"Of course that's good." Gu Weijing nodded.
Uncle Sakai is very thoughtful.
He was just a middle school student, even a student from an ordinary art academy. He would have been confused when he saw the long list of reviewers' names, let alone distinguishing the pros and cons of these reviewers.
I can only fill in the recommended reviewer options casually like buying a lottery ticket, and pray that I will meet a kinder reviewer.
Then again,
A top liberal arts journal like "Asian Art" is not intended for ordinary art school students or even ordinary professors to submit articles.
"Well, the only disadvantage is that "Asian Art" is a semi-annual publication, and the review time is relatively long. There are only two issues each year. We may have to wait for a while for the page to be published. Just don't be in a hurry to sell your paintings."
Top journals like "Asian Art" are quite aloof and prefer to be short on manuscripts.
Every article has been carefully polished, forming a sharp contrast with those water-based magazines that can't wait to come to the next issue every week.
However, Uncle Sakai judged that it would not be difficult for them to successfully publish the manuscript. It was already close to March. If possible, it would be scheduled for the end of April, and it would be published in more than a month.
This is not a long time at all for a top journal article.
The title of "Asian Art" was worth her wait.
The greater advantage of "Taylor Art Journal" is that it is a European journal. If it wants to develop in Europe in the future, its reputation will not be much lower than that of "Asian Art".
At the same time, the publication cycle is much shorter.
In addition, there is still a gap in academic status with the old magazine "Asian Art".
Sakai Katsuko was worried that Gu Weijing might be anxious about the publication of the paper so that Carroll's oil painting could be realized quickly.
This will be a lot of money.
From the moment Shengzi was born, unless something unexpected happened in his life, he didn't need to worry about money at all, and he didn't care much about money.
But she cannot judge others by herself.
The vast majority of ordinary people in the world would definitely like to have the paper make the painting famous as soon as possible, and then sell the painting.
"No, I won't be in a hurry to sell this painting for the time being. I haven't fully grasped the essence of Carroll's painting, and I'm almost there." Gu Weijing shook his head.
He hasn't had enough of the system rewards yet. If he sells the painting, his copying progress will be greatly regressed.
"You didn't grasp the essence... In fact, you have already painted it very well."
Sakai Katsuko thought for a while and suggested: "It is difficult to grasp the essence of the famous Impressionist paintings with dark backgrounds. However, I have a little trick for color mixing when painting. I don't know if it sounds like it." help."
"Huh?" Gu Weijing was curious.
"You can try using a transparent acrylic board as a color mixing tool. Compare the background color on the canvas and mix the paint. This is what my father taught me when I was just learning to paint, inspired by my mother's choice of cosmetics. Method. It is usually used when trying to figure out the skin color of characters or complex changes in tones, and it is very useful.”
"No, I'll show you."
There were no painting tools in the study room. As Sakai Katsuko spoke, she took out a transparent plastic ruler from her stationery bag.
She unbuttoned the sleeves of her school uniform and folded up the material on her wrists, revealing half of her fair arms.
Shengzi's skin is very white, not as white as snow, but like the medicinal lilac flowers in the park in April and May. It is white and greasy with pink coming out, making it very girly.
She put the transparent ruler on her forearm, took out three short tubes of lipstick from her pocket, and handed them to Gu Weijing.
"This is Chanel Maple Syrup, Coral and Cream Cherry. Mom gave it to me this morning."
"What?" Gu Weijing expressed with a confused expression that he didn't understand what Miss Shengzi was talking about.
"It's the color name of the lipstick. Just think of it as a paintbrush and paint it on the ruler?" Sakai Katsuko suggested.
Gu Weijing took off the cap on the lipstick and twisted out three almost identical lipstick heads.
He studies art, so he is not like many boys who think all lipsticks are the same, but he can still see the subtle differences in the colors of these three lipsticks.
The naming ability of these luxury brands is confusing, but the color is basically red, not much different.
Gu Weijing lightly smeared lipstick on the ruler lying flat on Shengzi's forearm, and immediately understood the meaning of Sakai Shengzi asking him to prepare a transparent acrylic plate for color matching.
The girl's arm is like an oil canvas with a pink and white background and extremely fine texture.
The lipstick is a paintbrush and the ruler is a palette. The three lipsticks, which originally had only slight differences in color, suddenly took on a different look against the backdrop of Miss Sakai's smooth skin.
The color of coral is cooler, the color of cream cherry is warmer, and the color of maple syrup is somewhere in between.
"Well, this is equivalent to a special palette that can bring out the relationship between the background color and the paint at any time like a chameleon. This is a great idea."
Gu Weijing knows the secret with just a few words.
When he paints, he doesn't have high requirements for palettes. He uses the most basic three-ply wood palette that can be bought online on Amazon for five dollars a piece.
But Gu Weijing had heard that some great painters like to customize their own palettes.
Light, dark, and even different shades to number the palette.
David Fuzzelli, a romantic painter who was once selected into the French official salon, is a representative figure of this kind of artist who has high requirements for painting tools.
David once spent 600 francs from a painting dealer in Paris to order 92 palettes of different colors. The color of each palette ranges from light to dark, from pure white to deep black.
This is not because of the painter's special quirks or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The advantage is that the painter can choose different palettes according to different painting backgrounds and complex background character texture colors.
Beginners use white palettes the most because the canvas is white and it is easiest to bring out the true colors of the paints on them.
The background color of oil paintings is not always white.
An oil painting with a black background, the paint you mix on the white palette, and the colors you express on the dark background after you put pen to paper.
Because the contrast between light and dark in the picture is different, the feelings are also slightly different.
Based on this principle, if conditions permit.
For screen colors and rainy days, you can use a gray-brown color palette. When painting the jungle, you can use an emerald color palette, and when the sun sets, you can use a golden-red color palette as the base color to match the paints, making it easier to find the color you want.
Uncle Sakai's idea is a simplified and advanced version of David.
Plastic palettes don’t feel as good with pens as wooden palettes though.
But this kind of transparent acrylic plate can directly put the paint you have mixed on the background color you just finished or even the original painting for comparison.
It will be easier to depict the fine texture brightness and landscape color according to the paint tone of the original work.
"By the way, of these three colors, Gu Weijing, which one do you like better?"
Sakai Katsuko picked up the ruler on her arm, glanced at the boy quietly, and asked casually.
"I don't know lipstick, let alone makeup."
Gu Weijing did not dare to give blind advice to others.
Before Miss Sakai, his only close friend of the opposite sex was Mona.
Mona likes to put on makeup a lot of the time,
She knew that Gu Weijing didn't know much about these things and his family conditions were average. So Mona never asked herself to buy cosmetics for her as birthday gifts or anything like that.
Even the prices of the bottles, jars, lipsticks and eye creams in the bedroom were not disclosed to Gu Weijing, probably because they were worried about putting psychological pressure on Gu Weijing.
In this regard, Miss Mona has always taken good care of Gu Weijing.
However, she usually doesn't consult her little boyfriend's aesthetic opinions, and paints whatever she likes.
Gu Weijing only needs to say good-looking, really good-looking and very good-looking when we go out to play together.
"It doesn't matter, I actually don't understand much. These three lipsticks were given to me by my mother, so I want to ask you boys for your opinion."
I heard that my baby daughter, who has always been bare-faced, finally got the idea to put on makeup to look more beautiful.
In the morning, Mrs. Sakai looked at Katsuko Sakai in a half-happy, half-complex mood for a moment, then selected three lipsticks from the drawer and threw them to her daughter.
After Katsuko Sakai came to the study room early, she hesitated for a long time in front of the small dressing mirror, not sure which lipstick color suited her better.
"I would like to give you a suggestion, just think of it as painting, and use my body suit as a canvas. If you want to paint on me, what color do you think will look better as a match?" Sakai Katsuko lowered her head. , had a haircut.
Skin as a drawing board?
Gu Weijing's mind suddenly flashed into the classic passages from the Eastern Xia biographical film "Liu Rushi" that he had watched more than ten years ago and was highly rated on Douban.
Liu Ru was one of the famous Qinhuai Eight Beauties in the Ming Dynasty. She was famous for her character and character. As a brothel courtesan, she was able to be married to the then literary master Qian Qianyi as a real wife.
On their wedding night, the talented Liu Da took off her wedding dress and asked Qian Qianyi to draw a flower on her smooth back with a brush.
The gauze is low, the skin is as white as jade, and the paintings are ink...
It is another matter that Old Man Qian, Emperor Wenzong of the late Ming Dynasty, was in trouble later in history, and his reputation was as bad as that of Hong Chengchou, the number one traitor of the same period.
At least from an artistic point of view, this shot is quite beautiful.
Gu Weijing glanced at Miss Shengzi's slender waist, shook his head hard, slapped himself twice in his heart, and secretly put aside the thought in his heart that was so fragrant that it made people nosebleed.
He knew that Shengzi couldn't be telling dirty jokes or teasing him at this time.
Ms. Sakai is just giving an example.
Moreover, there is a long tradition in Japan of painting on naked clothing. Historically, there has been a custom of tattooing in coastal areas of Japan. Women like to use the slurry of natural herbal plants to draw brocade, flower and other patterns on their backs and arms.
Later, influenced by the Confucian thought of the Eastern Xia cultural circle that "the hair and skin of the body are given to parents and should not be damaged", men also began to use painting instead of tattooing.
This custom continued until the Edo and even the Meiji period. In the early ukiyo-e paintings that are circulated today, there are a large number of samurai and geisha with tattoos or paintings on their bodies.
The content of the paintings has changed from simple flowers, birds, fish and insects to local myths and classic story images in local dialects such as "The Tale of the Heike".
In modern times, the British Academy of Fine Arts has conducted a survey. The acceptance of body painting in Japan ranks only behind a few European countries such as New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Australia, and first among Asian countries whose overall culture tends to be conservative.
"Cherry cream bar?"
Gu Weijing looked at the three lines of lipstick on the ruler and said, "This color is softer and suitable for your warm pink skin tone, Miss Shengzi."
"Cherry cream."
"Yes, and the name sounds very cute." Gu Weijing scratched his hair.
Sakai Katsuko took out the lipstick with the words [Cherry and Cream] written in small gold letters on it, and lightly applied a circle between the lip lines.
"uh-huh?"
She pursed her lips, showed the color on her lips to the boy, and made a playful nasal sound to ask for his opinion. She looked very cute.
Gu Weijing was slightly dazed.
"Does it look good?"
"nice."
Ms. Sakai is really a nice girl, cool and cute, and she has a common language with her.
Even if it has nothing to do with emotion,
It is also a pleasure to work with such a young lady. Even if she is just sitting quietly next to her, she is as pleasing to the eye as a beautiful big doll.
"By the way, speaking of painting, after the thesis is completed, Shengzi, will you continue to paint in the school's public studio?" Gu Weijing issued an invitation: "You are also copying and studying "The Old Church" by Ms. Carroll, right? , can I invite you to one of my outdoor studios?"
After copying more than a dozen pictures of old churches, Gu Weijing had already mastered them to a very good level simply by looking at the similarity of the brush strokes.
However, in the evaluation of the system panel, the similarity between his current copy work and the original "Old Church" is stuck at around 35%.
The highest one was only 37.6%.
The baseline given by the system for obtaining intermediate treasure chests is 50%, and the last dozen percentage points are like an insurmountable chasm.
Gu Weijing could vaguely feel that fifty percent was a threshold.
Although he still has room to improve in terms of color mixing and pigment control.
But if we really want to achieve a similarity of more than 50%, what we pursue is no longer just the matching of paints and the meticulousness of the brushwork... but a deeper feeling, the overall temperament of the painting.
To explain it in more popular terms, from requiring physical resemblance to spiritual resemblance.
In addition to the appearance of thunderclouds, the main subject of the painting, the old church, and the changing candlelight, are also quite different from the temperament described by this master painter.
If you want to achieve a spiritual resemblance, painting on the spot like the female painter Carroll is the best way.
Gu Weijing knew that Sakai Katsuko had been copying "Old Church" recently, so he suggested that he change his studio to an orphanage like himself.
"It's the Good Luck Orphanage, right? You want to take photos on the spot."
Katsuko Sakai knew this location where Carroll’s original film was filmed, and there was a look of longing in her eyes.
(End of chapter)
