In the quiet yard,

Gu Weijing solidified a small candle on the top of the drawing board with wax oil, and under the fluttering candlelight, he flew with a pen.

This new sketch is very smoothly finished.

He barely spends any time thinking about his pen, he doesn't have to put in the effort of composing his shots, and even the photos on his phone only need to glance up once in a while.

Miss Jasmine's happy expression bloomed so quietly in Gu Weijing's heart.

Almost naturally, after he completed the last line of the skirt, the relevant data of the painting appeared in front of his eyes.

[Title: "The Girl in the Spinning Blue Dress"]

[Sketching Technique: Professional Painter: 1st Order (607/5000)]

[Emotion: Feeling in the heart]

This is the first time that Gu Weijing has devoted himself to painting a painting.

It didn't take long, but a light layer of sweat was already on the nose.

Your current mission has been completed, please claim your reward. As he finished his painting, the system's prompt sounded at the right time.

Gu Weijing opened the virtual panel and clicked to claim the reward.

[Ultimate reward for chain quests: one random legendary skill]

Legendary skills are drawn differently than any previous rewards.

The system did not directly issue rewards, but instead displayed a silver book on the virtual panel.

The pages are windless and automatic,

Attractive rewards are inscribed on each page, which are then flipped in the next split second, filled with new content.

Just glanced at it casually in the flickering light, and Gu Weijing's breathing became short.

[Don Wu Daozi - "Eighty-Seven Immortals" Painting Experience (Legendary)], [Georges Seurat (French Pointillism Master) Pointillism Technique (Legendary)], [Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Childish School" Ghost Fragment (Legendary)] ......

All of these names in the awards column are great artists who shake the world, or even cultural symbols of a certain country.

The pages kept turning rapidly, like a silent invitation.

Gu Weijing stretched out his hand and put it on the skill book.

The page stops automatically when his hand touches it, and a silver page falls from it.

【Miscellaneous: Hundred Arts Tree (Legendary)】

The pages of the book turned into a silver skill tree on the system panel.

[Miscellaneous: Hundred Art Tree: Provide various (legendary) daily painting skills that painters need to master, every 1000 free experience points can be watered once for the small tree, and each time you water the hundred art tree, there is a chance that the small tree will grow a new branch]

Gu Weijing's gaze fell on the Baiyi tree.

The sapling currently has only one branch and leaf, and it looks quite bare.

Gu Weijing saw that there was a text on the branch and leaf, and this time there was no name of a certain master, but an independent painting method appeared.

【Knife Painting】

[Special effects: You will become proficient in the art of knife painting.] 】

[Brief introduction to painting: The oil painting knife has a completely different expressive power and brushstrokes from the brush, and is always a good helper for the painter when expressing thick and layered light and shadow. 】

[Note: Light fragrance is always appropriate.] 】

"Knife drawing?"

Gu Weijing's mind quickly flooded with a lot of knowledge about knife painting.

Although a painting knife is called a knife, it is actually more like a small shovel.

A palette knife is used to mix paints, and an oil painting knife is used to clean and remove excess colors from the picture, similar to an eraser.

But

In some cases where special color relationships are handled, the knife can also be used to apply paint.

The knife squeezes paint onto the canvas to create a series of smooth volumes, and forms a ridge or line of unique curved edges where the knife touches, crosses, and ends.

The ability of a knife to spread and stack oil paints is not comparable to that of a soft brush.

It's a very versatile and expressive way of painting.

Open and close.

In general, in schools, there is basically no emphasis on teaching how to draw knives.

It's good that an art student in middle school can use a drawing knife as an oil painting eraser. If you can give some play to the characteristics of the oil painting knife in the painting modeling, it will definitely be considered excellent.

Even if you've never heard of knife painting, it's normal.

A hard metal knife is far more difficult to control than a lightweight oil paintbrush, and it has the advantage of being able to shape and enrich colors, as well as the ability to have a calm touch and a well-defined shape.

The disadvantage is that it is not easy to control and accurately depict.

Not to mention art students, there are not many artists in the entire world art circle who are proficient in knife painting.

Even if you are willing to separate knife painting from traditional oil painting and become a small category such as spray painting and chalk painting, it is not impossible.

Analogous to the old-school Hong Kong-style martial arts kung fu films, the artist who delves into knife painting is a bit like a left-handed master who makes unpopular weapons such as the judge's pen and the nine-section whip.

There are basically no top artists, but the performance of the picture is very distinctive.

However, even if it is a bit niche, Gu Weijing does not dislike this skill.

For painters, there are no unpopular skills, only skills that are commonly used and not commonly used.

Oil painting knives are the most commonly used tools when painting oil paintings, second only to brushes.

After Gu Weijing carefully understood, he opened his eyes.

It is worthy of a legendary skill, and the experience brought is so rich and real.

A long, thin and narrow blade is suitable for pulling out long and thin colors; The small pear-shaped knife with a soft forged steel blade creates a color that is elastic and corrugated, like a thick layer of cream; The straight blade and the pigment mixed with thick wood chips can create a beautiful flaky texture......

Countless various painting experiences appeared in Gu Weijing's mind, and he even thought for a while that he knew more about oil painting knives than he had held a paintbrush for more than ten years.

Even without the blessing of a well-known master, this skill is not as time-limited as Menzel's drawing experience, but more like a knowledge card instilled in his mind.

Even if you don't use a painting knife to paint alone, it's good to use it as an aid to work with special colors when you paint yourself.

Gu Weijing wanted to simply try the effect of this skill.

He looked up at the moon looming among the clouds in the sky.

I had an idea in my mind.

Gu Weijing brought an oil painting knife, white paint, and small pieces of stretched dark canvas.

He just took a knife and swiped it on the canvas.

There is an extra patch on the dark picture that seems to be printed with a silver dollar stained with paint, which is incomprehensible, hazy and damp.

Like the moonlight in the sky.

……

"Xiao Gu, wait a minute."

Just when Gu Weijing packed up his things, stored his painting tools, and was about to take a ride home from his mobile phone, the porter stopped him.

"Uncle Alai, is there something wrong?"

Gu Weijing turned his head to look.

It was the caretaker of the orphanage, a lame Burmese man named Alai.

The first time people see Alai, it is a little reminiscent of the famous bell ringer Quasimodo in "Notre Dame de Paris".

Myanmar will be jokingly called the country of dwarf by some Europeans, and the average height of local men here is not very tall, only about 1.6 meters, and even many local girls are taller than men.

But Uncle Alai is very burly,

Nearly 1.9 meters, with thick limbs and dark skin, it is quite a little giant.

To be honest, the janitor's facial features are not ugly, but he has been injured on his face, the skin on one side has been scarred after being burned by high temperatures, his left foot is also a little disabled, his left hand is missing a little thumb, and his ring finger is missing.

These scars are certainly not left in normal life.

It is said that he used to be an officer in the Burmese Army, some people say that he was an anti-narcotics police officer in Yangon, and it is said that he was also in the newspapers as a national hero.

It's a pity that in the end, he was swept away by the military without honor.

Some people say that it was the drug dealers who set up a situation to retaliate, some people say that they were involved in the factional struggle between the warlords and the top government officials, and it seems that to this day, there are still some old comrades-in-arms in the army who are complaining about what happened to him.

In Myanmar, social turmoil and political undercurrents are turbulent, and anything can happen.

Considering that the address of the Good Luck Orphanage was given to him by the officer brother of the VIP VIP Protection Group before, this statement probably has some credibility.

However, Gu Weijing has no intention of exploring other people's pasts.

Life in the welfare home is varied.

As Gu Weijing went back and forth more to the Good Luck Orphanage, he discovered that it was truly a melting pot of society, and many of them, whether it was children or volunteers, had their own stories.

There are gay couples who come to adopt orphans, young students from the Department of Sociology at Yangon University, an elderly aunt whose son died in a nearby factory accident, a beautiful sister who works as an escort girl but is worried about her heart, and believers who believe in doing good deeds every day......

Compared with these people, Uncle Alai's faint recklessness of a down-and-out hero is not very eye-catching.

Moreover, after Gu Weijing came into contact with the other party, he found that the janitor Alai was not as fierce as he looked on the outside, but a very gentle middle-aged man, just a little taciturn.

He was rarely heard on weekdays, and I didn't know what he had suddenly called himself.

"Thank you for today's events, I've rarely seen her so happy."

"Jasmine?"

Gu Weijing was stunned for a moment before he realized what Uncle Alai said.

"My sister."

"Jasmine is an orphan, right?"

Theoretically, all the children in the Good Luck Orphanage are orphans, and there should be no living elders or guardians.

"My sister."

Alai accentuated his tone.

Gu Weijing no longer speaks, but only treats it as a scripture that is difficult to read.

"It's okay, Jasmine is no different from a normal child, and I have gained a lot from playing with her today."

Gu Weijing raised the sketch in Yang's hand.

"It's different." Uncle Alai shook his head and repeated seriously: "It's different. ”

"I hear you've been looking for historical information about this orphanage?"

Gu Weijing nodded.

He and Katsuko Sakai's thesis has already begun to be written.

The point of view of the article itself is not complicated, and the core content can be summed up in one sentence - "Extra!" Big Discovery! We discover an unknown early impressionist female painter who excelled in a dark art style. ”

But the paper obviously can't be written like that.

The experienced Professor Sakai spent several days thinking and packaging, as well as researching the style and direction preferred by several reviewers of Asian Art, before formulating the current title of the paper.

The Female Artists Carol Forgotten by Time: The Color Entanglement and Visual Dimension of Dark Tone Impressionist Works

It's basically the same thing as the previous vernacular.

But in the vernacular, let alone aiming at the top A&HCI journal like Asian Art, it is difficult to publish a ninth-rate paper.

The same content, after being packaged by Professor Sakai, suddenly seems to be tall, and immediately makes the reader feel unclear.

This is the art of the English Eight Strands.

The outline of writing a dissertation is divided into two main aspects.

The first part identifies the identity and time of creation of Carol, the owner of the painting.

The second part is based on "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm", and compares and summarizes the treatment and use of light and color when Monet and Degas, the representative painters of Impressionism in history, used dark pigments.

In fact, the latter part of the light is not difficult,

With Professor Sakai's guidance, even if it is a simple summary of the style of existing impressionist works, it can be written as a flowery review of the nature of a paper.

But this kind of paper is more watery,

As long as you are a professor who knows a lot about art, anyone can write and write as much as you want.

Therefore, these contents can only be used as flesh and blood to fill the skeleton, so that the paper will not look thin.

The real selling point should also be placed on the mysterious female painter Carol and "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm".

Gu Weijing has been collecting news about Carol all this time.

There were too many foreigners in Burma in the 19th century, and there were no official passport records or anything, so it was difficult to find clues.

His focus was on the building of the Good Luck Orphanage.

Gu Weijing has almost confirmed that the church in "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" is the Good Luck Orphanage.

He asked the abbotess to find an old photograph of the Virgin Mary when howitzers destroyed the church during the Anglo-Burmese War.

The photo was taken in 1890,

Therefore, it is almost certain that the painting was created before 1890.

But stronger evidence is nowhere to be found.

The painting was painted in 1890, 1880, and 1875. Basically, every ten years, or even five years, the value of the paper is different.

Gu Weijing is not an immortal, and the luck factor of being able to find this precious painting accounts for most of it. In addition to old photos, he could not find more valuable information.

At this time, I heard Uncle Alai mention this matter,

Gu Weijing was a little confused.

"Is there anything you want to tell me?"

"I remember the iron cabinet with the church logo in the basement storage room, and some documents that had been kept in oilskin paper. The dean didn't understand English and didn't pay attention. I went to look through it in the afternoon, and it should be the church's sermon journal and donor donation records, which I think might be useful to you. While playing with Jasmine, I found it. ”

Uncle Arley took out a wooden box from a drawer in the porter's cottage.

Gu Weijing took a look at it, and his spirit suddenly lifted up.

He recognized what it was—

This is a sermon journal left by a church!

The church in the West is like a small government.

For a long time, it did play the role of government. The church has its own legal system, functional departments, and naturally there are things like work reports.

The archives left by the missionaries have always been good historiographical materials.

If the painter Carol had been a member of the parish or had donated money to the home, she would probably have left her name.

"Thank you so much......" Gu Weijing didn't know what to say.

"Don't thank me, spend more time with Jasmine, she likes you very much."

Uncle Alai waved his hand and did not take a single cloud with him.

Sorry, there's something to do tonight, it's only four thousand.

(End of chapter)