Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Jiang Zhe left the hotel where his teachers and classmates were staying and returned to his own place. The journey was not far, and he passed by several restaurants that were still open. Among them, two seafood restaurants had quite a few customers.

He wanted to try it, but considering the long journey, he didn't dare to overeat. He could only remember the names of the delicacies and try them again in two days.

The nightlife he saw along the way was different from what he had seen before. For him, it was all very fresh material.

When I got back to the hotel, I was sweating again.

After washing up, I made myself a cup of tea, sat comfortably in a chair, took out my sketchbook, and drew down all the materials I saw today.

Banyan trees, kapok trees, camphor trees with well-developed root systems, pedestrians on the roadside, common flowers and fruits... buildings with local style, and so on.

He has been out and about a lot recently, and he has not relaxed his study. He uses his spare time to draw sketches or sketches.

Before coming to Guangzhou, he had already planned to record what he saw and heard and create a series of works about his travels in the South in the future.

The next morning, Jiang Zhe was woken up by the hotel's wake-up call.

He washed up, took his bag and went to the hotel where the teachers were staying.

Professor Qin and Teacher Hu were already waiting in the lobby.

Seeing him coming, the two walked out of the hotel: "Let's go to a more traditional tea restaurant, have morning tea, and take you to meet some friends."

The three of them crossed a street and came to a nearby restaurant, or tea restaurant, which had an old-fashioned decoration.

This tea restaurant has two floors. There are already quite a few customers on the first floor. There are small steamers on each table filled with various delicacies.

Jiang Zhe found that the customers who eat morning tea here are older, and occasionally young people will buy food to take away.

Business is good, so I guess the food can't be too bad.

The three of them went to the second floor and found a seat to sit down.

Professor Qin ordered a pot of Tieguanyin and waited for his friends to arrive.

Jiang Zhe saw that Professor Qin and Teacher Hu were obviously very familiar with this place, so he asked, "Professor Qin, Teacher Hu, have you been here before?"

"No, a friend introduced it to me."

"I went to other tea restaurants twice and got used to it." Teacher Hu said: "When you come here, you have to adapt to the life here. Eating morning tea is also a good experience."

Jiang Zhe had heard of this morning tea culture.

There is no time limit today, so you can have a good experience.

Soon, a man with his gray hair combed back came up to the second floor, saw Professor Qin and waved with a smile.

Professor Qin said to Jiang Zhe, "This is the teacher Li Yue I told you about."

The three men stood up to greet him.

Teacher Li greeted Professor Qin and then looked at Jiang Zhe.

Jiang Zhe took the initiative to greet. "Hello, Teacher Li!"

"You are Jiang Zhe. I have seen your paintings. You are even more handsome in real life than in the photos."

Jiang Zhe had heard from Professor Qin that this teacher was good at lacquer painting.

After taking their seats, Professor Qin told Jiang Zhe about Teacher Li’s abilities and honors.

"Old Qin, don't praise me like that. The price of my works is not as high as Jiang Zhe's."

"It cannot be evaluated simply by price." Professor Qin deliberately led Teacher Li to talk about his creation.

Teacher Li took a sip of tea from the teacup and said slowly: "The lacquer paintings I created cannot be compared with oil paintings, Chinese paintings and other major painting genres. From a technical analysis, it is not complicated. This kind of painting has unique advantages. In humid and hot areas, many paintings are difficult to preserve, but lacquer paintings have more advantages."

After briefly talking about the current status of lacquer painting, he said with some emotion: "After I graduated from university and returned to Guangzhou, I started to do lacquer painting, and it has been several decades. Unfortunately, the influence of this kind of painting is limited and cannot compare with gouache and watercolor."

Jiang Zhe thought that watercolor and gouache materials were used by a large number of professionals, but how many people would do lacquer painting? However, this idea could not be said in front of others.

"Do you use natural lacquer or chemical lacquer?" He deliberately brought up a topic that Mr. Li was good at.
Teacher Li was very happy to hear Jiang Zhe's question: "From your question, I know that you have learned about lacquer painting.
I mainly use natural lacquer to paint, but I have tried using chemical lacquer.

Lacquer painting requires a lot of experimentation to avoid color changes or even accidental damage."

Soon, another teacher, Du, came.

Teacher Du has dark skin and mainly creates murals.

When all the guests arrived, they started ordering food.

Jiang Zhe only knew a limited number of types of morning tea, such as shrimp dumplings, garlic pork ribs, steamed chicken feet with black bean sauce, and rice rolls.

While ordering dishes, Teacher Li and Teacher Du introduced which ones were delicious and what their characteristics were.

"Jiang Zhe, this is your first time here. This tea restaurant still retains some traditional dim sum, such as pork liver siu mai, beef balls in lard, dace balls, and fried taro balls. They are definitely worth trying."

Since the locals recommended it, Jiang Zhe didn't mind giving it a try.

The portion of each dim sum is very small, and almost every one of them is gone after just one bite.

Jiang Zhe felt that some of the dim sum were indeed as good as their reputations. Of course, there were also some dim sum whose tastes he could not adapt to.

Teacher Li told Jiang Zhe that nowadays, the dim sum in many tea restaurants are gradually shifting towards fusion flavors.

An hour had passed after breakfast.

"There is another activity this morning. Let's go there now. We have plenty of time." Several teachers discussed and prepared to set off.

Jiang Zhe said, "Teachers, I have to attend an event in the morning, which is arranged by the gallery."

"Okay, come and meet up when you're done." Professor Qin knew that Jiang Zhe had other plans.

Jiang Zhe said goodbye to several teachers and rushed to meet Wang Zhen.

The two visited the two judges one after another.

The meeting was like a gathering of friends, and no one talked about the exhibition.

After the meeting, Jiang Zhe planned to reunite with Teacher Qin, and Wang Zhen would go with him.

The two were sitting in a taxi, and Wang Zhen talked about the current status of the selection: "In this exhibition, we will select 3 gold award nominations, 13 silver award nominations, 37 bronze award nominations, and 42 excellence award nominations.

You should strive for a gold nomination, and at least get a silver. For you, getting a bronze nomination or an excellent nomination is a failure.

Several judges have given good comments on your work, and coupled with your experience of winning awards at the Biennale, the jury should consider it. I hope nothing unexpected happens. "

Jiang Zhe knew that Wang Zhen was always on the go and did not add any pressure to her.

The two came to an exhibition hall.

This is an event organized by the local Art Association and cultural department.

At this time, the event had already started and a woman was giving a speech. Most of the audience were professional painters or enthusiasts.

"...These works reflect the new achievements of oil painting art in my country in recent years, and also show the new trend of the development of oil painting art in my country. The subject matter, form, style and technique are diversified. In addition to many realistic and figurative works, there are also many works that focus on the expressiveness, abstraction and allegory of painting language. The pursuit of personalized expression methods has become a common pursuit..."

Jiang Zhe saw Professor Qin and Teacher Hu, and walked towards them with Wang Zhen. (End of this chapter)