After discussing with Uncle Alai, Gu Weijing decided to temporarily requisition the janitor's hut as a temporary studio for him and Miss Sakai Katsuko.
Painting in the open air in the rain may be seen in romantic love movies, but it is certainly not realistic.
Think about it before and after,
Unless you build a shed, Uncle Alai's house is the most suitable choice.
Looking out from the small window of this concierge, we can almost see the panoramic view of the old church, which is almost the scene in Carroll's painting.
Sakai Katsuko is still on the road,
Gu Weijing and Uncle Alai moved the table by the window to the iron frame bed in the back room, and then placed the two wooden easels on the left and right.
Little girl Jasmine was making tea by the stove.
Gu Weijing looked at this ancient religious building through the window.
In the rain, it stood firmly on the ground beneath its feet, motionless.
In many parts of the Western world, churches are ancient structures that are one with time.
If you don't pay attention to the mottled weathering marks left by time on the masonry surface, just look at the light red dome roof, milky white building walls and light green window trim.
Even though this orphanage is actually older than Grandpa Gu Weijing's grandfather, it even looks a bit fashionable in appearance.
Churches are perhaps one of the most varied and complex buildings in the world.
Therefore, depicting these churches has almost become the best opportunity for oil painters to express their exquisite brushwork.
Each work is like a milestone testing his great skills.
Almost every famous oil painter in Europe who is famous for his landscape paintings has painted this kind of subject matter, which makes works with church themes dazzling in art textbooks.
Onion-style Byzantine churches, round-vault-style Roman churches, Gothic churches with sharp edges and corners that look like bamboo shoots reaching into the sky, retro-elegant Renaissance-style, magnificent Baroque-style structures...
Raphael, Manet, Monet, Henri Matisse, Picasso…
The audience can easily see a complete history of changes in architectural trends and evolution of oil painting techniques in the works of famous artists from different eras.
The old church where the Good Luck Orphanage was originally located, Gu Weijing judged, should belong to the Rococo style church that was popular around the 18th century.
This kind of architectural design has a relatively simple appearance.
Simple and lively, delicate and charming, it likes to use light-toned, fresh and natural-style architectural language and artistically beautiful curves with arcs.
Its biggest advantage is that it costs less to build. Compared with Gothic cathedrals, which are often hundreds of meters high and often take several consecutive centuries as a unit, the construction time is much more time-saving and labor-saving.
Many classic churches from the colonial era followed this style.
Although simple,
However, the heart-shaped windows on the walls of the Good Luck Orphanage are still inlaid with exquisite stained glass windows like those gorgeous European churches.
Many of the stained glass windows actually fell and shattered many years ago. Fortunately, several stained glass windows facing the front of the concierge still retain their old style.
The hazy and dreamy rainbow-like candlelight refracted by the stained glass windows is precisely the most beautiful and eye-catching highlight in the painting "Old Church on a Thunderstorm" by female painter Carroll, and it is also the most difficult part to describe its splendor.
Even with the help of calligraphy and painting appraisal skills, it would be very difficult for him to imitate.
It's not like Castiglione's invention of new body painting. It's more about the difficulty of the painting concept and purely the difficulty of the actual oil painting brushwork.
This is the crown jewel of difficulty in copying oil paintings. It requires a little bit of accumulation of experience in brushwork. It is hard work and hard work that cannot be faked.
The female painter painted the candlelight like a skillful old craftsman who used thousands of dazzling pieces of kingfisher feathers, corals and agate to inlay a crown of emerald green flowers.
The rainbow-like color luster on the gloomy canvas surface of "Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" is completely drawn on bit by bit with meticulous brushwork.
The most obvious manifestation of the so-called master-level oil painting techniques is here.
Not to mention creating it by myself, it was difficult for Gu Weijing to paint the original works that were compared with each other, and it was difficult to paint the divine colors of Carroll himself.
[Current task: Choose to copy an Impressionist work whose oil painting technique has reached Master Level 7. 】
[1. If the copying similarity reaches more than 20%, you will get a junior treasure box. 】
[2. If the copying similarity is over 50%, you will get an intermediate treasure box. 】
[3. Reach a copying similarity of over 90% and obtain a limited reward: Ray Noah - Fragments of various ghosts in the world. This reward can only be harvested once. 】
[The current highest similarity in copying: 39.1%]
"Let's see if we can cross ten percentage points today and get the intermediate treasure chest with the help of real-life painting." He slowly calculated in his mind.
The sound of a car engine came from afar, and a black and brown Mercedes-Benz slid in from the opened courtyard door.
The car door opened, and as the hotel driver wearing white gloves opened the back door for the guest, a slim girl in a dark red skirt appeared in Gu Weijing's field of vision.
Sakai Katsuko took the umbrella from the driver's hand and stood in the yard for a moment, looking at the orphanage in front of her.
It's unbelievable to say,
She wrote a paper about this old church and copied nearly ten of Carroll's original paintings, but this was the first time the girl came to the field.
At this time, it rained heavily and the thunder continued,
However, Sakai Katsuko felt as calm as if she was reunited with an old friend she had known for many years.
"Katsuko, here."
Gu Weijing ran out of the concierge carrying a gas lamp and stood under the eaves waving to Sakai Katsuko.
The girl turned her head, a smile bloomed on her face, and ran towards Gu Weijing in small steps.
As she approached, Gu Weijing was amazed that Sakai Katsuko looked extra beautiful tonight.
The other party did not wear the usual conservative school uniform with a shirt and dark jacket, but changed into a small red skirt that highlighted her figure.
She didn't wear stockings either, and her plump long legs were exposed.
Katsuko Sakai probably also wore some makeup which is rare.
Compared with Kou Kou, Ms. Sakai's makeup skills seem to be a little unsophisticated, but it can better show off the girl's natural beauty.
Her cheeks were soft, and the dark eye shadow highlighted the layers of her already beautiful facial features.
The light from the gas lamp gave her a warm glow.
This makes Katsuko Sakai look innocent and sexy, as if she has suddenly grown up from the schoolgirl girl next door, and has become more charming like a mature woman.
Because of running,
Shengzi's face was a little flushed, but her skin was as fair as jade.
"The weather is really nice today, Gu Jun."
Sakai Katsuko walked up the small steps of the concierge, gently pulled Gu Weijing's sleeve, and whispered in the other person's ear, with a slight excitement in her tone, as if she was a little girl who flew out of the golden cage for the first time. lark.
"The weather is great?"
Gu Weijing looked at the dark clouds in the sky, which were as low as covering the church steeple, and joked with a smile.
Miss Sakai lowered her head, her cheeks suddenly turning redder.
The words just left my mouth,
Sakai Katsuko felt that she was really clumsy for saying such incomprehensible words.
The phone call with Taro Komatsu before departure filled Katsuko Sakai's heart with the lightness of letting go of her burden.
She is very happy now, her eyes are clear, and she has thousands of things she wants to say.
Sakai Katsuko wanted to say that today is really a good time to copy oil paintings. She wanted to say that this is the first time I sneaked out from under the eyes of adults. She wanted to say that I am very happy to copy with you. She wanted to say that the female painter Carol-senior It was probably in such weather that I completed the painting "Old Church in a Thunderstorm"...
Seeing Gu Weijing's face, countless words came to his lips, and they somehow turned into one sentence, "The weather is really nice today."
She thought it sounded stupid.
"Uh..." Sakai Katsuko wanted to explain.
"You're right, the weather is really nice today." Gu Weijing suddenly smiled, looked into Sakai Katsuko's eyes, then looked up at the lightning that had just flashed across the sky, and repeated, "It's really nice. .”
Sakai Katsuko suddenly felt that she didn't have to explain anymore.
So the girl pursed her lips again and just stood there laughing.
"Gu Jun, let's start writing."
Katsuko Sakai walked into Uncle Alai's concierge cabin and saw two transparent acrylic palettes placed on the window sill, and smiled knowingly again.
The original remains of "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm" are not displayed in the room.
The orphanage does not have the conditions to store such precious works of art. For Sakai Katsuko and Gu Weijing, two people who have already copied many original paintings, it is not too much of a hindrance.
Ms. Carroll’s original painting has been etched in their minds.
Moreover, there is no need to rely too much on the original work. The biggest advantage of copying at the exact location where Carroll painted is that the living painting actually exists in front of you.
As long as you look out the small window of the concierge at the rainy night, you will see a real picture of the old church on a thunderstorm day.
"Wait a minute, Jasmine?"
Gu Weijing shouted towards the room.
The little girl in the blue skirt ran over from the stove in the back room carrying two small black tea bowls.
Jasmine placed a tea bowl next to Gu Weijing, and looked at Shengzi Sakai on the side with a pair of dark eyes, half yearning and half inferiority complex.
In her limited life, the little girl had only seen the dirty dolls in the orphanage and the occasional volunteers who came here to provide volunteer services.
She has never seen such a noble, elegant and beautiful big sister.
Jasmine has reached the age where she vaguely knows beauty.
Beauty has an aura that is both heavenly and compelling.
It's like an ugly duckling meets a white swan. Even though Katsuko Sakai is a kind of girl with a very gentle temperament, Jasmine is still compared to her like a small piece of black coal, and she is so inferior that she can't hold her head up.
"The bowl has been scalded..."
When Jasmine saw Katsuko Sakai falling on the edge of the old tea bowl in the orphanage, she lowered her head in embarrassment, rubbed her right hand hard on her skirt, and then carefully handed the tea bowl to the other person.
"Clean, sister, not dirty..."
"Thanks."
Sakai Katsuko smiled gently at the little girl, took the tea bowl, and placed it by the window.
"Sister, you are so beautiful. I wish I could be half, no, one-third as beautiful as you in the future." Seeing that Sakai Katsuko was not cold and unapproachable, Jasmine became a little bolder and said with envy.
"You also have a pair of beautiful eyes, I'm very envious."
Sakai Katsuko touched Jasmine's hair and encouraged her softly.
Jasmine's face suddenly turned red. She lowered her head shyly and wanted to run away, but was held back by Gu Weijing.
"Moli, remember what I told you before, the second window from left to right, if you can't reach it, ask Uncle Alai to help you."
Gu Weijing handed over an umbrella and whispered a few words to little girl Jasmine.
The little girl nodded, picked up her umbrella, and disappeared into the night.
After about a few minutes,
The flickering light from a candlestick slowly lit up in the church.
The dancing candlelight in the rainy night is as solemn as a religious ceremony, just like the scenes painted by the female painter Carroll.
"Let's get started now."
Gu Weijing began to mix turpentine and linseed oil at a ratio of 1:1 and began to dilute the paint.
The rain has never stopped or slowed down, and the light from the gas lamp has a warm temperature, shining in the small studio that serves as the concierge.
The young men and women were next to each other, and the skin on their arms occasionally touched each other, carrying each other's body temperature, but no one spoke.
The two of them were enjoying the tacit silence, concentrating on copying each other's memories.
Gu Weijing gently mixed a little bit of ivory black and Windsor purple on the acrylic plate with a spatula, and held it in front of his forehead.
He found that he did not need to place a transparent palette on the background of the drawing board to control the shades of colors.
At this time, the real world outside the window is like a vivid canvas. Gu Weijing can even completely separate this small piece of plastic and try to print and blend the prepared paints with the real colors.
It is for this reason,
Instead, Gu Weijing slowly began to become confused, and he hesitated slightly when using his pen smoothly.
Impressionism is the aesthetics of capturing light,
Capturing the ever-changing light and color in the brushstrokes is the eternal artistic pursuit of the Impressionist painters.
This light usually refers to sunlight. Therefore, for a while, Impressionism was even called the Sunshine School.
Carroll went in the opposite direction, using psychedelic and gorgeous brushwork to paint a scene of a thunderstorm.
But it never changes from its roots,
The soul of this painting is still light. The candlelight mixes with the lightning flowing in the sky, which seems to be a gorgeous aurora sealed in amber.
When copying the original work, Gu Weijing didn't feel anything.
But at this time,
But he clearly felt a lack.
Gu Weijing tapped the acrylic palette lightly with his fingertips, thinking and hesitating, as if making some kind of decision.
His sixth sense told him that if he wanted to get the intermediate treasure chest rewarded by the system, just keep drawing like this - it wasn't enough.
Gu Weijing reopened the virtual panel and found the charity wealth exchange panel.
[Experience exchange panel:]
[Currently allocable free experience points: 3105]
(End of chapter)