Gu Weijing sat on the bed.

The tip of his nose lingered on the smell of sandalwood and osmanthus mixed with the girl's body after taking a bath, and he forgot his intention a little, and it was Mona who spoke first.

"Gu Weijing, let's take a look at my newly painted vacation homework, I plan to receive it in my own portfolio and use it to apply for college this year."

Mona carefully moved her easel from the balcony.

Their oil painting teacher requires everyone to complete an oil painting assignment during the holidays, regardless of the subject matter.

Gu Weijing's model painting of a Mercedes-Benz car had already been completed when he got the panel. Miss Mona's oil paintings, which have now been completed, are in the process of being completed.

Judging from Gu Weijing's current vision, one or two layers of paint is a very good work.

She painted a self-portrait.

In the painting, she wears a blue dress with fluttering corners and a flowing Irrawaddy River and a setting sun behind her.

Mona stood on the drawing board, pointed to the frame next to her, and asked in a playful tone, "Am I beautiful?" ”

Gu Weijing looked at the canvas of the oil painting and thought for a moment.

Burriman's anatomy of the characters can be applied not only to sketching, but also to oil painting, even if he does not have a lot of experience in oil painting techniques, but it is still possible to point Mona in pointing.

"Clothes."

Gu Weijing said.

"What do you mean?"

"It's like they're wearing clothes."

"So...... Otherwise? ”

Mona hugged her arms and said in an unhappy tone: "I can't draw a self-portrait with clothes on my vacation homework, am I crazy, or are you crazy?" ”

"Or ...... Are you flirting with me? ”

Mona tilted her head and looked at Gu Weijing, her eyes playful: "After school starts, I want to ask Gu Lin, what are you doing during the holidays, I haven't seen you for a month, and you learn so quickly." ”

"No, no, no, you misunderstood me......"

Gu Weijing reacted to the other party's meaning, his ears turned red all of a sudden, and he waved his hand: "I don't mean anything else, I'm just talking about oil painting." ”

"That's good...... I'd like to see what you think of my portraits. Remind you in advance, because I have to apply for the Academy of Fine Arts this year, my father hired a private tutor for me during the winter vacation, and this painting was painted under the guidance of others, if I can't tell why......

Mona looked at Gu Wei's busy appearance and felt a little funny.

She knew that the other person was an introvert, and she wanted to tease the other person.

“…… I want to look good. ”

She licked the corners of her mouth and grimaced viciously.

Miss Mona looked not overtly vicious, but a little playful.

"Why do I say the problem with the characters is the clothes?"

Gu Weijing dotted the half-finished oil painting with his fingers, his fingertips rising and falling with the curves of Mona's figure.

The girl is a dress-up girl, and she has clearly put a lot of thought into the blue dress in the painting.

The silver buttons, the brown-red scarf, and the fluttering texture of the skirt are all very good.

"I think when painting portraits, no matter what the subject is, from comics to oil paintings, or gouache or prints, the core focus is always only one - the people."

"Your clothes are beautifully painted, so beautiful that they are a bit noisy."

"When painting portraits of people in clothes, it is especially important to note that when they are not portraits of special people such as kings and generals, the most important point is that clothes are only a covering on the body. So all its folds are determined by the muscle curves of its body. ”

Gu Weijing recalled the anatomical experience he had gained in his mind, and explained very patiently.

"When you carefully observe and draw a garment, you need to express the structure of the body inside. Especially when drawing a girl in a dress, try to show the torso and limbs of the figure as much as possible. ”

"Do you remember the painting 'My Daughter Georgia'?"

Gu Weijing gave an example of them studying with a professor in an oil painting appreciation class.

"My Daughter Georgia" is a classic portrait of Naomi Alexander for his daughter, which is now in the collection of the Ludwig Museum in Germany.

In class, the teacher once focused on the brushwork and techniques of this painting.

At that time, Gu Weijing couldn't understand a lot.

Now that he had acquired Burriman's anatomical skills and the portrait in the oil painting in his memory, he was able to understand a lot at once.

"What's wrong with the painting My Daughter Georgia?"

Mona asked.

"In that painting, the clothes are manipulated into a simple and relatively elongated form, which leads the viewer's eyes up to the face of the figure."

"Before that, the painter had already shown enough muscular lines and rich demeanor on the face to attract the attention of the viewer."

Gu Weijing used his fingers to simply show the folds in the painting on the sheets.

"The silhouette and folds of the blue dress in the picture have the greatest effect of making the viewer feel that it is very comfortable, and at the same time, it also outlines the waist, hips and knees of the figure."

"Remember what the teacher said? In order to pursue a smooth enough touch of clothing, the painter reduced the viewer's distraction beyond the lines of the human body, and even the painting itself was painted on a wooden panel, rather than on a common canvas. ”

At that time, Gu Weijing also had some doubts about the substrate chosen by Naomi Alexander, because the wood board was neither convenient for carrying nor storing for ordinary canvases, nor was it suitable for the adhesion of oil paint.

Now that I think about it, it's all about highlighting the characters.

"This self-portrait you painted is not only too bright in the colors of the clothes. And it's not a good thing that there are too many decorations, all kinds of skirts, laces, and buttons that make the clothes seem to have life of their own under the brush—"

Gu Weijing's finger pointed to the limbs and head and neck of the girl in the oil frame.

"You see, this results in the head and hands that are not covered by clothing, and the feet and body are not naturally connected, as if they were put together by a doll block."

He concluded by looking at Mona one last time.

"It's kind of like that."

Mona twitched the tip of her nose.

She smiled and said, "If it weren't for my tutor who checked the line drawing and thought that the painting was fine, she would have been blinded by you." ”

As the main work of her portfolio, before Mona painted this oil painting, her father hired a senior as a personal tutor for her and instructed her in line drawing.

The other party is a student of the Royal Academy of Art in England, and if he can be admitted to the Royal Academy of Art in England, which is one of the top 30 in the world, his painting skills must be great.

Since the seniors thought that there was nothing wrong with this painting, Mona didn't take Gu Weijing's words to heart.

She wasn't very serious in the first place, she was just amusing Gu Weijing.

"Your senior......"

Gu Weijing opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

"Okay, okay, look at how much you've done, even if you pass the test. You're only seventeen years old, and even if you say something wrong, I won't laugh at you. ”

"Teach you to be a good person, when a girl asks you if the portrait is good-looking in the future, people are not fighting for your opinion, but just asking for your praise."

With a wave of her hand, Mona moved the easel back to the balcony.

"You haven't told me what you're coming to me for this time?"