Kou Kou took out her phone from her pocket, opened INS, and clicked on the homepage account named [Shengzi] in her follow list.
"Have you heard of the [Shwedagon Pagoda Fresco Restoration] historic site restoration project? This is the most important project this year for Myanmar officials to enhance their international image. The host of the project is the master painter Cao Xuan."
She stuck out her tongue: "During the winter vacation, my father also received an order to strengthen police security patrols in the Shwedagon Pagoda area. I heard that when this world-class artist came to pick him up at the airport, , several relevant ministerial-level senior officials were all present in person, which was very grand.”
Kou Kou's father is a local senior police inspector in Yangon. He is considered a senior police officer and is naturally aware of such important government projects.
"Mr. Cao Xuan?"
Mona wrinkled her nose slightly.
Even if she doesn't paint Chinese paintings, Cao's name is as influential in the Asian art circle as the Beatles are in the rock field, making her a household name.
But apart from surprise, she felt nothing else.
Such an artistic godfather is too far away from her daily life.
It's so far away that even with Mona's reason, she can't even think of yearning for it.
"What does this have to do with Sakai Katsuko transferring to another school?"
"She mentioned in the photo wall on Instagram that she was one of the 47 artists invited for the project. She was only a teenager and could work with a big shot like Cao Xuan. Hmph... I have to seize the opportunity. Even if I can’t get this chick, I have to at least get some of her handwriting.”
Kou Kou stared at the easel in front of her, her eyes bright like a tabby cat that saw a fish.
"This is the gold mine in front of us. In ten or twenty years, when Miss Sakai has become an internationally renowned painter, maybe one painting can be exchanged for a house with a garden."
Mona looked at the easel in front of her where people kept stopping to look at it, and sighed in her heart.
The class gap is so profoundly displayed in front of this proud female student union president.
Everyone is the same age, wearing the same school uniform, and painting in the same studio.
Even Mona is a popular figure in school.
But she knew clearly,
This was just a brief intertwining of the fate of Miss Sakai and ordinary people like them by chance.
Mona's life plan is just to become a rich and refined wife who can be content with a small amount of money, marry a decent husband, have two children, and live a leisurely and elegant petty bourgeoisie life.
And with Sakai Katsuko’s painting talent, her family background, and the opportunities she can get.
The spotlight of the entire world of art awaits her in the near future.
All people need to do is just go step by step.
Fate is always kind to some people.
"Mona, I've been looking for you for a long time. Are you here?"
A furry arm suddenly rested on Mona's shoulder, interrupting her thoughts and sentiments.
Mona turned around and saw the tall Jerry.
Jerry's light blond hair was dazzling in the sun.
In fact, his natural hair is not blond, but he is happy to show his half-"noble" Germanic ancestry among his Burmese classmates.
So my hair was always dyed blonde.
It turns out that many girls in the school think he looks very sexy.
In addition, Jerry's living habits are also very European.
Every day before going to school, I spray a large amount of special cologne on my shoulders, collar, armpits, etc.
Jerry thought it would make him smell "stronger", like a foreign man.
At this moment, Mona felt that she was enveloped by a strong smell of fermented herbs.
She resisted the urge to sneeze, took two steps back slightly, and shook her arms off her shoulders.
"Is something wrong?" she asked with a frown.
"Miss Mona, can I invite you to the cat cafe this afternoon? There are seven lovely British short-tail cats there."
A bright and loving smile appeared on Jerry's face.
He was a little disappointed when he saw Mona and showed a heart-felt expression, but he immediately added: "This is not a date, it's just a social welfare project introduced by my father. There is a team of college student directors who want to film a story about a newly adopted loving stray cat. The micro-movie will be uploaded to YouTube when the time comes. This kind of social activity is a bonus when applying for college. I also have a quota for the heroine of the micro-movie here."
Jerry's tone was seductive.
Many foreign universities have rigid requirements for social service hours when applying.
Generally speaking, if you want to be fooled, you can ask an intermediary agency to issue a certificate and find a cooperative NGO to stamp it and you are considered qualified.
The micro-movies that Jerry refers to are beyond the scope of ordinary qualifications.
It's the kind of extra points.
If the micro-movie can have hundreds of thousands of views, it can even be glorified as "having a certain social influence" on your resume.
Especially the theme of animal protection.
The admissions teams of prestigious foreign universities are very fond of this kind of social activities, which can save you a lot of trouble when applying for college.
"Sorry, Jerry, I want to continue finishing my portfolio in the studio this afternoon. It's not very convenient."
Mona did feel tempted for a moment, but she still refused.
Two people go to a pet shop to shoot a short film together. What is the difference between this and a date?
Mona was not stupid about what Jerry, a playboy popular with girls in the past, was thinking about.
Be soft-spoken and soft-handed.
If some people in the school are willing to participate in such a good project with social welfare points, why should they look for it?
Those money-grubbing girls on campus who use their boyfriends as mobile wallets as soon as they part their legs may not care.
But Mona is not such a girl.
"Okay, what about next weekend?"
The sunny smile on Jerry's face remained unchanged.
"forget it."
Mona still shook her head coldly. She threw the empty coffee cup in her hand into the trash can, turned around and walked towards her half-painted drawing board.
Koko looked at Jerry who was walking away, looked at Mona's back, and sneered.
"Tch, talk back."
Mona returned to a still life painting she was halfway through. After hesitating for a long time, she took out her mobile phone from her pocket and found Gu Weijing, whom she had not contacted for a long time.
"You haven't been to the studio for how many days! Did you know that the school recruitment meeting is coming soon?"
She was halfway through typing and then deleted it again.
I'm not his mother,
Who cares about his life and death?
"I'm in the school studio on Sunday afternoon. Would you like to come over?"
Mona hesitated for a moment and felt that this was too deliberate.
She thought for a while and deleted the second half of the sentence.
"I paint in the school studio on Sunday afternoon."
Mona read the short message several times and finally pressed the send button.
…
Gu Weijing didn't notice the new message on his phone.
At this time, he was in the courtyard of the Good Luck Orphanage.
Gu Weijing frowned and stood in front of the drawing board, looking at the canvas in front of him.
Under the guidance of curator Tonks, I came up with the idea of creating an art work that is compatible with Chinese painting and oil painting styles.
He decided to start writing immediately.
Gu Weijing gave up the impressionistic style of color point mixed color painting that he preferred, and decided to adopt a traditional oil painting method that favored a classical style - abandoning the beauty of abstract visual impressions and pursuing precision in brushstrokes and rigor in lines as his top priority. , used to match the oriental meticulous painting style.
This is also something that can't be helped.
It’s not that Impressionist painting is bad.
Impressionism itself is a product influenced by Eastern painting styles, pursuing spiritual enjoyment and the overall macroscopic impression of the picture.
The art principles and the traditional freehand painting method of Chinese painting actually go well together.
However, he was still quite sober,
Matching is matching, and you must also consider your own abilities.
He knew that with his current understanding of impressionism and freehand painting styles, he would definitely not be able to master such high-end painting techniques.
Impressionism's pictures themselves are more like stream of consciousness.
Freehand painting pursues divine will more than pursuit of substance.
The difficulty of blending these two painting styles is similar to mixing two invisible and massless gases in the void with both hands.
To achieve this step, it is impossible for non-master-level painting skills.
With my level of painting as a professional painter, the final result will definitely be outrageously "abstract".
If you want to draw a fusion painting,
With Gu Weijing's current level of painting, there is not much room for free choice.
After thinking about it again and again,
He decided to take the easiest method at present.
The rigorous line structure of Chinese meticulous painting is used as the backbone, and the colors and brushstrokes of oil painting are used as flesh and blood details.
In the end, a painting with a realistic style was created.
Realism is always the easiest way to draw.
This technique is definitely not simple, but it is definitely more feasible than trying to combine the essence of impressionism and freehand painting.
Since there is no way to pursue spirit, we can only pursue form.
He also thought about the theme of the painting.
The inspiration comes from Carroll's "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm".
He also used the Good Luck Orphanage, which he had already painted, as the courtyard background, but added Jasmine and other children and several volunteers of different ages as the main characters in the picture.
With Gu Weijing's current ability, characters are a better choice for expressing emotions than pure architecture.
The light is taken during the day.
Bright sunshine is also easier to portray vividly than the changing colors of a thunderstorm.
In theory, this shouldn't be difficult to draw.
Gu Weijing has been standing in front of the drawing board for six or seven hours since he arrived at the Lucky Orphanage this morning.
Now,
The completed work was placed in front of him.
The church under the sun, children running, volunteers with armbands...
The whole work seemed decent at first glance, but when he got a little more serious, Gu Weijing discovered a problem.
"weird."
Regardless of the process of painting or the final effect of the painting, the biggest feeling I have with Gu Weijing is the word weird.
He threw the calligraphy and painting appraisal skills one by one.
[Title of work: "Good Luck Orphanage under the Sun"]
[Sketch Technique: 1705/5000]
[Oil painting techniques: 1302/5000]
——__——__——__——
[Chinese painting techniques: 609/5000]
[Emotion: Perfunctory]
The emotional evaluation is just perfunctory, almost the worst rating his work has received in recent times.
Gu Weijing was not surprised by this.
Not to mention empathizing with the characters on the painting, halfway through the painting, he was tortured by the weird feeling and almost couldn't continue painting.
Just because this was his first try, he wanted to start and finish.
Gu Weijing then pinched his nose and finished the painting.
He found that the data column of the virtual panel this time was different from the previous ones.
There is a rugged dark dividing line like shark teeth, which cuts the gap between sketching, oil painting techniques and Chinese painting techniques.
It seems that the system does not recognize that this is a fusion painting. It only thinks that the two painting methods are like two pieces of plasticine of different colors, forcibly pinched together with external force.
From an artistic point of view, this is definitely a very failed painting.
The look and feel is even worse than a simple oil painting.
Gu Weijing shook his head.
It is obvious that his fine brushwork lines and oil painting techniques have reached the level of a professional painter.
Logically speaking,
There shouldn't be any big mistakes,
But the final artistic effect is very weird.
If a picture is regarded as a beauty.
Gu Weijing originally hoped that she would have the beauty of the East and the charm of the West, which is gentle and delicate.
But the final effect is like a painted-skinned female ghost.
The left half of her face grew into Lin Daiyu, and the right half of her face grew into Sophie Marceau.
This is a bit scary
There is nothing wrong with either technique alone.
merge together,
But it turned into a different person.
He was not discouraged, even though the painting did not meet his expectations.
But with such a high-end painting method as fusion painting, it would be strange for Gu Weijing to succeed at once.
"Just, why is this happening?"
Failure to resolve the disharmony in the picture is almost a death sentence for this painting method.
Gu Weijing agonized in the yard for a long time, but could not come up with the final solution.
"Wait, I'm stupid."
He suddenly realized that he was different from before. Gu Weijing also had a teacher now.
Instead of brooding here, ask the experts.
…
"Professor Lin, can you give me some advice on my painting? I'm encountering difficulties."
Beijing time is more than one hour behind Myanmar time.
Professor Lin Tao, who had just woken up from his nap, heard the first sentence from Gu Weijing's phone call when he heard the straight-to-the-point question from the other side.
"Oh, what's your problem?"
Professor Lin Tao did not refuse.
As Gu Weijing's current "teacher", Professor Lin Tao feels that Mr. Cao's decision to close his disciples is a bit hasty.
Overall, he was very satisfied with the child Gu Weijing.
Serious attitude, smart talent, rapid progress.
If you teach a student who is not enlightened and has no artistic ability, it is easy to become more and more popular the more you teach, but if you teach a good student like Gu Weijing, the more you teach, the more you like him.
Even though it was not the weekly teaching time, Professor Lin Tao did not feel that Gu Weijing was disturbing him.
"I sent you the photo."
Gu Weijing said.
Professor Lin Tao took out the iPad with a larger screen and looked at the pictures sent by Gu Weijing.
Huh?
The first time he saw Gu Weijing's canvas, he was shocked.
(End of chapter)
