"Shitou, I can't take the New Year's Day holiday."
On the phone, Chen Qiuye sounded a little frustrated.
Li Shi was looking forward to gathering with them on New Year's Day and quickly asked: "What's wrong?"
"I was transferred to the capital on the 29th to attend a very important meeting of the group company. It may be related to my future career prospects. It's not easy to ask for leave, and I don't want to ask for leave. But this meeting will last for several days. It will take New Year's Day directly. The vacation is covered, and I may have to stay there to participate in a project later.”
So that's it.
Li Shi was slightly disappointed, but it was nothing.
"It's okay, what about sister-in-law?"
"Well, my sister-in-law said she would accompany me to the capital, otherwise I would be afraid of staying in a hotel alone...hehe."
Speaking of this, Chen Qiuye couldn't help but laugh.
This woman.
He originally thought that he could go to the capital to join them, but after thinking about it, he decided not to. He was in particularly good study condition during this period, so he might as well finish the course in one go.
In addition, he also planned to return to the village during the New Year's Day.
"You... that's fine, let's wait until we're done for a while. By the way, I want to buy a house in the capital in the future. You go here this time and ask about foreigners buying houses in the capital."
Li Shi remembered that the last time he searched for information about foreigners buying properties in the capital and Shanghai, he mentioned it.
Chen Qiuye was very interested: "Stone, do you want to buy a house in the capital?"
"Yes, I may go to the capital to study in the future, so I bought it in advance."
"What do you want to buy? Where do you plan to buy it?"
Li Shi was a little excited when he heard her voice, and asked with a smile: "Do you like Beijing very much?"
Chen Qiuye smiled and said: "Yes, now that I know you, my favorite city is Tanzhou, but before that, my favorites were Beijing and Sanya. When I came out of Northeast China when I was a child, the first stop I went to was Beijing. I had a very good impression of Beijing at that time, and I thought that if I had the opportunity in the future, I would definitely buy a house in Beijing... But later I stayed in Yangcheng after graduating from university."
Li Shi listened quietly to her story about the past and said softly: "Then if you have time, take the time to learn more about the real estate market in the capital. When we buy a house in the capital, we can go there and live there when we have time."
After chatting for a while, we hung up the phone.
Li Shi opened the browser and searched the prices of luxury homes in Beijing.
Soon, he found a list of "Top 50 Real Estate Transaction Records in Beijing" posted by a real estate agency on Weibo.
He scanned it from top to bottom: the first place was Zhonghai Kaixuan, with an area of 229,000 square meters; the second place was Wanliu Academy, with an area of 222,000 square meters... and the 50th place was Runze Imperial Palace, with an area of 138,000 square meters.
"With my savings of more than 70 million yuan, if I buy this No. 1 China Overseas Triumph, it will only be enough to buy 300 square meters. Gee, it's really a sky-high price."
"It seems that before going to Beijing or Shanghai to buy a house, I need to save more money."
He thought that if he wanted to buy one, he would have to buy a big house. The big house would be comfortable to live in, and at home... well, what the hell, the master bedroom should also be able to accommodate a three-meter-wide custom-made bed.
Li Shi has the habit of exercising before going to bed, and he is too strong. Even if he controls it, sometimes when the frequency is high or the mood is high, he will inevitably increase the force on the bed.
The bed imported from France in the master bedroom of Phoenix Bay is already a little loose.
"Imported things like this are beautiful but not strong. Next time I buy a house and renovate it, or replace an old bed in Phoenix Bay, I will have to customize it myself. The main structure of the bed must be reinforced."
Since he customized it himself, Li Shi, who has liked sleeping in a big bed since he was a child, must order an extra-large one.
"If it can be three or four meters wide, two or three people rolling on it won't have to worry about falling."
Li Shi calculated. It was said on the Internet that the best way for outsiders to buy a house in Beijing is to find an agency to apply for a work and residence permit. It takes more than half a year to apply for this permit. Within half a year, it should not be a big problem to add tens of millions more cash to his account. .
"At least I made an agreement with Zhou Yajuan from Dejia that I have to support her performance in their company's spring auction next year."
Manager Zhou is a person who knows how to maintain customer relationships. In addition to celebrating holidays, he will also send messages from time to time to greet him. Any souvenirs produced by his company will be thoughtfully sent directly to Li Shi. Although they are not valuable items, But Li Shi felt this intention.
So some time ago, she asked Li Shi to support her performance in the spring auction next year. Li Shi hesitated for two days and then "reluctantly" agreed.
A large auction company like them has no worries about ordinary auction items, but it takes a lot of effort to collect the top auction items that can dominate the market.
Putting down his phone, Li Shi looked at the sky outside.
In winter, it gets dark early. Although it's only six o'clock, it's already completely dark outside.
He was too lazy to go out to eat, so he ordered a takeaway and began to review what he had learned in the afternoon training class.
"Violet is used very frequently, and Earle cobalt violet can basically achieve most of the functions of violet. Its advantage is that the dyeing property is very weak, even weaker than titanium white..."
In recent courses, I have started learning about color mixing and painting.
Strictly speaking, this is an introductory course for learning oil painting, which can be regarded as an extended study of sketching.
“The sketch is gray and black and white.”
"Actually, whether it is an oil painting or any other color painting, the relationship between light and dark in the sketch must still be used to create the shape. The basic relationship structure in the sketch is the same as that in oil painting."
After finishing, the takeaway was also delivered.
One portion of stir-fried meat with dried mushrooms, one portion of stir-fried green beans, and a large box of rice. Li Shi took a bite and felt that the taste was okay, better than what he had ordered in the previous few days.
He ordered takeout from different restaurants. At least the food in this restaurant didn't use too much oil, and the ingredients were still fresh.
After eating a few mouthfuls, Li Shi put this restaurant on his regular list.
While eating the rice, he also took out his tablet, opened an e-book - "Color and Light", and started reading it roughly.
After roughly reading a dozen pages, he stood up and threw the lunch box into a black garbage bag, tied it up, and put it at the door to take it down tomorrow morning.
Close the door, come to the desk, and start practicing soft pen sketching.
At this stage, color learning is only an extension and auxiliary. The purpose is to experience sketching from another angle and improve the understanding of sketching.
Practicing soft-pen sketching is to deepen the basic skills of advanced sketching, which is the core task at the current stage.
He worked hard until one o'clock in the morning. After copying two pictures of gods, he went to bed to rest.
I got up at 6:30 the next morning, and as usual, I randomly selected some objects at home, such as dining tables, chairs, sofas, dishes, curtains, etc., and started doing regular still life sketches with pencil.
I painted one piece at a time until 8:30 in the morning, then I went out with my bag and had a bowl of spicy fungus and tofu rice noodles at the rice restaurant in front of the community, and then went to the studio for class.
Li Shi returned to the county seat on the 22nd. He started classes on the 23rd and went to school for nine consecutive days. He took a day off on New Year's Day and went back to the village to have two meals with his mother and check on the progress of building his own house. He returned to the county seat and continued his classes until January 7th, successfully completing the second phase of the course.
"Teacher Gao, thank you for taking this time."
After the last class, Li Shi said goodbye to Gao Mei and expressed his heartfelt thanks.
Gao Mei was very emotional. She looked at the boy in front of her who was very comfortable to get along with and said with some reluctance: "I didn't expect time to fly by so fast... By the way, if you continue to study painting, what's the problem? You can still discuss it with me, as long as I can help you, I will definitely help you."
Li Shi smiled and said thank you again: "If you have any doubts, I will definitely bother Teacher Gao again. I hope Teacher Gao won't find me annoying."
"Certainly not."
Gao Mei sent him to the door and suddenly said with a smile: "If you don't come to class in the future, I don't know when we will see each other again. Before we say goodbye, give him a hug."
As he said that, he stretched out his hands towards Li Shi openly.
Li Shi was stunned for a moment, subconsciously looking behind her, and suddenly remembered that Guo Ying was not here today, and they were the only two in the studio, so he stepped forward, opened his hands, and hugged Teacher Gao politely.
He talked about etiquette, but he didn't want Teacher Gao, who loved to eat xiaolongbao, to talk about ethics. He suddenly squeezed his waist hard and pressed his whole body against Li Shi's chest and abdominal muscles.
"When I was talking about artistic anatomy, I wanted to experience how it feels to hold you...haha, I finally got my wish today."
"Okay, classmate Li Shi, goodbye. If you can hold an art exhibition one day in the future, remember to give me a ticket and I will go and support you."
After a short three seconds, Gao Mei let go.
He took two steps back, waved to Li Shi, turned around and entered the house, closing the door behind him.
Li Shi paused for a few seconds before shaking his head with a smile and pressing the elevator button.
I thought to myself, you are such a good teacher, I have always regarded you as my teacher sincerely, but you have actually been thinking about my body for so long...
ten minutes later.
Li Shi sat on his sofa in a happy mood and called up the learning panel to "take a look". The feeling that he was about to upgrade was already very strong.
Only two more practices, natural landscape sketching and human body sketching, are needed to be promoted to (Proficient+)!
"Natural landscape sketching is easy, but human body sketching... is a bit difficult."
If you want to achieve results in sketching practice and achieve progress recognized by the learning panel, you must at least produce one masterpiece.
Different from randomly looking for models when learning from bones, if you want to draw a masterpiece, you must be original.
However, ordinary models cannot inspire Li Shi's creative inspiration.
He pondered for a while, and the first candidates that flashed in his mind were the two fairy trees in his back garden - whether it was Chen Qiuye or Wang Yuelan, he was always inspired by these two women.
It is a pity that the two women who have not returned home are still in the capital. After Chen Qiuye went to the capital for a meeting last time, he was left in the capital by the leader of his group company to participate in a big project. It is expected that it will take at least half a month. Time was about to end, and Wang Yuelan stayed there to accompany her.
The third candidate is naturally Wu Yuan.
But she is also far away in Shanghai, busy opening a branch.
"I can go to Beijing and Shanghai, but once I drag them to sketch, they will inevitably be obsessed with my art world and have no intention of working. This will interfere with their careers... let's forget it."
A few more candidates flashed through Li Shi's mind, he sifted through it, and finally left a list of three people in his mind: live broadcast salesman Qiao Qiao and twin sisters Hua Ailan and Aiya.
These three people all met during the last trip to Dongguang Province. They had some contact later, but not much. When checking Moments, they would like, leave messages, and occasionally chat.
"After all, I'm not familiar with it. If I ask someone to devote themselves to art rashly, I'm afraid I'll be regarded as a wolf and a lunatic...and I'm too embarrassed to say it out loud."
Li Shi thought for a while and felt that it would be better to complete the practice of landscape sketching first.
"However, I told sisters Ailan and Aiya that I would give them portraits, and also invited them to visit Nanhu Province. It just so happened that while I was going to sketch the scenery, I could fulfill my promise. "
Keeping one's word is a traditional virtue, and painting twins can hone his skills in portrait painting, which will be helpful for subsequent impact (mastery-).
No matter which aspect you look at, you should ask others.
Li Shi immediately took out his mobile phone and flipped to Ai Lan's WeChat. He originally wanted to check her circle of friends first, but found that "Friends are visible for three days" was set up, so he returned to the dialog box, edited the text and sent a message: "What are you doing? ? I was so busy some time ago that I forgot to ask, how is your coffee shop?"
Ailan responded very quickly. In less than half a minute, he replied: "((⊙︿⊙)) It was transferred out last weekend, alas."
Li Shi saw that their store had already taken action, so he got straight to the point:
"Then why don't you go on a quick trip to Nanhu Province to relax."
"Last time, I promised to treat you to Nanhu delicacies, and I also promised to give you portraits. If you come, we will finish it together."
He sent these two messages, and Ailan responded faster.
"Okay! I'll tell Aiya right now. She said she wanted to go out and play yesterday (())!"
“I also want to go and relax. I’ve been depressed by coffee shops in the past two years (呲呲)”
Li Shi smiled and was about to edit the text when he was pulled into a newly created WeChat group by Ai Lan, along with her sister Aiya.
As soon as Aiya entered the group, she immediately said: "Brother Shi, you finally remembered to ask us to play (hehe), I thought you forgot."
Li Shi: "No, I was too busy some time ago."
Ai Lan: "Brother Shi, when do you have time? If we go over, how long can we play?"
Li Shi was in a hurry to go sketching. Of course, the sooner the better. He originally wanted to ask them to come over tomorrow, but considering that it was already night, he said:
"You can come over tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I'll be free the rest of the time."
"It's rare for you to come here. Let's play for a few more days."
"If you are coming from Yangcheng, you can first take the high-speed train to Zhaoyang County. I will wait for you here, and then drive together to Langshan and then to Zhangjiajie. These are five-a scenic spots. In addition to the beautiful scenery, there are also many specialties... Finally, we will go back to Tanzhou for two days, try the delicious milk tea, and eat authentic stinky tofu and flavored shrimp."
The group was silent for a while.
Aya: "I'm going home to pack my luggage!"
A few seconds passed.
Ailan: "I'm already cleaning it up! (呑ya)"
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