Where the painting is not good - the light and shade are not adjusted well, or the structural lines are too sloppy.Even if the level is not good, it is easy to know where the problem is.

Basically any professor in the Academy of Fine Arts is qualified to teach students to paint oil paintings.

Regardless of whether the teaching is good or bad, even if it is a second- or third-rate art academy, it is probably impossible to mislead the students.

But Chinese painting is different,
To a certain extent, there is a world of difference whether there is a good teacher or not.

Many painting structures and ideas, the shades of plum blossoms, the strength of bamboo...there is a slight difference in the brushwork, and the final effect is completely different.

Why are many painters really begging grandpa and grandma to ask Professor Lin Tao to show him the paintings.

Why is it that when Mr. Cao wanted to mention Gu Weijing a few words, those big professors wanted to stay for the class while licking their old faces.

It's because Mr. Cao's casual words of experience may allow the other party to break through the long-suffering mental barrier.

In many cases, even if you have established a relationship with the master, the other party really looked at your paintings seriously, and the conclusions given are very general.

"The painting is boneless", "the strokes are obscure", "the flowers are too charming", "the snow-capped mountains are too cold"...

As for what the hell is the painting of peach blossoms too charming, and the painting of snowy mountains is too cold.

Ha ha,

Go and realize it yourself.

After thinking about it, it is common to improve painting skills.

I don't understand, but it's not uncommon to meet these passages for three to five years, ten years or ten years.

The personal attributes of traditional Chinese painting are too strong, so it is difficult to teach them in batches.

I really want to be taught by others, to guide your mistakes--sorry, the master is very busy, this is the treatment only a personal disciple has.

This is after reaching a certain skill level.

Gu Weijing's level of traditional Chinese painting before, in Lin Tao's opinion, is still a novice.

Not to mention the technique of raising heights at all.

It's like the exercises in the old Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts novels.

Newcomers first learn to zigzag and step on plum blossom piles, while young monks have to carry water for the temple to burn their muscles and bones.

Do you have advanced martial arts?
Have.

But when it comes to teaching others how to perform the horse stance, it doesn't make much difference whether it's a martial artist at the entrance of the village, a guard at the gate of the mansion, or a top master like Qiu Chuji, Wang Chongyang, or Zhang Sanfeng.

Lin Tao asked Gu Weijing to draw a work that he was satisfied with, and then come to him for advice.

I didn't expect it to be only a few days.

This boy Gu felt that he had already started.

getting Started?

"It's a child after all, impatient and impatient."

Lin Tao was a little funny.

He certainly wouldn't underestimate Gu Weijing, it's well known that children want to be encouraged.

There is such a good thing as a big pie in the history of modern art that Mr. Cao's closed-door disciples are waiting ahead, even if Professor Lin Tao thinks it is just a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror.

But it's normal for people to be arrogant and want to show off.

It's just that maybe it's too extreme.

It is understandable, if he can be appreciated by Mr. Cao at this age, even if Lin Tao draws an egg casually, he would like to show it to the other party, wanting to impress the master more.

"Children, even if you don't draw well, you should give priority to encouragement, supplemented by supervision."

He made up his mind, even if Gu Weijing's painting is not good, he still hopes to encourage Gu Weijing by pinching his nose.

It's just that you should talk to the other party carefully, hoping that he can be more at ease.

Thinking about it, Lin Tao straightened up and climbed onto the bed.

While letting the Thai-style spa technician step on his waist, he hummed the song "Shuangtou Tang", and turned on the phone to load the photo Gu Weijing had just sent.

"...Uncle Wang's party is the only one left, and now I guarantee you to come to the Tang Dynasty. You don't say the word loyalty, you have a human face, a beast heart, a human face, a beast heart, and a beast heart—oh?"

Professor Lin Tao opened the photo on the phone and made a nasal sound.

He stared at the picture on the phone for a long time, opened his mouth slightly, and choked on the last line of libretto.

Just at this time, the little brother technician stretched out his foot and stepped on Professor Lin Tao's old waist.

He got stuck in his chest and abdomen in one breath.

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh……"

In the executive suite of Aman Hotel, there was a sound like a rooster crowing.

(End of this chapter)