God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 752 Pine Smoke Ink

The so-called confidence refers to Xu Jingxing's current state at this moment. He already has an idea of ​​what to paint, and he is just waiting to start writing. As long as his hands are steady and his mind is not disturbed, at least he can create a qualified work. If the state is good, there is a very high chance of creating excellent or even superb paintings.

At this moment, the picture in his mind is the scenery of the spring city, not just a single scenic spot, but the style of the whole spring city, but it does not include all the details in every detail, but the scenery of the spring city. The iconic scenic spots are selected and combined into a painting.

This half-realistic, half-virtual composition method is exactly the same as Zhao Mengfu's "Autumn Colors of Quehuahua". Both Queshan Mountain and Huabuzhu Mountain do have their own mountains, and there are indeed Pingze and Tianye people at the foot of the mountains. The location of the people in the field is beyond reality and more in line with the composition of art, making the picture look more artistic.

Of course, this is just a picture in his mind. It is very difficult to transfer the picture in his mind to the rice paper in a more concrete and vivid way, because the picture in his mind is his own imagination and can be adjusted at will The modification is even more three-dimensional, while the painting on paper cannot be wrong, small mistakes are useless, and the painting on paper is a two-dimensional painting.

The difficulty of transforming a three-dimensional imaginary picture into a two-dimensional physical painting is not just something that can be done with a steady hand and a calm mind. It is only the basic qualities that a high-level painter must possess when creating, such as skills, mood, Literary and artistic literacy is the flesh and blood and soul that can sublimate a painting.

Of course, with these, the created works are still only ordinary works, only the best in the eyes of ordinary people. For people like Xu Jingxing, there are still some things missing, such as physical properties, such as aura.

What's more, when he painted Jin Er, he wanted to make use of physicality and aura, because what Jin Er wanted was that kind of feeling. Although Jin Er didn't know exactly what kind of feeling it was, what else could he have? Feeling special?
So from the very beginning, he planned to start from these two aspects, but he didn't have a clue at the time, and didn't know what to do.Now, after the enlightenment of the little monk and his own exploration, he has found some tricks to apply these two characteristics to the creation of traditional paintings.

Now he is confident to create works similar to "The Autumn Colors of Magpies". Although his level is definitely not as high as that of Zhao Mengfu, he must be on the right path. If he persists, he might have a chance to become the Zhao Mengfu of the new era.

Of course, this is just his own opinion. In fact, in this age of thick and thin, even if his level is really as high as that of Zhao Mengfu, the praise and status he received will definitely not be as good as Zhao Mengfu. This is well known by professionals In fact, no one is willing to pierce this veil, because it is bound to cause very big debates and even fights.

However, he has never considered calligraphy and painting creation as his main business, nor has he thought about competing with anyone. It is just a hobby, and it would be good to earn some extra money. Anyway, there must be future generations to comment on his level.At that time, he was also an "ancient person". Compared with the ancient people, people's comments should be relatively objective and fair.

There is just one thing that he still can't figure out, he doesn't know whether the physicality and aura in "The Picture of Autumn Blossoms in Quehua" were endowed during the creation, or gradually bred over the long years.

If it is the former, it can only mean that Zhao Mengfu is also a practitioner; if it is the latter, it means that the method he has come up with now may not be so perfect, it can only be regarded as a trick.

It's a pity that this question is destined to be unclear, and it is impossible for Zhao Mengfu to get out of the ground to explain his doubts.

And what he has to do is to perfect the method he figured out by himself. If he can really do that, then it is not impossible for him to surpass Zhao Mengfu's reputation in the painting circle.

As for the method he figured out, the principle is actually very simple, which is to endow the work with physicality and aura during creation.Physical properties are a little bit easier to talk about. When he was in Daocheng, he accidentally made a compass with strong biological properties, but he was still a little ignorant at the time, and didn't know how he did it.

Now, he more or less understands some principles, and he is [-]% sure that he can do it.

As for infusing spiritual energy into foreign objects, it is too difficult to let the spiritual energy dissipate, but no matter how difficult it is, it is worth trying, isn't it?Although doing so will waste a lot of spiritual energy, if you can really master this technique, you will not lose money anyway.

Why was his aura consumed so quickly a few days ago?It is because of that trial and error until the trial succeeds.

Now he has been able to successfully infuse aura into his works, but in order to preserve the aura for a long time, he has spent a lot of thought, and finally achieved the goal by combining the magical use of physical properties.

That is to say, once he completes the creation, the painting will have the existence of physicality and aura at the same time. It has the common characteristics of both, and it must also exist at the same time, because without the force field of physicality, the aura he instilled will soon disappear.

Of course, this process still requires him to be very careful, very careful, and the thought and energy consumed are much more than simply creating an excellent painting, even ten times more. , that really cannot tolerate a little sloppy.

In addition, his creative method also has relatively high requirements on materials. Good paper and brushes are a must. Even dyes, inks, and even water can’t be sloppy. better.

It's a pity that I really couldn't buy old paper for a while, but I just bought a piece of pine smoke ink from the Tongzhi period in the market.

The pine smoke ink is black and dull, and when used in painting, it will present a sense of boundless landscape, and the smudge effect is also better, with a stronger sense of layering.However, the production of pine smoke ink requires a lot of consumables, and a large number of pine trees need to be felled for firing, which pollutes the environment and destroys water and soil. Therefore, the current pine smoke ink manufacturers do not use whole pine trees, but scattered pine branches.

The quality of the pine smoke ink made from pine branches can be imagined. Although it is the same black, but the charm is much worse, so the current pine smoke ink is basically synonymous with inferior ink. Compared with the oil smoke ink, the price Much worse.

But the old pine smoke ink doesn’t have this problem. The ancients didn’t care about your environment, as long as you have money to make money, in order to improve the quality of pine smoke ink, they dared to cut down old pine trees for you.

(End of this chapter)