PS: Today's state is extremely poor, just 4000 words in this chapter, forgive me.

Li Yi's paintings, one is a normal ink landscape, the other is a little different, a landscape painting between abstraction and figuration.

Abstract Chinese painting, in the current world of painting and calligraphy, is still a very small category of controversy, and for most traditional painters, this kind of reference is not too recognized. But the reason why Li Yi used such a work to participate in the competition was a rather risky choice made by Hu Jinquan and Zhong Haoqing after repeatedly measuring his level.

Because if they don't find another way, they judge that Li Yi may not even have a 30% chance of winning the third prize, as for the second prize and the first prize, it is needless to say, if he wants to win it steadily, according to his current progress rate, it will take at least 3 to 5 years.

However, Li Yi has a very big strength, that is, his ability to accept and master new Chinese painting techniques.

Whether it was the Yang such as Xuezhou that he imitated, or the Yuanbaoshan that he made casually, Hu Jinquan found that his apprentice had a powerful ability to imitate and understand that others could not match. Therefore, that time he went to Shidu and deliberately instructed Li Yi to paint boneless landscapes, which was also a verification of his judgment.

As it turned out, Li Yi's first attempt was very successful, even though he was not satisfied with the work in the end.

In addition, there is another important reason that prompted Hu Jinquan to make this choice, that is, the award mechanism of the competition.

Because the competition is a national competition, the entries are not limited to Chinese painting, that is to say, whether you are oil painting, watercolor painting, or any other small variety of painting methods, you can participate in the final award.

The organizing committee has an attitude of encouragement towards these relatively niche painting methods, although it has never been explicitly stated in the rules, but in fact, every time they compete, they will always set aside one or two places for these painting methods, as long as those works reach a certain level, the difficulty of their award should be slightly lower than that of some popular painting methods.

And abstract landscapes belong to this ranks.

Hu Jinquan and his wife asked Li Yi to take back the first prize at the beginning, but they actually just wanted to scare him, but they didn't expect him to really achieve any good results.

But when it came to the end, they still wanted to fight. Moreover, only one of the four works is an abstract landscape, and even if it is missed, it will not be awarded at best, and if it is successful, then the benefits are a little small compared to the little risk taken.

Moreover, they have another reason that has never been spoken, that is, although Li Yi has crossed the first threshold of Chinese painting with ink flowers and birds, so far, his main development direction has not been determined!

It's not that they don't want to be sure, but Li Yi is very talented in ink flowers and birds, ink landscapes and even colored landscapes, and from the painting of Yuanbaoshan, Hu Jinquan found that he is also likely to make great achievements in abstract landscapes...... Now, it's a bit of a problem.

As we all know, people like Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian are versatile and have mastered a variety of techniques, but at the beginning, they were only good at one or two painting methods!

The choice of which subject matter and style to focus on is very important.

Because, if you are greedy for everything at the beginning, the final result is likely to be able to do everything, but you are not proficient in everything, so you will waste Li Yi's peerless talent.

The contest chose landscape painting, and chose to paint one ink landscape and one color abstract landscape, which is why Hu Jinquan and his wife want to watch it again, in order to accurately help Li Yi choose a direction.

And many of these twists and turns, Li Yi doesn't know at all.

But after a day in this classroom, he knew that if he still couldn't let go of the miscellaneous thoughts before the game, his work would be at the bottom of the 12 people.

Therefore, he did not completely follow the steps and style of the exercises in these two paintings, but added some things that he usually pondered but did not show during the training camp.

Specific to this abstract landscape, Li Yi believes that his painting can be regarded as a cross-border work, with the characteristics of both abstract and colored landscapes, the picture style is between abstract and freehand, and the color application is bold to use blue, white and red as the main colors, rendering the mountains in a sea of clouds extremely magnificent and majestic.

"This ...... Brother Li's painting is a bit ingenious! ”

After watching it for a long time, Shi Chongxuan finally held back a comment, while others didn't know how to evaluate his so-called crossover work.

Li Yi's eyes turned around on everyone's faces, and he smiled and put the painting away. In this kind of competition, he was able to paint such experimental works, and it is better to say that he is dizzy and bold, than to say that he has no consciousness as a calligrapher and painter at all!

It seems to be influenced by Li Yi's painting, and it may be that the works of the next few people are relatively ordinary, so everyone looks at it more dullly, until the end Shi Chongxuan took out his work, and the atmosphere became warm again.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the second phase of the 72-hour competition ended, and just when Li Yi and others thought that they were finally going to usher in a respite, the organizing committee informed that after lunch, all the landscape painting departments gathered and rushed to Xiyue Huashan by charter flight, and early tomorrow morning, the third stage of the competition will start directly at the top of Huashan, and this time the competition time is only 12 hours!

72 hours were used to paint two works that were repeated hundreds of times, if not thousands of times, and after they actually started sketching, they were only given 12 hours for the same two works......

Notice, everyone's mood suddenly became complicated, especially those who performed well in the second stage, thinking that they were expected to win the award, but also all gloomy faces, a few, and even indignant ready to go to the organizing committee to ask for an explanation, as a national competition with a long history, it can be said that it affects the hearts of countless calligraphy and painting lovers in China, how can it be so childish in the rules of the competition?

Li Yi didn't know whether these people went to complain or not, he only knew that the atmosphere on the bus to the airport was really a bit weird, because almost all of them were holding a mobile device as soon as they got on the bus, and they kept looking at something, and no one was willing to say more.

"What are they looking at?"

Seeing that Ma Weizhong next to him also took out the love pie, Li Yi couldn't help but be a little confused, although the time for sketching was relatively urgent, but now he hadn't even arrived at the place, even if he was fighting, he didn't know what to spell?

"Anyone who paints landscapes has basically gone to Huashan to write for a living, even if some have not been there, they have accumulated a lot of materials. So as soon as we knew the location of the game, we asked people to pass on all the materials, that is, from the moment the notice was issued, the game had already begun. ”

Ma Weizhong glanced at Li Yi, with puzzlement in his eyes,

"None of this your master told you beforehand?"

Li Yi shook his head a little dazedly.

"Then you didn't look it up on the Internet yourself? There's a full set of strategies on the top. ”

A full set of strategies? Li Yi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, this time, he really had a long experience.

"In fact, these are not the most difficult, the most difficult is anti-interference. How many tourists do you think Huashan will receive in a day? Not to mention too much, only one in ten people will pay attention to us, I guess ......"

Ma Weizhong spread his hands,

"That's why everyone hurries up to look at the materials and strives to be sure of it, so that even if it is affected by some impact, it should be able to survive with relatively adequate preparations......"

Li Yi wiped a cold sweat again, how does this feel like it's full of routines!

"Of course, painters are also human beings, and they are also a group of people who are particularly sensitive to fame and fortune, how can they get rid of these things? Okay, let's talk slowly after the game, and now, I'm going to hurry up and sharpen my gun. ”

Li Yi nodded with a wry smile, took out his mobile phone and searched for a while, but he didn't find any valuable pictures, so he simply turned off his mobile phone, leaned on the back of the chair and began to close his eyes to recuperate.

Soon, the bus drove to the airport, and when Li Yi took out his mobile phone again, he suddenly found that he had received an email from his master.

At 7 o'clock the next morning, a group of more than 50 people took the Huashan Cableway to climb the north peak, and at 8 o'clock, the third stage of the competition officially began.

If the second stage of the competition is a self-selected proposition, then the third stage of sketching is a designated proposition. At this stage, Li Yi and his team have to complete a total of two works, one is a solitary peak designated by the organizing committee, and the other is the mountains under the sea of clouds in the south from the top of the north peak.

Because of the materials used in Chinese painting, sketching is more troublesome. And now they are on the top of Huashan Mountain, the wind is relatively strong, and they have to always pay attention to the painting tools not to be blown away by the wind while painting, so they are a little uncomfortable at first.

And with the passage of time, the number of tourists has increased, although the people are protected by the isolation belt pulled out by the organizing committee, but the noisy sound of tourists still enters the brain like a magic sound all the time, which also has a great impact on their painting.

Looking at the mountains in the distance, Li Yi didn't start his pen for a long time, because he never found the feeling, and around him, there were several painters who were not in the same classroom with him in the second stage, although they started to write, but within an hour, they almost all painted one or two paintings, which shows that before the heart is completely calmed, there is no big difference between not moving the pen.

After another half an hour, Li Yi got up and looked at the progress of more than a dozen people around him, then sat down, picked up a paintbrush, closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, then opened his eyes suddenly, the tip of the pen lightly touched the drawing paper in front of him, and then he flipped his wrist and began to outline.

At noon, the organizing committee did not prepare lunch for everyone, and most of the painters did not set aside time for themselves to eat, and finally, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, everyone began to stop writing one after another and completed the third stage of the competition.

At four o'clock, Li Yi also completed his two works, he glanced at the sky, looked at the time, couldn't help but smile wryly and shook his head, saying that it was 12 hours of painting time, but in fact, it was only less than 10 hours, because the sun was about to set.

By 5 o'clock, most of the painters had stopped writing, the people in the quarantine circle had become scarce, and those who had turned in their works had left one after another, looking for a place to enjoy the sunset. They don't have to rush down the mountain today, because the organizing committee has already chartered a hotel on the mountain, and they will stay here for the night and watch the sunrise tomorrow before they disband.

After 5:10 o'clock, the sun had already descended to the position level with the top of the mountain, and this big fireball exuded its last glory of the day, dyeing the clouds on the horizon into a magnificent gold, and then, slowly disappearing into the mountains in the distance, the night, quickly descended to the top of the north mountain.

In the dim light, feeling the temperature getting lower and lower, Li Yi glanced at a few people who were throwing in the painting not far away, and a thought suddenly rose in his heart, this competition must have a special purpose, otherwise, such an arrangement would be too tricky.

"Let's go, dinner should start soon, finish eating early and find someone to play cards, this game is really a horse pit!"

Ma Weizhong walked over from not far away and gently slapped Li Yi,

"Those who haven't finished painting will probably complain to the organizing committee of the competition and see what will happen to them then."

When the two came to the hotel restaurant, they found that most of the dishes on the table had been served, but none of the people sitting around the table moved their chopsticks, but they all looked at the spokesperson of the organizing committee standing in the middle of the restaurant.

"Okay, everyone is almost here, I think I should explain a few words about the rules of this competition, otherwise, I'm afraid that you will be thrown directly from the top of the mountain in the middle of the night."

There was a burst of chic laughter in the dining room.

"Originally, although the rules of this competition have been changed, the sketching link has not been arranged so hastily and unreasonably."

"But just half a month before the start of the competition, the Huaxia Painting Association received an invitation to the competition, which came from the Japan Painting Association."

At the end of September, they are going to invite young Chinese painters from China, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other countries to go on a journey to find their roots. This one-month trip will cover the famous mountains and rivers of China, and two works will be sketched on the spot, and they must be completed within 8 hours......"

"Boom", as soon as the voice of the spokesman of the organizing committee fell, the restaurant exploded, and it turned out that the root was here! (To be continued.) )