How did I become an old artist?

Chapter 110 Perfect!The key step for the finishing touch!
What Zhao Chen outlined with blue and white was only the outermost outline of the porcelain.

It's like creating an artboard.

White porcelain and blue lines form a minimalist artwork.

Moreover, the blue and white outlines of the five works created by Zhao Chen are not the same.

Gooseneck bottles, chicken cups, porcelain bowls, discs, and plum vases.

This operation shocked everyone even more.

In this porcelain exchange competition, Zhao Chen was the only one who created several completely different pieces of porcelain.

In order to ensure that a finished product can be produced, other craftsmen make exactly the same porcelain blanks, and the techniques are also exactly the same.

And Zhao Chen, in such a live broadcast competition, was completely free to create different porcelains with unique techniques.

This incident has caused a lot of controversy.

"This Chinese craftsman is too courageous!"

"Does his porcelain only have a few simple lines? It's too simple!"

"Except for a better shape, there is nothing special about it!"

"It should be because I feel that I can't win later, so I want to use this method to sensationalize the public!"

Everyone is not optimistic about Zhao Chen.

This competition invited many internationally renowned masters of porcelain art, and these people are also paying attention to Zhao Chen's creative techniques.

They knew that what Zhao Chen wanted to create was not such a simple porcelain, but a rare Chinese porcelain—Doucai.

But doucai needs to be glazed twice, the first time is blue and white glaze, and the second time is mineral glaze, which is very difficult to fire.

One failure and the piece fails.

Zhao Chen's courage and self-confidence undoubtedly amazed the porcelain experts who were reviewing.

"Is it glazed twice? It's still a different glaze. It's very difficult!"

"It's not just a matter of technique, but also a thorough understanding of the material and glaze of porcelain before it can be successfully fired."

"If successful, his work will be amazing."

"It also depends on the patterns he drew and the overall shape of the porcelain. Doucai is not so easy to make!"

The insights of the experts are deep.

They know that the craftsmanship of fighting colors is extremely high, but it is also extremely difficult.

Just using different glazes twice is enough to stump most craftsmen.

Zhao Chen's works have attracted the attention of many people.

That night, Zhao Chen put the porcelain in the kiln and chose a high temperature of 1300 degrees for firing.

The official kiln porcelain is fired at low temperature many times, but the fighting color is completely different. The first time it needs to be shaped at a high temperature of 1300 degrees, and the second time the temperature is about 800 degrees.

Different glazes require different firing effects.

Zhao Chen was completely intoxicated in his creation.

The birth of a top-notch work of art often requires great efforts of the artist.

Another day later, the porcelain has been fired, and all five pieces of porcelain are perfect.

He started the most critical step, drawing the blank!

Zhao Chen is holding a special paintbrush, the tip of this kind of brush is very hard and very thin, it can be stained with enamel to outline on the porcelain.

This is the hardest step.

Ordinary bucket colors use mineral pigments, which are better for painting.

And Zhao Chen chose enamel glaze as the material, painted on the blue and white porcelain, and then put the porcelain directly into the kiln for firing.

Using several pens of different colors, he began to trace the edge of the chicken cup.

The camera gave a close-up of the porcelain in his hand, and everyone was attracted by Zhao Chen's craftsmanship.

At the same time, other craftsmen were also making hand-painted porcelain.

However, their drawing method is to outline the lines with a pen and then color them with paint.

This is less artistic and more rigid.

And Zhao Chen, like a freehand painter, directly painted on the porcelain with enamel glaze.

Romantic and confident.

After a while, a picture appeared on the outer surface of the chicken cup.

In the painting, there are several trees covering each other, the ground is covered with green grass, and there are two little foxes playing in the grass.

These two little foxes are vivid in his writing, smiling as if they came to life.

When he was carving Shoushan Stone before, Zhao Chen could carve the charm of a fox.

He knows little foxes too well.

Therefore, his paintbrush seems to give life to these two foxes.

When I saw Zhao Chen draw a whole picture bit by bit with enamel glaze.

Everyone was amazed.

"OH MY GOD! Did he draw the pattern directly with the glaze?"

"What a beautiful painting!"

"It's incredible, these two little foxes seem to be alive!"

"Is it the art of inheritance and ancient China? That country has 5000 years of inheritance, so it must have strong cultural characteristics!"

Foreign netizens talked about it one after another.

The whole body of this chicken cup is made of white, with a blue and white pattern around the mouth and bottom of the cup, and in the middle of the pattern is a lively picture of a fox playing.

Enamel color blue pattern fox playing chicken bowl cup.

This is the Chinese colored porcelain made by Zhao Chen.

Combining the eternity of porcelain and the freehand brushwork of painting.

Draw exquisite landscape pictures on porcelain.

Then, Zhao Chen picked up the gooseneck bottle and began to draw for the second time.

At this moment, Zhao Chen's pictures are the most played in the live broadcast room of the show, and countless foreign artists have become fans of Zhao Chen's painting process.

The gooseneck bottle is very high. I saw him start painting on the gooseneck bottle, and he actually drew a tree with luxuriant branches.

There is a wooden house in the tree, and in the wooden house, two little squirrels are looking outside.

He painted very seriously. During the painting process, there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were full of gentleness.

Next, is the porcelain bowl.

Zhao Chen drew a scene of a little black back and two little white geese chasing on the outer surface of the porcelain bowl.

The little black back ran in front, and the two little white geese were chasing behind.

The expressions of these animals are still vivid and vivid on the paper.

The judges are all paying attention to Zhao Chen's porcelain.

Judging from the current situation, Zhao Chen's skill level is far ahead of other craftsmen.

For the next two days, Zhao Chen was painting porcelain.

He paints with great care and complexity, so the speed is not fast.

One stroke at a time, the landscape and animals are outlined.

When other craftsmen are resting at night, they will also ask each other about the performance of other craftsmen.

They even watch videos and steps of other artisans making porcelain.

Except for some special steps that need to be kept secret, everyone can see other people's performance.

And Zhao Chen's performance was too eye-catching.

Compared with Zhao Chen's paintings, Helun's jade reliefs are a bit inferior.

But only a few.

Afterwards, Zhao Chen finished drawing all the five square porcelain blanks.

At this time, the judges of the competition noticed something was wrong.

These judges are all people who have been in the field of art and porcelain for many years, and they have a very insightful understanding of porcelain and art.

"Do you think that although Zhao Chen's porcelain paintings are beautiful animals, they still feel a bit lifeless."

"Yes, I also found out that the picture is always inconsistent."

"Like something is missing!"

"If that's the end result, his work isn't enough to win this game."

That night, Zhao Chen put the porcelain blank in the kiln for firing.

The high temperature of 800 degrees permanently imprints the color of the enamel glaze on the five-party porcelain.

However, as the judges said, artists from all over the world are also discussing the pictures drawn by Zhao Chen.

Porcelain is beautiful and the workmanship of painting is very good.

However, the overall feeling of porcelain is still a little bit worse.

I feel that these squares of porcelain are not so smooth.

Like a precision instrument without a screw, the most beautiful art cannot be achieved.

"Because other places are too perfect, it is because some places are not perfect that people feel so uncomfortable."

One judge exclaimed.

He was right, the porcelain produced by Zhao Chen was perfect in every aspect, whether it was craftsmanship, shape, or the level of hand-painting, they were all at the pinnacle.

However, in a few places, there is an indescribable feeling, which is very strange.

These comments are very pertinent, and many viewers have also discovered this problem.

"It's a pity, it was originally a few pieces of top-quality porcelain."

"Yeah, there are a few places that are not painted well, but it ruins the overall beauty."

Everyone sighed with emotion.

At the same time, the seven top porcelain craftsmen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In the past few days, Zhao Chen gave them too much oppression.

It's that feeling of complete crushing.

When Zhao Chen showed his peak skills, almost no one could compare with him.

The gossip from the outside world more or less reached Zhao Chen's ears, and even Sun Xiao felt sorry for him.

Hearing these words, Zhao Chen couldn't help laughing.

"It's not over yet."

"Let the bullet fly a little longer."

The next day, Zhao Chen fired the porcelain for the second time out of the oven.

The enamel glaze has been integrated into the porcelain, and each colored porcelain is round and colorful, very beautiful.

The screen of the program played this scene.

Then, Zhao Chen did something that no one thought of.

He placed five pieces of porcelain on the table one by one.

Then he took out two clean paintbrushes and moistened the nibs in water.

Then, Zhao Chen took out another jar of enamel glaze.

Red enamel glaze.

Enamel colors can be roughly divided into three colors: red, yellow and green, and can be subdivided into 11 colors: light red, deep red, dark red; bitter green, big green, water green; bright yellow, ancient yellow; ordinary purple, ocher purple.

Chenghua doucai has always been fired in three stages. The first stage is blue and white as the outline, the second stage is drawn with yellow and green colors, and the third stage is filled with red colors.

The enamel porcelain he made does not only need to be fired twice.

But after these two times, there is a third time of painting and firing.

This is his final finishing touch!
(End of this chapter)