Myanmar in early March is not the rainy season in Southeast Asia in the traditional sense.
But the rain in Yangon is like the tears of a passionate girl, and it always comes when it comes.
On the Dulwich campus in the rain, the European-style auditorium building made of black bricks and white lights flashing in the windows is like a black-and-white old film, flowing with the unique texture of old film from the golden era of the early 20th century.
There was melodious symphonic music coming from the auditorium.
The YouTube video played on the 350-inch large laser projector in the center of the auditorium is coming to an end.
on the screen,
The protagonist of the short film, played by Jerry, a young man with blond hair, is crying silently while holding an old Doberman pinscher that is about to be euthanized in a stray pet rescue center.
The slogan "To love animals is to love ourselves" (To love animals is to love ourselves) is printed on the screen as the slogan of the micro film.
"Teachers and students, what was just played was the animal protection short film "Lost Love" starring Jerry Lorenz, a 13th grader."
The female host said passionately to the crowd of classmates.
"In the Yangon International Student Film Festival that just ended this Wednesday, the micro-film won the [Excellent Compassion Award] and received a special report from the Yangon Economic Weekly. Let us now applaud the outstanding students."
Mona, who presided over the commendation ceremony, put down the prompt card in her hand and clapped gently with a smile on her face.
Following the lead of the Women's Student Union President,
So in the auditorium, the students of Dulwich applauded like thunder and talked a lot.
"Boss, you're awesome!" Jerry's boys on the school team cheered vigorously and clapped their hands vigorously.
"So caring. I almost cried when I saw him. The dog is so pitiful."
The sentimental girl wiped her tears hard when she saw the scene on the screen where the Doberman was put into the pet nitrogen chamber at the end.
This nitrogen chamber is specially designed for euthanasia of elderly pets.
As the nitrogen content in the cabin increases, the dogs will fall into a coma without pain. The price on Amazon is as high as 2,500 US dollars, and it is sponsored by Jerry’s father’s company.
"This time he showed his face. It's amazing. I think Jerry has the style of a Hollywood star. He wears perfume every day when he goes to school. Our local boys don't even have this kind of upbringing habit and are not a gentleman at all." Jerry The attention of the little fans is more focused on the handsome blond guy.
"Tch, I don't think this short film is very good."
Some people secretly expressed their displeasure at the school’s mobilization of students: “Didn’t our school’s film club shoot a lot of short films throughout the year? A special commendation meeting was held.”
"Idiot, the point is not the micro-movie, it's love - you know love!"
A classmate next to him immediately refuted him: "Can our school's film club win an award at the International College Student Film Festival? Can reporters do special reports? This can all be written in the school's admissions brochure for the next year. You must be able to do it , the school will also hold a special commendation meeting for you."
This is the scene of Dulwich International School’s campus commendation ceremony.
Jerry Lorenz, a 13th-grade student, participated in the filming of a charity micro-movie, which was surprisingly effective.
Not only did it win an award at the Yangon College Student Film Festival, there was even a reporter's special feature entitled "Facing Death - The Last Journey of Companion Pets", reporting on the pet euthanasia charity project founded by Jerry's classmate.
Even if it's just a one-line, hundred-word newsletter the size of a tofu cube on the seventh page of the newspaper.
But "Yangon Economic Weekly" is a serious mainstream media affiliated with the city government, not a gossip tabloid or a worthless self-media.
This is of great significance to a private aristocratic school like Dulwich College.
The school board decided to hold a special commendation meeting in the afternoon, and even the European headquarters of Dulwich College International Education Group sent a congratulatory email.
In this chaotic and noisy public place,
As usual, Gu Weijing sat in the corner of the senior group's seats.
Rather than making the short film, he was still thinking more about yesterday's copying.
The web page on the IPAD he is holding is the home page of "The Shape of Power: A Special Exhibition of Castiglione's New Body Paintings" produced by the National Palace Museum in Taipei in the Eastern Xia Dynasty in 2017. From time to time, he picks out a few paintings to enlarge and appreciate them.
The painting methods of Lang Shining's works can be roughly divided into two categories.
On the whole, the works are still created using the "Western heavy color" technique of Chinese brushwork as the body and Western colors as the use.
This kind of work is mainly about flowers, birds, vegetation and landscapes, and the painting method is relatively simple to learn.
Once you realize it, you will be able to understand it 70-80% of the time.
Based on this, after adding accurate sketch line shapes and exquisite focus perspective proportion style, it can still completely retain the oriental charm, cleverly integrating the essence of Chinese painting, oil painting and sketch into the "line" "Drawing" painting method.
Compared with "Western heavy color" painting, it is much more difficult.
If Western-style heavy-color painting is like knitting a sweater, it knits the two threads of Chinese painting and oil painting together.
The line drawing is like the maid Qingwen mending Jia Baoyu's fur in "A Dream of Red Mansions", using the extremely thin "peacock gold thread" of sketch to carve patterns on the clothes.
In addition to the difficulty of this painting method, it also requires higher proficiency in using the pen.
"Chinese painting is the charm, oil painting is the flesh and blood, and sketching is the skeleton. There is nothing wrong with any of the three."
Gu Weijing quickly summarized the key points of line drawing.
Don't look at the fact that there is only a sketch. Compared with the Western style heavy color painting, the look and feel of the line drawing is better, and the characters and architecture are more realistic by more than one order of magnitude.
Sketching is called the basis of modern painting.
If your ambition goes beyond flowers and grass, and you want to accurately restore buildings and characters, you will definitely need the help of sketch lines.
When drawing a small flower or grass like a bean flower picture, if the lines are not three-dimensional and the proportions are not restored enough, it is actually nothing.
The audience will never regard bean curd as cauliflower.
However, architectural paintings and figure paintings, especially after incorporating oil painting techniques, will look like but not like each other if the proportions and structure are wrong.
Then maybe the audience will get goosebumps after watching it.
When a painting is very similar to a natural, living person, but not completely similar, it will immediately produce an uncontrollable emotional reaction of disgust in some people's hearts.
In psychology, this artistic impression is called the "uncanny valley" effect.
Oil painting teachers will say, either you should follow the realistic genre, or you should not be realistic at all. You must not be half and half. This statement is correct, but it is not completely absolute.
Art masters who are truly skilled in the realm of art can proactively incorporate this theory into their works long before it is studied by psychologists.
For example, the peerless old scumbag Picasso,
After he got tired of playing with a certain lover or wife, he liked to use this method to vilify and demonize them in his works.
The most typical example is one of his works that was auctioned for US$78 million in 1997.
Picasso deliberately painted the leg structure and bones of his second wife, a beautiful Russian ballerina who made a living as a dancer, incorrectly and deformed to make the audience look fearful, in order to express his feelings about "women in marriage." The feeling of disgust.
However, Gu Weijing is still far from the level of a great artist. If he wants to forcefully play with such advanced techniques, he can only imitate others, and he will definitely end up at his grandma's house.
What he pursues now is still the most basic painting portrait.
Gu Weijing carefully studied the two representative line drawings of Lang Shining's realistic figures in the exhibition, "The Grand Review of Emperor Qianlong" and "The Picture of Concubine Xuan".
He analyzed the new body painting techniques in his mind, slowly analyzed the beauty of these paintings, and considered how he should imitate them.
If you want to participate in the Lion City Art Exhibition, figures and buildings are indispensable.
The composition of the picture designed by collector Chen Shenglin for himself was so exquisite that Gu Weijing did not want to give up the original painting plan and paint some simple flowers and grass instead.
What a shame.
Therefore, line drawing is a level that you must pass.
The perspective structure and proportional lines of sketch can be closer to the scenes seen by the human eye in nature, and have inherent advantages in the ability to restore scenes.
This is the quickest way to catch the first glance of the audience and judges.
Chinese painting pays more attention to charm and essence, which requires cultural accumulation and careful appreciation to see it.
It was quite difficult to integrate the two.
At this time, Mr. Cao instructed me to practice a lot of line drawing and sketching, which combines sketching techniques and line drawing techniques, and the effect was reflected.
Gu Weijing has drawn hundreds of line drawing sketches, and has already experienced the integration of Chinese painting line drawing and sketching techniques. At this time, he can learn Lang Shining's painting methods much faster.
"So Boring...Help!!! (I'm so bored, help!)"
Gu Weijing was watching an art exhibition when a message came from his IPAD that someone had sent him a new message on social media.
He put away the album, opened the software, and found that it was a message from Miss Sakai.
In addition to writing papers and going to the studio to paint with Gu Weijing,
After Katsuko Sakai transferred to Dulwich College, she almost never participated in any group activities in the school, and she did not even join the grade group or class group on Whatsapp.
In addition to advanced classes,
She almost maintained a zero-social attitude with other classmates in the same year.
Therefore, there have been rumors in the school that Miss Sakai is quite aloof and does not like to make friends with others.
Miss Katsuko once complained to him, which was what her mother asked her to do.
Mrs. Sakai believes that since she is not from the same world, there is no benefit in getting too close to these Burmese natives.
It is estimated that everyone will not see each other again after half a year, and it will be sad to make friends at all.
Moreover,
My daughter is simple-minded. You treat others as friends, and others regard you as a way to get rich.
If in the future these people lick their faces and beg to come to your door and worry about whether or not to help, it is better to keep a distance as much as possible from the beginning, so that you are good and I am good and everyone is good.
Cold yet shrewd, cruel yet realistic, Mrs. Sakai's signature way of doing things.
Think about it this way,
The two requirements that Mrs. Sakai set for herself in that original conversation made her really think highly of herself.
"I have been listening to the Emerald Lecture with my mother at sea for half an hour, and I am almost asleep." Sakai Katsuko made a sleepy expression.
Gu Weijing remembered that Miss Shengzi was dragged by her mother to play at the beach with Komatsu Taro today and did not come to school at all.
When it comes to a student like Katsuko Sakai, who can be chosen from one of the top ten art academies in the world, it is surprising that he will not become a great artist in twenty years, which is "hurt to Naka Nagai".
Being willing to transfer to Dulwich College in Yangon is a sign of smoke coming from the ancestral grave.
The school board wished that she could be worshiped as their little ancestor.
School rules and disciplines are just a joke to others. If they don't want to come to school, there will definitely be no one who doesn't want to take care of them.
Gu Weijing closed the chat software and opened Sakai Katsuko's homepage on Instagram, and sure enough he saw that she had just updated her photo wall.
Judging from the photo records,
Katsuko Sakai went to the seaside port to collect shells in the morning.
The Aman Hotel has a large private golden beach in Yangon Port. Whenever the tide goes out, seashells of all sizes are left on the beach.
The photo with the most likes had more than 10,000 views within a few hours.
The temperature in Yangon is already quite high in March.
In the photo, Katsuko Sakai is wearing a one-piece beach swimsuit, with her straight thighs and arms exposed, her bare feet stepping on a sea clam shell the size of a military drum, facing the sea, and the other The calves are raised high back.
I don’t know if it was because Katsuko Sakai just swam or because it was raining lightly.
Her hair was wet and stuck to the back of her neck, but her skin was very white and moist. Her plump body formed a clear contrast with the golden beach and blue sea.
The photo of this scene is really like a marble statue of Venus, the goddess of beauty, on the seaside in a romantic oil painting. It is really beautiful.
Gu Weijing smiled, secretly liked the photo, and continued to scroll down the Instagram along with the timeline.
Ms. Sakai had paella at a beachside restaurant at noon, and went to sea with her mother in the afternoon.
Counting the time, she should be on a treasure ship when she sent a message to herself complaining that she was bored to death.
Gambling boats operating gambling houses on the unregulated high seas are common in the world and can be found in all countries, but the emerald treasure boats are unique to Myanmar.
Jade sales are a very profitable industry and are also the mainstay of Myanmar's economy in addition to tourism.
According to legal regulations, all Myanmar jadeite mines are state-owned, and most of the private jadeite sales you can see are illegal.
So some have treasure ships specially provided for the rich.
Private mine owners will transport top-quality jadeite ores to cruise ships registered in Cayman or Panama, and then sail them to the high seas to open some unregulated private sales for guests to choose their favorite jadeites.
For example, in the photo Ms. Sakai just posted five minutes ago,
There is a manservant-like crew member next to Komatsu Taro. He is holding a large plate of high-quality jade rings, bracelets and peace jade plaques. He should be explaining the beauty of each piece of jewelry to the guests on the ship with foaming at the mouth. .
Sakai Katsuko’s INS caption is very cute - I pretend to listen but I was bored to die (I tried really hard to listen, but I was bored to death).
(End of chapter)
