Almighty painter

Chapter 177
Gu Weijing picked out a mink hair oil brush with moderate elasticity, and dipped it in a dark, dark paint, as the outline color of the base map.

before writing,
In particular, he used heavy metal pigments with only a small amount of turpentine added to draw the lines.

Metal elements such as cobalt, manganese, lead, etc. are often used as chemical driers that allow pigments to dry quickly.

For example, the pigments currently used by Gu Weijing,
It is a quick-drying paint designed for time-limited exams and on-site art competitions. It can almost achieve the effect of drying in the wind.

The price is to slightly sacrifice the color of the picture, and the pigment is relatively toxic.

If Gu Weijing was fascinated by the painting and dared to follow the example of the ancient Wang Xizhi and eat steamed buns dipped in paint, he would definitely be sent to the hospital for gastric lavage.

Fortunately,

The base map will gradually be filled with more complete paint details in the later painting process, like a house with a roof and a keel covering layers of decks.

In the end, only a small part of the base map can be displayed on the surface of the finished painting, which does not affect the look and feel.

Therefore, a little sacrifice does not matter, the faster the drying, the better. Of course, there is no need to wait for two or three days to dry for the base map after painting.

base map,
To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to using the fastest time to let the creator himself see the final phase effect of the painting scroll.

Although the audience cannot see the original base map when appreciating the final painting,
But for professional painters, as long as they glance at the base map of a painting, they can already imagine the final appearance of the painting.

The base map is a rough miniature of the final finished appearance of the artwork, its original projection on the canvas.

If we compare the process of creating a painting to the process of a little girl growing up.

As the saying goes, three-year-olds look old, and eight-year-olds look old.

The draft is equivalent to the appearance of this painting when it was still a toddler. Depending on how good the design is, it can be called a "beauty blank", or just a "moderate posture", or even worse "hateful face". ".

however,
After all, a sketch can only show the creator's ability to compose a picture, and at most it will test the artist's sketch line skills to some extent.

The future of the work itself is still full of uncertainties, and there is the possibility of women's eighteenth change.

If the technique is rough, even if you design the composition with the draft of Raphael's "School of Athens", some people will think that the painting is a monkey meeting after the painting is finished.

Similarly,

The "Mona Lisa", a portrait painted by Da Vinci according to the standard basic pyramid structure, does not even have any creative composition, and it can still be painted as a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.

If you have a deep enough appreciation of art,
Whether you are a gallery agent, art critic, art curator, or a senior collector like Chen Shenglin, you may be able to design a good draft.

But it is impossible for non-professional painters to draw the base map.

The draft test is the design, and when the base drawing is completed, the artist's real painting skills will be tested.

The base map does not need delicate and complicated details to fill the picture. After the base map is drawn, in addition to the sketch lines, the most important elements of the work, such as the shape structure and color matching ability, are all truly expressed.

It's like this painting has reached the age of graduating from junior high school, and the eyebrows, eyes and facial features have been finalized.

At the moment when the last stroke of the base map is completed, the final look and feel of this painting is basically formed.

Zhong Wuyan can't change into Xia Yingchun, and Xia Yingchun can't change into Zhong Wuyan.

Artwork can't do plastic surgery.

As long as the artist who writes the pen remains unchanged, the perception of the finished product will fluctuate within a certain range at most. Where is the upper limit and lower limit of the picture, you can judge that eight or nine are inseparable.

Some art agents and gallery brokers, after going to the studio to see the artist’s semi-finished base map, can start to give the artist a formal quotation and purchase contract at what price and what the market expects.

Just because the base map is the projection of the final product,
So no matter what major shortcomings the final product has, all of them can be reflected when drawing the base map.

Gu Weijing tried to draw a fusion painting before. When he completed the "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun", he felt the "sense of fragmentation" and "weirdness" for the first time, which appeared when he drew the base map.

The combination of line modeling and sketching techniques in traditional Chinese meticulous painting has differences in aesthetics and brushwork, one is simple and the other is complex.

The concept of pigment color is also different, one focuses on spirit, and the other focuses on shape.

Everyone can say the words of learning from others' strong points, and it's just a word of mouth.

The objective differences between the painting methods of different cultural systems are like whales and sharks. They both look like fish, but they are not the same species at all.

Fusion painting is known as Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-ki's kind of painting "exclusive to art masters" who can sell their works casually with a small goal.Its difficulty and force are reflected here.

In theory,
For an art student of Gu Weijing's age, if he wants to complete this high-end painting method, he has as little hope as David challenging the giant Goliath.

His previous works were pretty bad.

However, three days away from Shibai,

Now he has the foundation of hundreds of line drawings and sketches, and also has Castiglione's complete painting ideas.

just put pen to paper,

Gu Weijing clearly felt a completely different feeling from before.

Spring returns to the earth, the ice melts, and the drizzle washes away the dust and sand.

The continuous weeks of hard work have paid off, and all the sense of hindrance has disappeared, and the sense of stagnation and irritability that made my heart feel bored and irritable when I write is completely gone.

"Sure enough!"

Just after occupying the high point of the canvas and finishing drawing the outline of the Madonna, Gu Weijing's mind turned to this idea, and he was secretly delighted.

Get yourself on the right path.

Even though the old Mr. Cao Xuan has not dabbled in the field of fusion painting, the great master is the great master, and his vision is definitely vicious enough when he guides others.

There is no problem with the idea of ​​"line drawing sketch + Lang Shining's new body painting".

It is indeed a broad road for beginners who want to try to express the concept of connecting Chinese and Western cultures on the canvas.

Line drawing can simplify the concave-convex changes of sketch lines into meticulous white drawing,

The line drawing chapter of "New Body Painting" can also combine the color science of traditional Chinese painting and oil painting, through the combination of point, line and surface visual focus changes and colors, and combine the charm, form and spirit of Eastern and Western colors into one.

The pen and ink are harmonious and run smoothly.

Gu Weijing's pen tip felt light, like a fish returning to the water, and a bird soaring from the top of the mountain.

This is a whole new realm.

He washes the pen,
Lightly dipped some pearl white, and began to fill in the most basic tone for the Madonna.

"Boom!"

The rain was beating on the windows, and the drizzle that had lasted all day in the evening, not only did not have the slightest intention of restraining, but turned into a drifting silver thread.

Zigzag lightning flashed and died above the head of the old church. The sky was as dark as a piece of dark iron, with neither the setting sun nor the moonlight.

Gu Weijing was in the orphanage's small studio with tungsten lights on.

When Uncle Alai installed the anti-theft door in this small room, he asked the construction team to install a portable engineering lighting with a battery so that Gu Weijing could draw pictures.

At this time, it just came in handy.

When the first sound of spring thunder rumbled from outside the window, Gu Weijing had just finished the last stroke of the base map.

The white statue of the Virgin, the dark gatekeeper, the children in the courtyard illuminated by the sun...

Gu Weijing draws very restrainedly. Every time he finishes the outline with line drawing, he only lays out the basic contrast of light and dark in the main scene, and fills the composition of the picture with the simplest brushwork as possible.

However, his drafting speed is still not fast, and many lines have to be deliberated before writing.

This high-level painting method of fusion painting is still very complicated for Gu Weijing's current level of experience as a professional painter. He must paint carefully in order to manage the collision of Chinese and Western cultures under the pen.

"It's been so long?"

He glanced at his watch, and it took him about two hours to come up with a base map.

For oil painting villages in Guangdong Province, where one person can paint [-] pieces of Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" a year, it is an assembly-line art industry.

In two hours, if you use acrylic, you can draw a complete oil painting, including mounting.A painter who paints at such a fast speed doesn't even deserve a chicken leg for dinner.

Even if it is an ordinary art student, if it is not a huge painting of a few meters in length, it will only take a few minutes to make a base map against the draft.

Gu Weijing's drawing speed is as slow as a snail.

But Gu Weijing was not in a hurry at all, he looked at the finished base map, imagining what the final picture would look like, and laughed silently.

The basemap on canvas has a delicate and delicate artistic balance, with the unique charm of the collision of two artistic styles in Eurasia.

if we assume,
His previous painting "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun" is a tragedy of being broken into fragments by the impact of two different cultural aesthetic torrents.

Then the manuscript in front of me is like a pair of invisible hands, fusing two ancient souls into a flowing Tai Chi Yin Yang fish.

this painting……

Alive!

Looking at the base map in front of him, Gu Weijing even felt a sense of relaxation like a warrior putting his sword back into its sheath.

He checked the time, and sent a text message to his grandfather, Mr. Gu, explaining that he was going to draw a picture when he got home later, but he didn't continue to paint on the base map.

He simply cleaned up the paint, and after making sure that the thin layer of paint on the draft had dried completely, he gently put a dark plastic garbage bag on it to prevent dust from falling.

Then Gu Weijing walked to the window and stared at the scenery outside the window.

"Maybe today is a good opportunity to copy the painting "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm." Gu Weijing looked at the heavy rain outside the window, and a thought suddenly popped up in his mind,
It's raining heavily,
The only light between the sky and the earth is the lightning that occasionally illuminates the earth, and the dark clouds are like a flowing black tide, covering the head in a low voice.

"That female painter, Carroll, may have seen such a scene back then."

He thought for a moment, took out his phone, and sent a message. "Miss Shengzi? Would you like to come and paint together at night?"

……

"That female painter, Senior Carroll, maybe she saw such a scene back then?"

Such a thought flashed through Sakai Katsuko's mind.

She had just showered, dried her hair, wrapped herself in white silk pajamas, and came out of the bathroom.

After a day of shopping, Mrs. Sakai returned home with bags of jewelry. Although her purse was not dry, her body was obviously tired.

The lady was lying on the sofa bed in the living room of the suite, and the home theater in front of her was still playing HBO's hit drama "Dragon Family" this year, but she was already asleep.

"Ugh."

Sakai Katsuko glanced at her mother's long breathing and smiled.

The girl went over and turned off the TV, and found a blanket to cover Mrs. Sakai, but she didn't feel sleepy.

She walked into her own bedroom in the suite, gently opened the window, the curtains shook, and the cold wind and cool rain poured in from the window.

Katsuko Sakai likes rain, and artists always like rain.

Staring at the dark rainy night always gives Ms. Sakai a huge and deep sense of sweet desolation.

Thunderstorm is like a unique symphony between heaven and earth, with a fresh breath far away from human traces.

She gently unbuttoned the pajamas, opened the window to the maximum, raised her white chin slightly, stretched out her arms as if to embrace the rainy night, and let the nature outside the window drown herself.

Looking from behind,
The wind rolled up the silk robe, and the smooth calf and the nosebleed white curve were looming in the fleeting lightning.

If Kou Kou saw this scene, she would definitely feel that bikinis are still weak.

Even Paul Rubens, the representative painter of Baroqueism, who is famous for depicting the delicate skin and naked sensuality of young girls, may not be able to skillfully capture this momentary style.

Sakai Katsuko felt the cold feeling of the wind sliding through the deepest part of her skin, and wanted to touch the feeling of the Impressionist female senior who was bathed in the same wind and rain 150 years ago.

Synesthesia and soul communication with the masters have always been Katsuko Sakai's weakness when copying paintings.

"With a very delicate technique, but only a pale and empty emotion."

This may be the sequelae of the most professional art skills training from birth.

Rousseau in the Renaissance thought,

The most sublimated state of an artist is to return to the "barbarian" who knows nothing, and feel the original appearance of nature with a childish and innocent soul.

All complicated techniques and acquired training will deplete the artist's ability to feel nature.

Too clever is charming, too complicated is vulgar, and there is a similar saying in oriental painting.

Of course, Katsuko Sakai cannot and cannot forget all art theories, and completely return to the mental state of the "noble savage" in the mouth of Rousseau, the master of the Enlightenment.

however,
She felt that in the process of writing papers, discussing with Gu Weijing, and constantly discussing the aesthetic value and emotional expression of "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm Day",

Sakai Katsuko is more and more able to get out of the cage of formulaic appreciation rhetoric and art theory in the book class, and gradually travels through time and enters the inner world of the female painter Carol.

"This feeling is really good. I don't know if Gu Jun is also watching the rain." She was a little lost in thought.

Just when Sakai Katsuko felt that she felt something, the phone by the bed vibrated a few times.

(End of this chapter)