Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 19 Kneading Clay and Ceramic Painting

Chapter 19 Kneading Clay and Ceramic Painting
In the following period, Wang Liu began to teach Li Feng and Qian Fusheng how to knead mud.

Kneading mud is also a skill.

Both the technique and the force applied are carefully considered.

Immediately afterward, under Wang Liu's guidance, Li Feng sat down next to Zhou Jianjun and started kneading mud.

Li Feng began kneading the mud.

A notification sound appeared in Li Feng's mind.

"Pottery Throwing Experience +1"

With each movement, Li Feng's experience in pottery throwing continued to grow.

Li Feng felt as if his hands were guiding him in some way, showing him how to knead better.

Time flies when Li Feng is practicing.

He felt that the practice hadn't lasted long, and the whole morning had passed in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Zhou Jianjun looked at the mud that Li Feng had kneaded and said with some amazement.

"You kneaded it well."

"This tightness, and this density."

"sure".

Li Feng felt a little embarrassed to say anything after hearing Zhou Jianjun's praise.

"I don't know how it got kneaded like this."

Attracted by Zhou Jianjun's words, Wang Liu walked over and then, after seeing Li Feng kneading the kaolin clay, he was somewhat surprised.

"sure!".

"It's only been half a day and it's already like this."

"Not bad, not bad!"

"From now on, all the new kaolin that arrives at the factory can be handed over to you."

After hearing Wang Liu's words, Qian Fusheng turned his head and looked at Li Feng.

Then, he looked at Li Feng's soft kaolin and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Li Feng!"

"You learned it so quickly?"

"I'm still completely baffled!"

"How did you do that?"

"Teach me?"

After hearing Qian Fusheng's words, Li Feng didn't know what to say.

I can only describe how well I knead it with my current skill level; if you asked me to explain it now, I honestly wouldn't be able to.

So he couldn't help but apologize to Qian Fusheng.

"I don't know either".

"However, if I knead it with my hands, it's fine to knead it like this."

At this moment, Zhou Jianjun helped Li Feng answer the question.

"It's a matter of feel; some things can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words."

"It's like when we study ceramics."

"Many things are hard to explain, but they are the way they are."

Zhou Jianjun's words left Qian Fusheng completely bewildered.

Seeing Qian Fusheng's bewildered expression, Zhou Jianjun patted him on the shoulder and comforted him.

It's okay if you don't understand.

You'll understand later.

Wang Liu nodded in agreement.

"right!".

"This kind of thing is like doing too much and suddenly everything becomes clear."

"Sometimes it's really hard to explain."

"alright!".

"It's getting late, let's go eat."

"If we don't go now, we'll only be able to eat other people's leftovers."

Wang Liu finished speaking and ran away.

When Zhou Jianjun saw Wang Liu run away, he naturally followed him.

Seeing that they had all gone to eat, Li Feng had no reason not to go too, so he simply pulled Qian Fusheng to the cafeteria.

The dishes today were pretty good; they even had braised pork with glass noodles.

Li Feng ate his fill this time.

There is a two-hour break at noon.

Wang Liu and Zhou Jianjun didn't know where the cat had gone.

After all, the two of them had been working at the factory for quite some time.

Therefore, they knew the factory's rest areas very well, while Li Feng could only slowly find a suitable place.

The two then prepared to head to the pottery workshop.

To get to the potter's wheel workshop, you usually have to pass through the painting workshop.

Just as Li Feng and Qian Fusheng passed by the painting workshop, Qian Fusheng patted Li Feng on the back.

Li Feng turned to look at Qian Fusheng.

"What's wrong?".

Qian Fusheng then pointed in the direction of the workshop director's office.

Li Feng's gaze followed the direction Qian Fusheng pointed and looked into the workshop director's office.

At this moment, Li Feng saw Zhou Jianjun leaning back in his office chair, head tilted back, asleep.

Not far from Zhou Jianjun, there was a middle-aged man who looked somewhat similar to Zhou Jianjun.

Li Feng guessed that he must be Zhou Jianjun's father!
But then Li Feng asked Qian Fusheng, "It's Zhou Jianjun inside!"

"What's wrong?".

Qian Fusheng said.

"Shall we go inside and wait for a while?"

Li Feng immediately shook his head at Qian Fusheng and stopped him.

"brother!".

"Are you crazy?"

"Zhou Jianjun is Director Zhou's son, so what are we?"

"You still want to sleep in the director's office?"

"Save your breath."

After hearing Li Feng's words, Qian Fusheng could only nod and droop his head.

"That's true."

Li Feng turned around and saw some porcelain vases with outlines on the table. He immediately stopped in his tracks.

Li Feng found these porcelain vases very beautiful.

Upon seeing these porcelain vases with outlines, Li Feng couldn't help but examine them closely.

Li Feng had some experience with painting before. Because he studied science and engineering, he developed a love for painting while learning drafting.

Cartography and drawing are, of course, two different things.

Mechanical drawing is completely different from painting.

Later, Li Feng came into contact with some Western sketching techniques.

Li Feng understood the basics.

Later, Li Feng also learned some meticulous brushwork painting.

Li Feng felt that the meticulous brushwork he was learning was very similar to the lines on porcelain.

Li Feng noticed that the lines drawn on the porcelain bottle resembled those in a meticulous brush painting, which has eighteen techniques.

The outlines on the porcelain resembled the iron-wire drawing technique that Li Feng had once studied.

In Li Feng's view, these line drawings were very powerful.

There is a kind of rigidity.

Just as Li Feng was engrossed in looking at it, Qian Fusheng put his right hand on Li Feng's shoulder and then noticed that Li Feng seemed to be staring at the porcelain vase.

So he couldn't help but ask Li Feng.

"brother!".

"Why are you so engrossed in watching it?"

Li Feng glanced at Qian Fusheng, then looked at the porcelain vase.

"Um!".

"Don't you think it's beautiful?"

"This is such a simple sketch!"

Qian Fusheng asked Li Feng, somewhat puzzled.

"Plain drawing?"

"What is plain drawing?"

"Can you understand this?"

Li Feng began to explain.

"Line drawing is a fundamental skill in meticulous brushwork painting. I think the painting on this porcelain vase looks very much like the line drawing technique in meticulous brushwork painting."

"The painting on this bottle is really beautiful."

"I don't know if it's the same as meticulous brushwork painting, using the same painting method."

As soon as Li Feng finished speaking, a deep voice came from behind him.

"Kid!"

"You're right!"

"Ceramic painting does indeed employ some techniques from meticulous brush painting, and the outlining method is the same."

"However, there are some differences."

Li Feng looked back and saw a middle-aged man with a square face standing behind him and Qian Fusheng.

Seeing this, Li Feng immediately stood up and said somewhat embarrassedly to the middle-aged man.

"Sorry"

"I was just talking to myself."

Seeing Li Feng's appearance, the middle-aged man couldn't help but smile and say,
"fine.".