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

Chapter 271, Accumulating Experience, Clay Sculpture Course
Monday afternoon.

Jiang Zhe had just finished a lecture and came to Professor Qin's office with an oil painting.

The two talked on the phone, and Professor Qin asked Jiang Zhe to place the work on the easel, and he adjusted his seat so that he could quietly look at the work from a suitable distance.

In the foreground, there is a water bay with a few white geese by the water. Around the water bay, there are several winding roads connecting the villages on both sides of the water bay.

The many houses and trees in the village, relying on the gradually rising terrain, form a layered effect. Several villagers are walking on the road in the village.

The distant view of the picture is the sky. The color of the morning light makes the sky clear and transparent.

The whole painting creates a scene of life in a mountain village in the early morning, with a sense of life in the tranquility.

The vast colors of the sky and the rich layers of the mountain village form a contrast between density and sparseness. The stacking of pigments and brushstrokes create a rich texture effect.

Professor Qin nodded: "The painting is good. Is this the work you reorganized?"

"Yes." Jiang Zhe replied: "I will use Saturday and Sunday to redraw a sketch that I am more satisfied with."

Professor Qin said: "Works that have been carefully considered look more mature. The houses in the mountain village have many levels of height and depth, but they are not messy. The colors are both integrated and have subtle changes. The last time you came here, I saw your on-site sketching works. Those works were completed in the wild, and may not be so mature, but they also have advantages - vivid and intuitive.

I suggest that you put this work and the original manuscript on display at the exhibition."

Jiang Zhe said, "Can I take up one more seat?"

Professor Qin said: "Don't think about taking more than you want. It's enough to put the two works in one place. Maybe the exhibition effect will be better.

You have copied Sargent's works and you should have read some materials. He would go to the exhibition site to inspect the exhibition, select the frame and make corresponding preparations. Many painters have done this, and you should also pay attention to this. "

"Thank you for your guidance, teacher." Jiang Zhe said something else: "Teacher, I want to organize the works of this sketch into a set of paintings."

"Oh, what gave you this idea?"

Jiang Zhe said: "My previous paintings did not form a series. So, if I want to create a group of works, I will use these subjects from sketching to accumulate some experience for painting larger subjects in the future."

Professor Qin said: "You are very courageous. Although you are very young and have little life experience, if you have this idea, just go for it boldly."

He poured a glass of water for Jiang Zhe. "You should have read art history, from the Renaissance to modern times. There is also a contempt chain among painters. Painters who can create classic historical works often look down on painters who can only paint landscapes and portraits.

Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper, Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and Raphael painted The School of Athens. Some great painters in our country in modern times have also painted historical themes. In the future, if you can paint a work with an important historical theme, it may become one of your masterpieces.

In recent years, many painters have been unable to complete works on historical themes due to external or personal limitations.

You have the time and energy now, so you can go and research it. It doesn’t matter if you fail. If you need support, you can tell me directly.”

"Thank you, teacher." When support is really needed, Jiang Zhe will not be polite.

"The school has registered the painting you donated to participate in an exhibition at the Canadian National Academy of Painting. I'm not sure whether it will win an award. This is all the school can do." Professor Qin talked about what he had promised before.

Jiang Zhe smiled and thanked: "I am already very satisfied with this arrangement."

Next, from Monday to Wednesday, whenever he had time, Jiang Zhe would look up information and make drafts for the group paintings. The sketches of the several paintings whose contents had been decided gradually took shape.

On Thursday, a new professional course began and the school arranged a clay sculpture course.

The teacher's surname is Zhou. He has long hair and speaks humorously. In the first class, he brought several of his own works.

After a brief self-introduction, he sat on a chair and talked to the students as if chatting: "You have all studied Michelangelo's works. You should know that he is good at sculpture, but it does not prevent him from becoming a great painter. Sculpture and painting are not contradictory. Many people cannot be good at both arts at the same time. It is purely a matter of personal ability.

Our school offers this course to students in the hope that they can master more modeling techniques and understand modeling from different perspectives. Speaking of more practical issues, mastering one more technique may mean one more survival skill. "

He pointed to a ceramic work on the table and said, "Everyone, look at this ceramic sculpture."

Jiang Zhe looked at it carefully and found that it was a geometric ceramic sculpture of a rooster.

Teacher Zhou continued, "I received an order last month. A boss was going to attend a trade fair and was short of product samples, so he asked me to make ceramic samples. I spent three nights making more than 100 ceramic samples.

Originally, the boss and I agreed to charge 200 yuan each. Later, when he saw the finished work, he felt that 200 yuan was not reasonable.

The students were amazed: "More than 100 pieces?"

"Can you finish it?"

"How did you do that?"

In order to arouse the students' emotions, Teacher Zhou continued, "Practice makes perfect. The more you practice, the faster you will be. If you learn this well and go out to make similar samples for others, you can earn at least 100 yuan each."

Teacher Zhou started talking about commercialization, which quickly made the students active.

He then introduced the other works on the table, one he made himself and one given to him by his friend.

"This deformed bottle is the work of Director Lin of our Binhai Sculpture Institute. He gave it to me. Hey, look, this bottle..." As he was explaining, he held up the bottle with his hand, but accidentally, his hand slipped and the bottle fell instantly.

Oh——the students exclaimed.

Teacher Zhou also reacted quickly and caught the bottle like a ball.

Although the action was quick, unfortunately he used too much force and he caught the bottle, but the mouth of the bottle hit the table.

Snap—a piece of ceramic fell from the bottle mouth.

Alas—the students expressed regret.

Teacher Zhou looked at the bottle with a painful expression, "Look at this, how did it get messed up? Oh! What a pity. Forget it, let's go back and connect it."

He put the bottle away carefully. "Okay, let's get started."

Teachers have different teaching habits.

When Mr. Zhou teaches, he is used to using chalk to draw pictures and write knowledge points on the blackboard.

After explaining the basic tools and production methods of clay sculpture, he assigned the first assignment.

Because many students were new to clay sculpture, the first assignment was to copy a plaster statue using clay sculptures.

After the lecture, Teacher Zhou led the whole class to collect materials and moved the turntable, clay, workbench and other items for making clay sculptures to the studio one by one.

(End of this chapter)