curse

Chapter 22

The color in the current palette is a special kind of earthy yellow. Due to the addition of some darker pigments, it makes people feel more dignified, like a silent stone, pressing down on people's hearts.Bai Bi picked up the paintbrush, dipped the tip of the brush in some water, then lightly tapped the paint, and began to smear it on the screen.The basic outlines and shapes of the characters have been drawn with pencils on the drawing paper, which did not take much time for Bai Bi.Her brushwork is a bit dry, unlike usual that she always likes to add a lot of water to the paint and nib, but now she doesn't need so much water.In fact, what she painted was a desolate desert where there was no water, only tombs and night.

The first thing she painted was the eyes of the person on the right side of the picture, which was the eyes of a woman. She had no models or pictures for copying, so she could only rely on the images in her mind to search.Finally, she searched for those eyes, mysterious eyes, the eyes were wide open, it seemed that every eyelash was clearly discernible, but the gaze in the eyes was somewhat illusory, aiming at another world.These are the eyes she imagined, or in other words, the eyes that appeared in her dreams, Bai Bi said to herself: Maybe, this is just copying a dream.After drawing the eyes, she drew the eyebrows for the person in the painting, which were curved and long, moving closer to the middle.

Then there is the nose. The bridge of the nose in the painting is very high, so the shadow on the other side of the bridge of the nose is deliberately drawn.The person is not long, and the bottom is the lips. Bai Bi doesn't like the kind of mouth that is deliberately red, so the color painted on the screen is very light, and there is hardly any red, but it is similar to the color of stones in the desert , but this does not affect the beauty of the characters.

The hair is messy and scattered casually. Bai Bi uses a mixed color of coffee and black, and properly leaves some hair reflections.The face is moderate, with some shadows added on the forehead and under the cheeks, the line of the chin is only lightly drawn, the most important thing is to highlight the shadow of the neck, so that the neck that should be fair and shiny is shrouded in darkness.

But the shoulders are looming, round and powerful, revealing a wild strength.The body part is wearing a long white dress, and Baibi deliberately made this dress look worn out, with some slight stains on it.The woman in the painting is kneeling on the ground, with a long skirt covering her knees and ankles.

Next, the most important part is the hands. The woman's bare arms look smooth and elastic under Bai Bi's brush.The fingers and the back of the hand, which are the most difficult to draw, are the center of the whole picture, because in this painting, the woman's hands are holding a human head.It was the head of a man who had been chopped off. Nearly black blood stains flowed from the neck of the head, so that the woman's hands and the lower part of the long skirt were also dripping with blood.The face of the human head is facing upwards, so only his forehead and hair can be seen clearly in the picture, while his face is hidden.

Bai Bi took a step back, and then looked at the almost finished painting - a woman in white kneeling in the desert holding a man's head.She feels that this is a composition that has been lingering in her imagination for a long time, and she always feels that this imagination is not far from reality, and now, it finally jumps onto the drawing paper.She continued to paint, daubing the background. In addition to the wasteland, the background also had castle-like ruins and raised mounds, which were actually tombs. These were all painted in very dark colors, shrouded in darkness. in the shadows.As for the upper part of the picture is the dark blue sky, in the sky, she painted the last part - the moon.It was a crooked moon, wrapped in the surrounding dark blue, so it also emitted a nearly blue moonlight.

Bai Bi let out a breath, and then processed and modified some details in the picture, and the shadows in some places needed to be deepened.Finally, she wrote four words from top to bottom with black paint on the vacant left side of the screen—Huan Duan Lou Lan.

The poster was finally finished. She said last time that she would draw a performance poster for the play "Soul Break in Lou Lan" to replace the unsightly work at the entrance of the theater.She knows that many similar posters are now made by computer, but she still likes to do it by hand, because she believes in the feeling of a brush, which is always better than a mouse.Bai Bi picked up the poster in her hand. This may be the largest painting she has ever painted. She finished the painting by pasting it on the wall, because the whole painting is as long as her body, and its width is also close to 1 meter.She opened the window, put the whole painting under the window, let the wind dry the paint on the painting, and then she sat quietly in front of the window, looking at the woman in the painting, looking at the woman holding her lover in the painting The woman with the head, she suddenly thought of Margaret in "The Red and the Black". She was wearing a plain dress to commemorate the lover of the queen who was sent to the guillotine by the French king hundreds of years ago, that is, the ancestor of her family. Man, the queen carried his head to bury him.

Suddenly, Bai Bi thought of himself.

(End of this chapter)