Generally speaking, when the studio students are painting on the wall, there will be students who come to watch the excitement.

This is actually normal, after all, in high school, people who have good academic performance, can play basketball, can sing, or can draw are quite popular.

But—

"I've never seen this battle before... There must be one or two hundred, right? ”

Rinka Konoe, who was carrying a few small buckets of acrylic paint, glanced around and couldn't help but sigh quietly.

It is estimated that not only the senior students of this school, but even the students of other schools are curious to come over.

There may be a layer of people here who are not fans of Tsukasa Higashino, they may have heard the news and ran over curiously to see the excitement.

But...

"That's still a bit much..."Airi Kono, who was also helping Higashino Tsukasa carry paint, glanced at it and couldn't help muttering: "If I was stared at by so many people, I would definitely be so nervous that I wouldn't be able to draw anything." ”

Rinka Konoe also agrees with this sentence,

One or two hundred people are staring at you curiously, and in this case, if your hands are shaking or your feet are weak... That's a real shame.

The most important thing is that in such a stressful situation, it can be extremely difficult to show your strength.

At least Rinka Konoe could feel a little nervous standing next to Tsukasa Higashino with the paint on her shoulder.

Thinking so, Konoe Rinka glanced curiously at Tsukasa Higashino, wanting to see what kind of expression he had now—not to mention nervous, but it shouldn't be so easy, right?

But... She looked over and realized that Higashino Tsukasa was still the same happy and smiling expression, basically unchanged, and he was even chatting with Konoe Ryoka and them.

This psychological quality...

"Rinka, give me the paint." Tsukasa Higashino reached out and took the paint from Rinka Konoe's hand, and his eyes began to scan the art wall of Aomori High School in front of him.

I have to say that Ishikawa Reizo really paid some money for his own school, and a cursory look at the past shows that this art wall is about 30 meters long, with a flat surface and white subject, and many places have been occupied by students' wall paintings.

Landscape paintings, figure paintings, and even abstract paintings, although the quality of Higashino's opinion is mediocre, but compared to the average student, the works here can be called excellent.

He looked away and looked for a good place to paint.

After all, there are already a lot of works on the wall, and he can't just cover up all these student works on the basis of these works and then paint.

Just as Higashino Tsukasa was looking, Kono Airi on the side took the initiative to come up and find a good place for Higashino Tsukasa: "Higashino-sensei, look here?" There is a piece of space that is spacious enough. ”

The place she was referring to was really good? It's an empty wall that no one has used at all, and it's a big place? Tsukasa Higashino has plenty of room to play.

Kono Airi herself thinks it's very good.

Just when she thought Higashino would nod in agreement? Higashino Tsukasa smiled and waved his hand: "No need... I'll just use that place. ”

He smiled and pointed to the end of the art wall.

Over there? There is indeed a blank piece of wall.

But...

"Isn't there a landscape tree in the way?" Airi Kono opened her mouth a little incomprehensibly.

Yes, because this art wall is a bit long? Can't just leave a slippery wall here? Therefore, some landscape trees are planted around, and there are creepers on the wall, which looks lush and very atmospheric.

And the place that Higashino picked up? There's a landscape tree in the way? It looks like it's getting in the way.

"It's just a tree."

Tsukasa Higashino replied with a smile.

Is there a tree?

Isn't having a tree there just to get in the way? And no matter how good the painting is, it is blocked by the landscape tree, isn't it useless to draw it?

That's weird, isn't it?

Airi Kono and Rinka Konoe didn't understand a little, so they curiously asked Ryoka Konoe, who was standing next to them, "What exactly is Higashino-sensei going to draw?" Didn't reveal it? ”

"Ass didn't say anything... He just made a sudden decision and was ready to paint... Nothing else was said. ”

Konoe Lianghua They are also at a loss? Seems to have no idea what Higashino is thinking.

And outside the venue, many students who watched the excitement were also curious... What is Higashino going to do?

Just when they're curious to talk? Tsukasa Higashino had already come to the landscape tree with a paint jar.

This landscape tree is not big, it is a very ordinary thin-stemmed landscape tree? At a cursory glance, the height is only two or three meters.

Tsukasa Higashino nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time picked up the wall painting tool? Start preparing for painting.

He already had an idea when he looked at the wall just now? Now it's just a matter of bringing out what you're thinking and drawing it on the wall.

As for the so-called wall painting tools? In fact, it is nothing more than chalk, brushes, erasers, buckets, knives, plastic palettes and other gadgets.

Chalk is used to scratch the walls, and a knife is used to scrape off excess paint.

"I don't know what Higashino-sensei is going to draw." Airi Kono had already stepped back quite a distance and began to watch Tsukasa Higashino bow her head and mix colors.

Should I say it's a fan filter?

Obviously, Higashino Tsukasa is an ordinary color palette, and she thinks it's quite handsome.

"It's pretty much the same as anything... Higashino-sensei should be able to draw well. Yumi Takahashi answered next to him.

She doesn't know much about painting, but in her opinion, Tsukasa Higashino is omnipotent, and there is nothing he can't do.

"It's all the same, there are many genres of painting." Airi Kono glanced at Yumi Takahashi, and then explained, "It's like karate, kendo, and other things, there are all genres, and there are various styles of painting..."

"But according to my understanding, in general, there are actually two kinds, one is a work that pursues the expressive skills of the picture, and the other is a creative theme work that wants to express a certain emotion or a certain thought."

Airi Kono explained again:

"Landscape painting and classical painting are works that pursue realistic expression, which is the pursuit of picture expression skills, that is, works of so-called painting skills, and works such as abstract paintings... That would simply be a test of the author's deep thinking about something. ”

Of course, Kono Airi said that, she didn't know anything about abstract paintings, and even if she was asked to look at them now, she didn't understand what kind of feelings the author of these abstract paintings was trying to express.

"Is that so?" Yumi Takahashi didn't seem to understand: "Then can you understand what Higashino-sensei wants to draw now?" ”

"Huh? Have you started drawing? Airi Kono looked stunned.

"Uh... You're done with it, right? Yumi Takahashi glanced at Tsukasa Higashino, and was a little inexplicable: "Do you artists usually draw so fast in your life?" ”

"......" Kono Airi.

Ignoring Yumi Takahashi's question, Airi Kono looked at Tsukasa Higashino over there.

She lowered her head and talked to Yumi Takahashi for a while, and Tsukasa Higashino had already drawn it?

It's too fast.

She's always been a fan of sanity, and if Tsukasa Higashino drew something that was very ordinary... Then she is going to be completely disappointed.

But... It seems like... Is it really finished?

Airi Kono opened her mouth.

But that's too small, right? With such a large piece of wall, it is estimated that the painting drawn by Tsukasa Higashino only occupies one-tenth of the area.

In addition, the content of Higashino's painting on the wall is also very simple, probably a young man wearing a white slim-fitting shirt, and the young man in the picture is leaning sideways, leaning intently against the wall to paint, and the object of the painting is a landscape tree.

That's it.

It's really a very simple content, but it is very delicately painted, and the landscape tree on the wall seems to jump out of the plane through the medium of the wall.

But... Other than that, it's nothing.

It's too monotonous... Seems lonely.

"It's a bit monotonous, Ace's work this time..."Ryoka Konoe couldn't help but say worriedly.

But her words were heard by Airi Kono next to her, which made Airi Kono anxious all of a sudden: "Do you know what art is?" The composition is not monotonous at all. ”

"Huh?" Ryoka Konoe was stunned.

She looked at the obviously anxious senior sister beside her, and her face was full of surprise.

No... I'm Ace's girlfriend... I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry? Shouldn't this situation be something I'm more worried about?

Konoe Ryoka's face was full of confusion, and she suddenly felt that her position had changed.

Airi Kono ignored this, just like those female fans who covered for their idols, and muttered in their mouths: "Those blank spaces must be meaningful, and it is impossible for Mr. Higashino to do meaningless things, but my current level is too low to see it." ”

"......" Konoe Ryoka and his party couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all had an inexplicable feeling for this suddenly crazy Kono Airi.

It wasn't until Rinka Konoe came over and whispered to them, "Actually, Kono-senpai has always been a fan of Sigo, and she is also the kind of fan who is particularly fascinated..."

That's too protective of calves, isn't it?

But since I'm a fan of Tsukasa Higashino... They didn't say anything.

"Speaking of which... Higashino-san, it doesn't seem to be over yet. Fujiwara Aoi had been paying attention to Tsukasa Higashino on the other side from time to time, and when he saw him start writing again, he reminded him.

Not over yet?

Everyone was interested again, and they continued to look at Tsukasa Higashino.

It's still the same picture, the same young man painting a tree on the wall, but the size and angle have changed.

From the original one-tenth the size of the wall, this second painting is already three-tenths of the size of the entire wall, and because the second painting puts the first painting in, there is a sense of perspective from near to large and far from small.

In particular, the ordinary landscape tree in the picture was portrayed more realistically by Tsukasa Higashino...

And if you look closely, you will find -

"Isn't the young man in the painting Asi?"

Higashino Chihaya touched his head and asked.

As soon as she mentioned this, the others reacted.

The young man who is painting the landscape tree in the wall painting is Tsukasa Higashino, and Tsukasa Higashino is painting the wall painting... The visual effect presents a sense of 'picture-in-picture' confusion.

Higashino didn't stop his brush because of their discussion, he washed off the paint and began to paint a third painting.

It's still the picture of the young man painting the tree, which is one point bigger than the previous one, and the first two paintings are included...

It's like an oil painting gradually becoming three-dimensional through the medium of the wall... Break away from the 'wall' and become independent in reality.

Tsukasa Higashino didn't hesitate and began to paint the fourth picture...

As in the previous one, the first three paintings are inserted into it, and the feeling of passing through space and coming to reality is even stronger.

Just when Ryoka Konoe thought that the fifth painting of Tsukasa Higashino would frame the first four paintings, Tsukasa Higashino raised the brush and put it down directly.

The fifth painting is surprisingly simple.

It was the appearance of a young man with his face sideways and a paintbrush stretched out sideways, and nothing else.

But it was this picture that was a little too simple, but Kono Airi couldn't help but rub her eyes, with an expression that she felt if her eyes were wrong.

Because the brush stretched out by the young man in this painting is aimed at the landscape tree in reality from the plane.

It feels as if the real landscape tree was drawn by a flat youth on the wall!

It's undoubtedly an amazing experience, even a little dazzling.

Layer upon layer, from far to near, and finally jump out of the picture and become reality...

The fifth painting is really simple, a young man sticking out his brush.

It does not put all the first four paintings together, but allows the whole picture to break free from the shackles and take root in reality.

Even the crowd of students who came to join in the fun couldn't help but rub their eyes in unison, as if they had seen it wrong.

Because the person in the painting reached out and drew the 'landscape tree located in reality'... Isn't this just that I was wrong?

It's just that what they don't know is that people's eyes are actually very easy to be deceived, and this kind of misalignment between reality and wall painting is actually quite common in later generations.

However, Higashino likes to call this painting method 'nesting doll' painting.

He used it here based on some of the wall paintings he had seen in later generations, with a slight modification.

This is pure cleverness, Higashino Tsukasa is not complacent, after all, this kind of painting is easy to learn, it is a simple nesting doll and wall painting to deceive the human eye.

If there is anything to boast about the painting in front of him, it may be that he painted himself with about nine points of handsomeness.

Other than that, it's nothing.

Tsukasa Higashino put down the plastic drawing plate in his hand and raised his hand to begin to clean up the messy props.

But before he could start, Ryoka Konoe and Yumi Takahashi excitedly came over to help.

"Mr. Higashino, your painting is too much... Too..."Yumi Takahashi cleaned up, and said "too" and "too" there several times before she could barely hold back a word: "It's too interesting, right?" ”

"Interesting, right?" Higashino replied heavily.

"Hmmm! Well! Yumi Takahashi nodded vigorously.

Then he took out a 10,000 yen note from his small purse, and looked excited:

"Mr. Higashino, look, can you draw me another one?"

Belch...

Yumi Takahashi's 'punch' is really out of order.

Even Tsukasa Higashino was blindsided, completely unexpecting her to say this, and fell into a brief silence.