Chapter 134: Bronze Objects Found

"This is your other studio?"

Fang Ming got out of the car, just now under Ning Yuan's guidance, he drove to the outskirts of the city, and drove for nearly an hour before he came to the place she said, the problem was that there were several luxurious villas in front of him, where could he see that it was a studio?

It's pretty much the same for vacations!

"That's my studio. Come on in. ”

Ning Yuan raised her hand as she spoke, holding an electronic key in her hand, and after a soft "tick", the door of the villa slowly opened, and she raised her feet and walked inside.

Fang Ming naturally followed in as soon as he saw it, thinking that he would have to take a good look at what was inside.

Walking into the door, Fang Ming blinked, in front of the villa was a large area of grass with thousands of square meters, obviously often taken care of, the extremely neatly trimmed green grass made people feel refreshed at a glance, and some small flowers scattered in it were blooming red, and in the southwest corner there was a small pond of about ten square meters.

"Isn't it? Is it true that people who engage in art are so rich? ”

Although he hadn't seen the situation in the villa yet, the meadow in front of him alone was already terrible - Fang Ming knew that it would cost a lot of money just to maintain this meadow for a month.

Ning Yuan continued to walk forward as if he didn't pay attention to everything in front of him, and after entering the villa, he didn't go up the stairs, but went down + one + book ~ read + novel + ybdu.

"Isn't it, it's the basement again?"

Following behind Ning Yuan, Fang Ming found that she seemed to have a soft spot for the basement, although the studio in the city was on the first, second and third floors, but the place where Ning Yuan usually painted was the basement, and the so-called studio in the suburbs also stayed in the basement.

"I love the basement because it gives people a special sense of security."

As if knowing what Fang Ming was thinking, Ning Yuan suddenly explained.

"Well, you're wrong, the basement is really capable of giving people that feeling."

Fang Ming looked around and found that the basement he was in was much smaller than the studio he had seen in the city before, only about a hundred square meters. There is a furnace in the east side of the wall, next to a lot of bronze, even some are half melted, in front of the stove is a huge workbench made of special fireproof materials, on which are placed a lot of tools and molds, some places have burnt yellow or black color, it is estimated that the high-temperature bronze liquid splashed on it, as for the other side of the stove opposite the wall is a tall cabinet, but because the cabinet door is closed, you can't see what is inside.

"This is your studio?"

It was the first time for Fang Ming to come to such a place, he was quite curious, looking left and right.

"Yes, what I'm best at is oil painting, and I studied sculpture before, but now it's just a small interest."

Although Ning Yuan said that it was only a small interest, Fang Ming did not dare to underestimate it at all, the small interest of a genius was much stronger than that of many lifelong studies.

Fang Ming found that there was a bronze artifact about twenty centimeters high on the workbench, and when he picked it up, he found that it was actually a copper turtle, and it was a very traditional kind.

"Huh? This seems to be a magic weapon used in feng shui to ward off evil spirits in the house. ”

Fang Ming touched his nose, he didn't expect to see such a thing here at all, isn't Ning Yuan an artist? And it's an art artist who is good at the West, shouldn't the bronze cast by such a person be some kind of human body or something? How could it be a copper turtle?

He felt like his brain was a little short-circuited.

Obviously, Ning Yuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but said, "I just think it's cute, so I'll make one myself to play with." ”

"Cute?"

Fang Ming felt that his jaw was about to fall to the ground, although the copper turtle in front of him was round, but his four feet and back were still stepping on money and carrying gold ingots, he believed that it was absolutely impossible to be cute.

"You don't understand it."

Ning Yuan's words made Fang Ming suddenly petrified, and in the end, he could only shake his head and simply stop talking about it.

Ning Yuan obviously didn't have the 'desire' to continue to discuss with Fang Ming, she walked to the stove and opened the door, and then Fang Ming said, "Come, help me throw all these bronzes into the furnace." ”

"Okay."

Fang Ming nodded and walked over, picking up the bronze piled up next to the stove piece by piece and throwing it into the furnace.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Heavy bronze was thrown into the furnace to find a dull sound.

"Huh!"

"What's wrong?"

Ning Yuan looked at Fang Ming and found that he was looking at the piece of bronze in his hand in a daze, with a disbelieving expression on his face.

"Heh, it looks like you're going to make a small fortune."

Fang Ming raised his head, then raised the bronze in his hand, and continued: "This is an antique, and it is worth a lot of money, about 2 million. ”

"Huh? How can it be? I got these bronzes from a scrapyard, how can they be antiques? ”

Ning Yuan took a look at the piece of bronze that Fang Ming was holding in his hand, and found that it was covered with dust and oil, and suddenly he couldn't tell what it was.

"I don't dare to say about painting, but when it comes to picking up leaks among antiques, then I'm a master, and if I say it's an antique, it must be an antique."

As soon as he picked up the bronze in his hand just now, Fang Ming found that Pixiu suddenly appeared on the back of his right hand and was clearly visible, and he immediately understood that his good luck had come again.

"Really?"

Ning Yuan showed a surprised expression on her face, to be honest, although 2 million is a lot, she won't take it to heart, the surprise is that she seems to have also played with the antique collection to pick up the leak, you must know that when she bought this batch of nearly 1 ton of bronze from the scrap yard, it only cost less than 1,000 yuan, and now she has found a leak worth 400 or 5 million, how can this not be surprised?

"Bang!"

Fang Ming gently placed the bronze in his hand on the workbench, then nodded and said, "Of course." ”

After looking around, he found that there was a piece of cloth next to the stove, Fang Ming picked it up and soaked it with water and began to clean up the bronze.

Ning Yuan stopped a chair and simply sat down and looked at Fang Ming to see what kind of bronze this was in the end.

There was a lot of mud on the bronze, which must have been because no one noticed that he was an antique before, so she didn't care, it was piled up everywhere, not to mention anything else, after arriving here in Ning Yuan, she didn't think it was just ordinary bronze, if she hadn't found it herself, it was estimated that she would have thrown it into the furnace and melted it down.

However, Ning Yuan quickly stood up, pointed to the bronzes next to the stove, and said, "Fang Ming, you should also hurry up about your signboard, so let's do it, you can identify the bronze there, if there are no antiques, I will throw it into the furnace and melt it, hurry up and cast a signboard for you, or it will be too late."

Fang Ming stopped and found that this was really the case.

"Hah! I forgot everything about seeing antiques. ”

Fang Ming checked the bronzes next to the furnace, but this time he really didn't find any more antiques - but there was nothing strange about it, if antiques were everywhere, it would be fine.

Put Ning Yuan's needed bronze into the furnace, Ning Yuan closed the furnace door, and then pressed the switch, and the flame rose all of a sudden.

"Now that science and technology are developed, it is very difficult to melt a little bronze, not to mention far away, when I was in school, every time I made bronze sculptures, it was very troublesome, and I didn't have my own exclusive furnace."

Fang Ming stopped at this time, it was the first time he had seen someone use bronze to cast things, it was full of freshness.

"What's the temperature?"

Fang Ming looked at the furnace curiously, because some of it was made of transparent materials, he could even see that the bronze inside was slowly melting.

"After the bronze melts, it is maintained at a high temperature of about 1100-1200 degrees, which is the best temperature for bronze casting."

Ning Yuan said as he walked to the other side of the wall and opened the huge cabinet, Fang Ming took a look and found that it was full of all kinds of materials, many of which he couldn't recognize, there were pieces of them, and there were also cans and cans.

"What are these things?"

While looking for what he wanted in the cabinet, Ning Yuan said: "Bronze has a characteristic, that is, there must be molds, and what is in this cabinet is the materials used to make various molds. ”

Fang Ming also walked to the cabinet and found that there were many kinds of things inside, so he was even more curious and said, "Could it be that there are also many kinds of materials for making molds?" Isn't there supposed to be a best-of-a-kind thing? ”

"Of course, there are such materials, but many times different materials and different molding methods will end up with different artistic effects, so generally speaking, we will continue to try. For example, the 'block method' we generally see is different from the 'lost wax method', and the effect is also obviously different. ”

Interlaced like a mountain, Fang Ming found that he was listening to a book from heaven at this time, and he didn't understand what Ning Yuan was talking about at all. He still wanted to ask, but found that Ning Yuan had already taken out a bag from the cabinet, opened it and took out the contents and began to do it, directly drying himself aside.

"Well, it looks like I'll have to figure it out for myself."

Attracted by the block model method and the lost wax method mentioned by Ning Yuan, Fang Ming took out his mobile phone and checked it on the Internet.

One of the advantages of advanced technology is that everything on the Internet can be consulted, of course, it is impossible to be very detailed, but this is enough for Fang Ming, he just wants to know a little basic information, not to become an expert in this area.

Of course, if you want to find more detailed information in some aspects, such as antique collections, Fang Ming is still more willing to go to the library, where you can really find what you want.