Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Chapter 143, Mission Rewards, Lucky Draw, Report Exhibition Opening

After Jiang Zhe and Wang Zhen ended the call, they calmed down first, then edited the content into text messages and sent them to their parents and several people close to them.

Jiang Yi called immediately and asked for details.

They were still out having fun, but when they saw the news, they couldn't help but want to know the exact news.

After getting detailed information from Jiang Zhe, the couple's happiness could be heard clearly over the phone.

Jiang Zhe heard his parents discussing going home as soon as possible.

The second person who called Jiang Zhe was Sister Liao.

"Sister Liao, how is your work lately?"

Sister Liao's voice remained unchanged, her tone brisk: "My work is going well. Wang Zhen has passed the news to me through someone. Congratulations, your work will also be recognized abroad."

After hearing this, Jiang Zhe blushed a little. After all, this opportunity was found for him by the system.

"Thank you. Do you have time to come back during the holidays? Our school is holding an exhibition."

Sister Liao said, “I really don’t have time to go back during the holidays, but I heard that you are going to participate in the Provincial Art Annual Exhibition.

The annual exhibition will be held in the provincial capital. I will definitely find a chance to go and support you. By then, can you come to the provincial capital? I will take you there for fun."

Jiang Zhe said: "I will try to go once."

"Okay. I want to see you win the award." Sister Liao finished her congratulations and began to advise: "When you receive an honor, it's easy to get carried away. At this time, someone will pull you out to play and draw you into a relationship. Do you remember my previous advice?"

Jiang Zhe said: "I remember it."

Sister Liao said, "Prepare your work at home. Don't go to do anything else. Leave it to Wang Zhen."

"okay, I get it."

"If you have any questions, feel free to call me."

After the call ended, Sister Liao put down her phone and looked at an oil painting on the wall, speechless for a long time. Not long after leaving Binhai, I missed those days more and more.

At the same time, Jiang Zhe just put down the phone and saw that there were several missed calls, one of which was Chen Yan's number.

Jiang Zhe dialed Chen Yan's number.

"What happened to you just now? Why were you still on the phone?" Chen Yan answered the phone and complained.

Jiang Zhe said: "Many people called me."

"I guess that's it." Chen Yan changed her tone and said, "You are awesome! I want to tell my classmates about this news as well."

Jiang Zhe hurriedly stopped him: "Don't do that, it will make people think you are showing off."

"I want to help you promote it." Chen Yan said.

Jiang Zhe hurriedly gave his reasons: "Winning the award has already attracted a lot of attention. If you go out and show off, you will really be hated."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. Do you want to go out and celebrate?" Chen Yan suggested.

Jiang Zhe said helplessly: "I still have a lot of missed calls, and I still have to set up the exhibition later. Let's wait until I'm done with this."

"When will your exhibition start?" Jiang Zhe said, "The day after tomorrow."

"So fast?"

Jiang Zhe explained: "There was also an invitational exhibition for the public that day. We opened together with them by relying on their influence."

Chen Yan said that she would invite her classmates to visit the exhibition.

The two chatted for a while and ended the call.

Jiang Zhe put down the phone and poured himself a glass of water. Before he could drink it, his phone rang again. It was an unfamiliar number.

He drank some water while answering the phone.

This time, the person who called was actually President Cui of the Binhai Art Society.

"Jiang Zhe, I heard from Wang Zhen that you won a bronze medal. Congratulations."

Jiang Zhe replied: "Chairman Cui, such a small matter actually alarmed you."

Chairman Cui took this matter very seriously and planned to publicize it. The two praised each other and ended the call.

Jiang Zhe received many calls one after another.

He became more and more skilled at using polite words to deal with people, and he could even open the system while talking, watching the system's silent prompts and receiving honor experience points.

Looking at the honor experience bar slowly growing, it doesn't seem so painful to say polite words.

The congratulatory calls finally stopped.

Jiang Zhe once again felt the temptation of foreign awards to Chinese people in this era. This situation will not improve until 20 years later.

He made himself a cup of tea, adjusted his mood, and returned to painting.

Jiang Zhe drew two detailed sketches based on two groups of still lifes. Realistic or hyper-realistic watercolor still lifes require meticulousness and the expression of beauty.

While sketching, he thought of many classic still life works and pondered how to reflect aesthetics through still life painting techniques.

After he had solved the sketching problem, he began to consider the tone of the still life.

Jiang Zhe was busy until night, and only stopped writing and took a rest when he heard the system prompt.

He clicked on the system and saw that the prompt came from the most prominent long-term task on the task page - Growth of a Great Painter.

The first stage of the long-term task requires increasing honor points, and the first goal is to participate in the competition.

Now, the results of both competitions have been fed back.

The system task gives a prompt that the first goal of the first phase of the long-term task has been achieved and the painter can receive the reward.

Jiang Zhe clicks to receive the reward.

A pop-up window appears on the system page:
The painter completes the first goal and gets rewarded.

Reward 1: 10 yuan in funds. Reward 2: One opportunity to improve skills, which can be randomly selected by painters through the lottery page.

Reward 3: The painter gets special opportunities and increases his fame.

Jiang Zhe clicked on the three rewards respectively to view the details.

Reward funds, he will choose to sell paintings. The system prompts to wait patiently.

As for the second reward, Jiang Zhe is looking forward to improving his watercolor painting skills, after all, he has to prepare a work for the competition.

The system did not give too much explanation about the third reward, but only asked Jiang Zhe to pay attention to seize the opportunity, but also specifically reminded him that there is a possibility of missing this opportunity.

There are two rewards, which are of the uncontrollable type. Jiang Zhe simply stopped thinking about them and started drawing skill rewards directly.

The lucky draw wheel appears. All the prize boxes have no color distinction, only different sizes.

He closed his eyes, randomly picked a gift box, and clicked to receive it.

System prompt: The player has drawn a skill upgrade opportunity and upgraded the oil painting skill (direct painting method) to the intermediate level.

Jiang Zhe was not satisfied with the reward.

The reward he wanted most was the watercolor painting skill. However, the matter was done, and improving the oil painting skill would be useful to him as well.

He clicked to receive the reward, and a sense of awareness came into his mind.

While digesting the skills, Jiang Zhe slowly understood what the rewards covered.

This information is part of the oil painting techniques selected by the system. Although it is only an intermediate skill, it comes from some painters who have made special contributions to direct painting, so it is very valuable.

This skill improvement also made Jiang Zhe's understanding of colors more rational.

After digesting the information, Jiang Zhe felt the urge to create.

In order to quickly verify his skills, he found the gouache tools, compared them with a set of still lifes, and began sketching.

Gouache paint can simulate some of the direct painting techniques of oil painting and is a convenient tool for painting.

In the process of shaping the image, he used his newly acquired techniques and experience, and soon found that he had made great progress in toning and using colors.

After Jiang Zhe finished practicing his new skills, he looked at his finished works and came up with a new idea: if he wanted to participate in a group exhibition, he didn’t necessarily have to use watercolor.

……

The next morning, Jiang Zhe was at the station and saw his parents getting off the train with their luggage. He hurried over to take the luggage.

"Dad, Mom, why did you buy so many things?"

Jiang Yi said: "I didn't buy it."

Xu Li explained: "We were in a hurry to come back. It was a gift from relatives and friends, so we couldn't refuse it."

Jiang Zhe asked, "Didn't you say you wanted to play for a few more days?"

"We have heard good news about you, so how can we have the mood to go out and have fun? You have an exhibition of your works, and we have to go and see it."

Jiang Zhe and his parents returned to their new home.

Jiang Yi asked, "Do you need an invitation to your exhibition? How can we get there?"

Jiang Zheda said: "The exhibition will start tomorrow. No invitation is needed. When you and my mom arrive at school, call me.

But don’t go too early.”

Xu Li said: "Can we take pictures then?"

Jiang Zhe replied: "Our exhibition is allowed, but other exhibitions are not allowed. Our family of three can take a photo together in the exhibition hall."

Xu Li said, "Tomorrow, you should dress better."

……

On the opening day of the exhibition, Jiang Zhe arrived at the art museum early.

There were banners and balloons hanging on the entrance of the art gallery, but these were promotions for the school's invitational exhibition.

The works of the invitational exhibition are arranged on the first and second floors of the exhibition hall. Some students in school will be responsible for guiding and explaining the works.

The student work report exhibition was on the third and fourth floors, and there were no large banners or posters. However, most of the participating students were enthusiastic and came to either help or serve as spectators.

When Jiang Zhe arrived at the third exhibition hall, he saw several classmates gathering at the stairs, watching the lively scene downstairs.

The exhibition hall downstairs was bustling with activity. Many guests were well-dressed. A guest was interacting with the host.

Mou Xing murmured to himself with some envy: "When can we participate in such an exhibition?"

The monitor said, "Our current exhibition is pretty good, you see, we're just two floors short."

"It's different. Theirs is a professional exhibition, and ours is a report exhibition." said a classmate.

"We need to use other people's publicity to attract some audiences." said another classmate.

"It's great to have this exhibition." Some students are very satisfied. "We are freshmen, look at other grades, even graduate students, not everyone can participate in professional exhibitions."

"Look, there are several students majoring in Chinese painting guarding the passages and stairs. I guess they want to attract more visitors. Should we send someone over?"

The squad leader said: "Since they have sent people to guard it, we will be responsible for guiding the visitors to our exhibition hall."

As they chatted, they heard the band start playing until the exhibition officially opened.

After the exhibition began, a large number of visitors quickly entered the exhibition halls on the first and second floors.

Obviously, fewer people paid attention to the student report exhibition. Some people would leave after viewing the exhibition on the second floor.

Many students tried hard to guide visitors to visit the report exhibition, but with little success.

Jiang Zhe is also working hard to guide visitors. As long as someone appreciates his work, it may increase his honor.

(End of this chapter)