Gu Weijing closed his eyes and felt the rich content covered in the "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" provided by the system.
Holding a brush, holding an oil brush, mixing colors, using brushes, focus perspective...
A huge amount of information flows through my mind,
He even had colorful hallucinations in front of his eyes, as if he had walked into the Forbidden City of the Qing Dynasty three hundred years ago and was witnessing with his own eyes how this foreign painter, who was awarded the third rank of Emperor Qianlong and wore a flower feather on his head, painted.
He once obtained Wang Wei's "Notes of Mojie".
That book is more like a literati essay by a traditional scholar-bureaucrat in the Eastern Xia Dynasty, with a strong literary temperament.
Although there are many painting techniques that are refreshing and inspiring,
However, it is still far from being as comprehensive and detailed as this "Summary of the Essence of New Style Painting" in its explanation of the painting techniques of Lang Shining's works.
The works of court painters like Castiglione were passed down in an orderly manner, just like the porcelain from official kilns, and rarely found among the people.
Therefore, the Forbidden City on both sides of the East Xia Dynasty and museums in the United States, Japan, and France have collected more than 90% of Lang Shining's works, and most of them are well protected.
There are many experts and scholars at home and abroad who specialize in the study of new body painting techniques.
However, the painting techniques are restored based on the completed works. It is still based on the artist's own painting experience to figure out and study the works.
The difficulty of the two is completely different.
The rich colors and gorgeous visual appearance of the work are made up of layers of intricate brushwork.
Trying to extrapolate is like inferring from a grand symphony how the fingertips of the first violinist's left hand gently tease the strings as thin as hair.
Not completely impossible, just very difficult.
In history, there are actually many painting techniques that left behind paintings but lost their painting methods.
The double hook and heavy color technique of Chinese painting, certain pigment formulas of Western tempera painting, the light perspective technique of the Renaissance...
Some are because of the war, some are because the techniques are too complicated, some are because of the self-preservation of niche painting schools, or even simply because some pigment ores have been exhausted a hundred years ago.
Later generations of scholars can only be left with futile sighs and racked brains to speculate and recover.
Gu Weijing didn’t know either.
This art theory work is a systematic restoration and summary based on Lang Shining's works. Or maybe in history, the artist Castiglione really wrote down his technical experience, but it was lost in the long river of time without being known to outsiders.
Castiglione's own specific painting techniques were like a black box.
There are many records about the characteristics of his paintings in the literature - "grand scenes, smooth brushwork, delicate paintings, and no single failure" and so on.
There are almost no records of detailed painting methods.
In the memoirs of Nian Xiyao, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty's great painter and labor department, he mentioned a few words that he had learned Western heavy colors from Lang Shining and benefited a lot.
It is also recorded in "Living Records of the Qing Dynasty" that Qianlong once ordered, "Select six smart and delicate children from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to learn line drawing from (Lang) Shining and others. This painting method is quite delicate and refreshing. , cannot be lost.”
Later generations can find these fragmentary historical records, which makes people imagine endlessly.
Gu Weijing is well aware of the preciousness of this system reward.
In the history of Eastern Xia, there were actually very few professional art “textbooks”.
The famous "Painting Classic" and "Six Methods of Painting" are more often just literary works that describe the philosophy of art from a macro perspective, rather than teaching techniques.
I want to learn the real thing.
Otherwise, it will be a good pregnancy.
Otherwise, I would first work with the teacher as a painting boy serving tea and water for five, six, or seventy-eight years. Then he will be an apprentice for a few years, and finally his character will be tested, and he will defeat six generals after passing five levels. It is considered too many for a great painter to have five or six true disciples in his lifetime.
The apprentice wished he was more important than his son.
This is why Mr. Cao’s recruitment of apprentices will be a major event that shakes up the animation world.
In ancient times, if the Wen Zong and the Painting Sect of the scholar-bureaucrat class accepted close disciples, the emperor would probably pay attention to them.
Court painters who made a living by painting were even less willing to teach others their housekeeping skills.
From father to son, son to grandson, hereditary iron rice bowl.
As long as you don’t lose your craftsmanship, you won’t starve to death.
It wasn't until Gu Weijing started learning painting when he was a child that the old man taught him traditional Chinese painting techniques passed down from his family. Even if it wasn't very advanced, even his uncle who didn't do this was not allowed to listen.
This "Abstract of the Essence of New Body Painting", which explains painting techniques in detail, is undoubtedly worth a fortune.
In ancient times, just reading this book thoroughly was enough for a top painter to establish a sect. In martial arts, this is a unique secret book that is enough to cause a bloody storm in the world.
With this book,
There should be a solution to the sense of fragmentation in my fusion painting style that has been bothering me.
Gu Weijing suppressed the excitement in his heart, quickly threw all kinds of random thoughts out of his mind, and calmed down.
he knows,
The system only provides knowledge cards, not one-stop skills.
What is needed between understanding how to draw and actually making the drawing come alive on paper is often extremely tedious practice and hard work.
The tips in "Mojie Notes" are more empirical than technical.
Take mixing cinnabar with your fingers as an example. I found that this trick requires a lot of experience, but after knowing the method, even a kindergarten child can easily do it.
Even so,
In order to adjust the most appropriate colors on the mural of "The Picture of Worshiping the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma", it also took Gu Weijing a full noon.
Berryman's "Human Structural Anatomy" can only produce stunning effects if it is combined with Menzel's drawing skills, which are as terrifying as Level 9.
If it were Gu Weijing's original sketching level, he would immediately become Lu Bu riding a dog, which can only be said to be amazing among middle school students.
If you want to really use the knowledge cards rewarded by the system for your own use, and draw like Lang Shining, you still have to practice.
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The lights in Gu's calligraphy and painting shop were still on at night.
After returning home, Gu Weijing was not in a hurry to go back to his bedroom today.
He just got a new knowledge card. If he doesn't draw something, it will be difficult for him to fall asleep.
Gu Weijing wandered around the front of his small gallery for a while, and finally stopped in front of a wall.
["Bean Blossom of Changchun Atlas"]
[Type: Color on silk (fine reproduction)]
[Artist: Qing Langshining]
[Price: US$1,500/Kats 3.68 million]
Gu Weijing carefully took the scroll off the wall and placed it on the table aside.
This picture scroll is a collection-level cultural relic replica produced by the East Xia Cross-Strait Palace Museum Cultural Relics Collection Exchange Project in 2017.
At that time, in addition to issuing some imitations of famous paintings, they also produced some commemorative lacquerware, fine blue and white porcelain and so on.
Although the collectible print is reproduced and printed by machine, it retains Castiglione's original painting strokes very well. It is completely incomparable to the cheap souvenirs sold in front of tourist attractions.
Each purchase price is more than 800 US dollars.
At that time, Mr. Gu selected a batch of Lang Shining’s works and bought them.
In addition to this "Bean Blossoms from the Immortal Calyx Changchun Album", there are also several "Ju Rui Pictures" and "Emperor Qianlong's Great Reading Pictures" for sale in the store.
The sales are pretty good.
The galleries in Yangon are basically mainly engaged in business with foreign tourists.
European and American tourists come to Southeast Asia. When visiting galleries, in addition to local oil paintings, they all want to buy some oriental scrolls.
But, to be honest,
Just like the Qing Dynasty court did not like traditional oil paintings.
Traditional Chinese paintings that do not focus on realism may be a bit too "exotic" for them.
If you don’t have enough cultural accumulation, you really won’t appreciate it.
Western tourists are very obsessed with some cool, oriental concepts, but at the same time, the threshold for exposure should not be too high.
It would be best if you can make them understand something but not understand it.
For example, cultural concepts such as "ninja" and "bushido" are very popular in Europe and the United States.
The fusion of artistic works is awesome here, without any cultural barriers.
Castiglione's new body painting could handle the three generations of emperors of Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties back then, and now it is even easier to handle tourists from beautiful scenic spots in Europe.
Gu Weijing once saw a blond foreigner covering his mouth and shouting "OMG" more than once in the store. He thought these paintings were so cool.
Not only can they understand it, but they also think that these paintings are full of Eastern Xia style and are rare to see.
It is a pity that the Palace Museum originally copied it in small batches, and now that it is sold, this "Bean Blossom Picture" is the only one left in the gallery.
The effect of imitation prints on calligraphy and painting appraisal is definitely not as good as the originals.
However, the look and feel is still better than the cold electronic album, and it is more convenient than drawing on an iPad.
["Bean Blossoms from the Immortal Calyx Changchun Album"]
[Oil Painting Technique: Lv.7 Master Level 1]
[Chinese Painting Techniques: Lv.6 Professional Painter·Level 3]
[Mood: Simple work]
When Mr. Cao asked him to study and learn the style of Lang Shining's works, Gu Weijing had seen many of his works, and had already appreciated this "Bean Blossom Picture" using calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques.
The results are actually quite surprising.
The mood can only be evaluated as a simple work, which is really nothing.
A similar political assignment was assigned by Emperor Kangxi to the Qing Palace Painting Academy and required paintings to praise auspiciousness. It is completely understandable that the painter did not paint with passion.
It's just this painting technique...
I can’t say that Lang Shining’s paintings are so bad.
His master-level painting skills are not bad at all, and he already belongs to the small group of people at the top of the pyramid.
But compared to Castiglione’s fame and historical status. Especially because of the refreshing and outstanding look this painting brought to Gu Weijing, compared with the strong expectations it generated.
In the systematic analysis, the artist's technique appears to be mediocre.
He was a maniac about seals and a hard-core collector of cultural relics. Emperor Qianlong, who had seen countless famous paintings, was so excited that he wrote a poem in person and said, "I am quite good at taking pictures when I was a boy." painter.
A master is at level one, and a profession is at level three, which is indeed not high.
Take the works that Gu Weijing has admired as an example:
The oil paintings are not as good as those of the female painter Carroll.
Not to mention the level of Chinese painting compared to Mr. Cao Xuan, Mr. Cao Xuan's current youngest disciple, Tang Ning, was much inferior when he was in his twenties.
If you think about it carefully, although this result is unexpected, it is also reasonable.
Castiglione has never been one of the best painters in oil painting.
Not to mention Europe at that time, among the missionaries who came to Beijing, there were only two or three people recorded as having similar painting skills to Castiglione.
When it comes to Chinese painting that pays more attention to talent and artistic charm, how can Castiglione compare to the local painters and scholar-officials of the Eastern Xia Dynasty.
Whether it can be ranked among the top 100 at the same time is actually a bit uncertain.
Some painting methods are born with the charm of 1+1 greater than 2.
Castiglione oil paintings are not top-notch, and Chinese paintings are even less outstanding.
But because of his clever fusion of painting styles, he was favored by three generations of emperors and was selected as one of the ten greatest painters in the 268-year history of the Qing Dynasty. He became a high-ranking official and dignitary who was awarded the third rank.
Gu Weijing prepared pen, ink, paper and research, and stared at this "Bean Blossom Picture".
Castiglione's surviving works include oriental styles using brushes and rice paper, as well as works using linen canvas and Western painting tools.
New body painting is a painting idea and concept that is not limited to painting tools.
The "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" in his mind is divided into upper and lower chapters.
They are "Western Colors", which mainly paints flowers and natural scenery, and pays attention to the oriental composition skeleton and Western light and dark colors, and "Line", which mainly paints buildings and figures, and combines the perspective focus of Western line structures with Eastern connotations and styles. Drawings and Paintings].
Compared with the Western style heavy color chapter, the line drawing chapter has more integration of sketch lines.
Gu Weijing planned to start with simpler aspects.
This "Bean Blossom Picture" is a typical work of "Western Painting Techniques", which only involves two fields: "Chinese Painting Techniques" and "Oil Painting Techniques".
The moment he picked up the brush, the "Abstract of the Essence of New Body Painting" in his mind began to give a large number of painting details.
"The Western method emphasizes color, focusing on oil painting as the basis, and the Chinese method as a supplement. Flowers and birds all use light from the front, diluting or discarding the projection effect. The objects are soft, fresh and lifelike, and the colors are wonderful..."
The so-called Western method of heavy color,
It can be simply understood as using Chinese painting methods to transform Western oil paintings.
The flowers and birds retain the light and dark effects of the oil painting, abandoning the gray tones of large-area projection, making the entire picture look soft in color and in a small and fresh style.
In some cases, you can even boldly use some non-water-soluble mineral pigments for color adhesion.
Of course, this is just the theoretical method of "Western method and heavy color".
Many scholars of later generations have already summarized it, but drawing it is not the same thing. Just like the theory of relativity is there, whether we can build an atomic bomb is still a long way from the Five Constants.
Gu Weijing's previous understanding of these theories was also very superficial.
The paintings he painted were neither east nor west, neither Chinese nor foreign, they were completely different and looked very poor in appearance.
But now, "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" provides not only theory, but also specific operational details.
"To draw bean flowers, first dot the leaves, then jacquard, and finally write the branches. Western oil painting emphasizes proportion, so the branches and leaves cannot be connected to the flower head in a straight line, so fill it with jade-colored curves. The light and dark shadows change, and the center backstroke is used to fill in the veins and leaves as a whole. "
Gu Weijing thought for a moment.
According to the above guidance, when drawing bean flowers, you should first point out the leaves, then draw the petals, and finally use emerald green curves to draw the branches to fill the gaps between them.
In order to express the changes in light and dark shadows, the center of the brush should be used to trace the veins and leaves backwards.
(End of chapter)
