also?
Li Shi keenly noticed that Lu Congwei used the word "ye" and immediately asked: "Is anyone else painting?"
"Dapeng, he was also drawing when I video chatted with him in the afternoon, but he was drawing with brushes, not pencil drawings like yours."
Dapeng's name is Jiang Tianpeng. He is in his forties. He is a friend of Lu Congwei and one of the people who jointly bought stones this time. He is in the luggage business by profession.
Li Shi had met him once in Ruili City. He was a very thin middle-aged man with extremely long earlobes. When Lu Congwei introduced him, he also laughed and said that he had a pair of Buddha ears.
"Let me see, what are you drawing? The nose is a nose, and the mouth is a mouth."
"This is called a plaster partial head. I'm still learning. Is Dapeng good at painting?" Li Shi explained and asked again.
Lu Congwei: "I don't understand this either. He paints flowers and birds. They look much prettier than yours anyway. I remember he has been learning brush painting for at least seven or eight years. You don't know, he My brother-in-law is a painter, but he doesn’t seem to be very famous.”
He gossiped with Lu Congwei for a while, and then talked about how to deal with the stone in the future.
Although Li Shi only bought one share and took up a small amount, he had other purposes and was very concerned about these. When he heard that Lu Congwei cut out the bracelet first and then found another buyer to take it over, he immediately said: "Brother, do you know those people?" If you are capable, please introduce me to me sometime."
After entering this industry, he realized that in fact, although the jade industry was very chaotic, the division of labor was also very detailed, especially before the rise of online sales - those who played with wool, those who made bracelets made bracelets, and those who made bracelets were terminal sales.
There are very few big guys who are involved in the entire industry chain.
However, in recent years, with the rise of online sales, especially the rise of live streaming, many have become chaotic and cross-border.
"Okay, while I have bracelets this time, I will introduce you to a colleague who specializes in making bracelets in Pingzhou. His business is doing very well now."
After chatting for a while and hanging up the video, Li Shi remembered that Lu Congwei said that Jiang Tianpeng's brother-in-law was a painter, and Jiang Tianpeng himself had been studying painting for seven or eight years. He should know many people who paint circles, so he selected it from the WeChat friend list I found his WeChat account, clicked on his circle of friends and opened it.
His circle of friends has not been set to be invisible for a long time, but he has not posted a single painting, but there are many updates showing jadeite.
I scrolled through it and looked at his latest post, which was more than ten years ago: a birthday gift for my wife, she couldn't put it down.
The picture attached is a bracelet with a clear bottom. It is very smooth. Li Shi can tell at a glance that the price is not cheap. It must be at least six or above, which means at least hundreds of thousands.
When jade reaches this level, it is a high-end luxury product.
"It's a gift like this for my birthday. Boss Dapeng has a very strong family background."
Li Shi sent him a WeChat message: "Boss Dapeng, I am learning to paint recently. I heard from brother Cong Wei that you have been learning painting for many years and you are a master of painting. Please give me some advice when you have time."
Jiang Tianpeng replied quickly: "Listen to his nonsense. I just paint for fun. What kind of painting are you learning?"
"I just came into contact with it and am currently learning sketching on my own..."
After chatting for a while, he directly mentioned that he wanted to learn painting from a teacher.
Jiang Tianpeng was very enthusiastic and said: "Many of my brother-in-law's students are engaged in painting training. I first learned ink painting from one of his students. Let me ask you."
Li Shi quickly expressed his thanks.
He is trying his best to find a truly qualified teacher. It is not as easy as imagined, and sometimes it doesn’t even take money.
All walks of life are filled with a large number of "parallel imports" and "scammers". Li Shi not only continued to ask his assistant Zhang Huijing to find them, but also asked Jiang Tianpeng to help introduce them. This was casting a wide net.
In addition, he first studied on his own to improve his professional discernment ability.
When it comes to learning, he always hopes to do more fully.
The next morning, Li Shi drove to the activity base. On the second floor of the building on the left, he packed up a classroom and ran back and forth twice more to collect plaster statues and other props he had bought online in the past few days. All the painting supplies were moved from the garage and arranged in this classroom.
After finishing his work and looking at the decent studio, he felt quite accomplished.
He found David's head from the models piled in the corner, placed it on the drawing board, and prepared to draw his first plaster head.
While observing, Zhang Huijing called: "Boss, I have contacted several relatively powerful studios in Beijing and Hangzhou. These studios are famous for their art exam training. As long as you spend money, you can hire them. The teacher provides one-on-one tutoring, but you have to go there in person."
Li Shi immediately asked: "Do you have information on these studios?"
"Yes, I will send it to you right away."
Soon Zhang Huijing sent the information. Li Shi put down his pen, opened it on his mobile phone, and read it carefully.
The teachers in these studios are all graduates of top domestic art academies and have rich teaching experience.
"As long as you can really find these teachers to tutor you one-on-one, it's worth spending more money."
Li Shi thought, it seemed that he might need to go to Beijing or Hangzhou to study.
After reading the information, he put his phone away and continued to stare at David's plaster head. Following the instructions in the video tutorial, he spent two and a half hours completing his first head portrait painting.
"The painting is too dirty, ugly, and not holistic enough. As expected, I still need to practice the muscles, heads and facets first."
Li Shi picked up a lot of problems for himself at a casual glance.
After packing up my things, I returned to Phoenix Bay, had lunch, and then went into the study to study by myself for a while. Jiang Tianpeng sent me a WeChat message.
"Brother, you are from Nanhu Province, you should know Shao City, right?"
Li Shi was stunned, wondering why he suddenly asked about his hometown, and replied: "Of course I know, my hometown is in Shao City, why do you ask this suddenly?"
"You are from Shao City, that's easy to say. My brother-in-law is a student of a senior fellow in your Shao City. He graduated from Xijing Academy of Fine Arts. Now he has returned to his hometown and opened a studio specializing in teaching children to draw. I guess you must I don’t know, in fact, your hometown, Shao City, is known as the hometown of painting and has produced many painters, but most people may not understand this."
Li Shi was shocked.
Is my hometown the hometown of painting?
Never heard of it before.
He replied: "This is indeed the first time I've heard of this."
Just as he was about to continue typing and ask his brother-in-law and senior brother about the student's specific situation, an incoming call notification suddenly popped up on the phone screen.
It's his mother's number.
Get connected quickly.
"Shitou, let me tell you something. Your cousin Zhou Lin was sold."
? ?
Zhou Lin is the son of his second uncle and should be studying in junior high school in the county.
Li Shi almost thought he heard wrongly, and quickly asked: "Mom, what's going on?"
Halfway through writing this chapter, my head felt so bloated that I insisted on finishing this chapter without checking for typos, so I posted it first. Sorry.
