Kou Ko took out her phone from her pocket, opened INS, and clicked on the home account named [Katsuko] in the watchlist.

"Ever heard of the Shwedagon Pagoda Fresco Restoration project? This is the most important project of Myanmar officials to raise their international image this year, and the host of the project is the master painter Cao Xuan. ”

She stuck out her tongue: "During the winter vacation, my father also received an order to strengthen the police patrol in the Shwedagon Pagoda area. I heard that when this world-class artist came to the airport to pick him up, several relevant ministerial-level senior officials and bigwigs were all present in person, which was very grand. ”

Koukou's father, a senior police officer in Yangon, was a high-ranking police officer, so he was naturally aware of such important government projects.

"Mr. Cao Xuan?"

Mona wrinkled her nose slightly.

Even though she doesn't paint Chinese, Cao Lao's name is as influential in the Asian art world as the Beatles' position in the rock field.

But there was nothing else she felt in her heart except surprise.

Such an artistic godfather was simply too far from her daily life.

Far enough away with Mona's reason, she can't even give birth to the mind of yearning.

"What does this have to do with Katsuko Sakai's transfer?"

She mentioned on Instagram that she was one of the 47 artists invited to the project, and that she was only a teenager who was able to work with a big name like Cao Xuan. Hum...... I've got to take the chance, and even if I can't get this chick, I'm going to have to get some of her handwriting. ”

Coco stared at the easel in front of her, her eyes lit up like a cat that had seen a fish.

"This is the gold mine in front of us, and in another ten or twenty years, when this Miss Sakai also becomes an internationally renowned painter, maybe a painting can be exchanged for a house with a garden."

Mona sighed as she looked at the easel in front of her, where people kept stopping to look at it.

The class gap was so profoundly displayed in front of the proud president of the women's student union.

Everyone is the same age, wears the same school uniform, and paints in the same studio.

Even Mona is a sought-after figure in school.

But she clearly knew,

It was just a brief interlacing of Miss Sakai's fate and that of ordinary people like them.

Mona's life plan is nothing more than to become a delicate and spacious wife who is a little wealthy, marry a decent husband, have two children, and live a quiet and elegant petty bourgeois life.

And with Sakai Katsuko's talent for painting, with her family background, with the opportunity she can get.

The spotlight of the whole world of art awaits her in the not-too-distant future.

All people need to do is go step by step.

Fate has always been extraordinarily good for some people.

"Mona, I've been looking for you for a long time, are you here?"

A furry arm suddenly rests on Mona's shoulder, interrupting her thoughts and sentimentality.

Mona turned around and saw the tall Jerry.

Jerry's pale blonde hair shone in the sun.

In fact, he was not born with blonde hair, but he himself was happy to show half of his "noble" Germanic ancestry among his Burmese classmates.

That's why my hair was dyed blonde all the time.

It turns out that many girls in the school think his appearance is very sexy.

In addition, Jerry's living habits are also very European.

Every day before going to school, I spray a lot of special cologne on my shoulders, collar or armpits.

Jerry thinks it will make him smell more "Strong" and have the air of a foreign man.

Mona felt like she was enveloped by a strong smell of fermented herbs.

Resisting the urge to sneeze, she took two steps back slightly, shaking off the arm from her shoulder.

"Is there something wrong?" She asked, frowning.

"Miss Mona, can I invite you to the cat café in the afternoon? There are seven adorable British bobtails. ”

Jerry had a sunny and loving smile on his face.

He was a little disappointed when he saw Mona and showed a heartfelt expression, but immediately added, "It's not a date, it's just a social welfare project introduced by my father." There is a team of college student directors who want to shoot a micro-film about the newly sheltered loving stray cats, which will be uploaded to YouTube when the time comes. This kind of social activity is a plus when applying to university. I also have a spot here for the heroine of a micro-movie. ”

There was seduction in Jerry's tone.

Many foreign universities have hard requirements for the duration of social service when applying.

Generally speaking, if you want to be fooled, ask the intermediary to issue a certificate, and find a cooperative NGO to stamp it to be qualified.

The micro-film in Jerry's mouth belongs to the category of ordinary qualifications.

It's a bonus point.

If the micro-film can have hundreds of thousands of views, it can even be beautified on the resume as "having a certain social influence".

In particular, it is also about animal protection.

The admissions team of a prestigious foreign university prefers this kind of social activity, which can save you a lot of trouble when applying to universities.

"I'm sorry, Jerry, but I want to continue working on my portfolio in the studio in the afternoon, it's not very convenient."

Mona did have a momentary heartbeat in her heart, but she still refused.

Two people go to a pet store to shoot a micro-movie together, what is the difference between this and dating.

Jerry, a popular playboy on campus in the past, is not stupid for what is in his heart.

Eat other people's soft mouths, take other people's soft hands.

Such a good project of mixing social welfare points, some people in the school are willing, why should they find themselves.

Those money worshippers on campus who use their boyfriends as mobile wallets when their legs are parted, may not matter.

But Mona is not such a girl.

"Okay, what about next weekend?"

The sunny smile on Jerry's face remained the same.

"Forget it."

Mona still shook her head coldly, she tossed the empty coffee paper cup in her hand into the trash can on the side, and turned to walk towards her half-drawn drawing board.

Kou looked at Jerry, who was leaving with a sneer, looked at Mona's back, and sneered.

"Cut, hard mouth."

Before Mona returned to a half-painted still life sketch she had painted, she hesitated for a long time, but still took out her mobile phone from her pocket and found Gu Weijing, who she hadn't been in touch with for a long time.

"How many days have you not been to the studio! I know if it's about to be the school fair! ”

She typed halfway through and then deleted it again.

I'm not,

Who cares if he lives or dies?

"I'm in the school studio on Sunday afternoon, and you don't like to come."

Mona hesitated, and felt that this was too deliberate.

She thought about it for a moment and deleted the second half of the sentence.

"I paint in the school studio on Sunday afternoons."

Mona read through the short message several times, and finally pressed the send button.

……

Gu Weijing didn't notice the new message on his phone.

At this time, he was in the courtyard of the Good Luck Orphanage.

Gu Weijing frowned and stood in front of the drawing board, looking at the canvas in front of him.

Under the guidance of Director Tonks, he came up with the idea to create a work of art that was compatible with the styles of Chinese painting and oil painting.

He decided to start writing right away.

Gu Weijing gave up his favorite impressionist style of color and dot painting, and decided to adopt the traditional oil painting method that favored the classical style - giving up the abstract visual impression beauty, and taking the pursuit of precision and rigor of the lines as the first priority, which was used to match the oriental style of gongbi painting.

There's no way around it.

It's not that the impressionists are bad.

Impressionism itself is a product of the influence of the oriental painting style, pursuing the enjoyment of the spirit and the overall macro impression of the picture.

The principles of art and the traditional freehand painting method of Chinese painting actually go well together.

However, he is still quite sober,

Matching is collocation, but also consider your own ability.

He knew that his current understanding of impressionism and freehand painting styles would definitely not be able to master such high-end painting techniques.

The Impressionists themselves are more stream-of-consciousness in their pictures,

Freehand painting is the pursuit of divine consciousness more than the pursuit of substance.

The difficulty of blending these two painting styles with each other is similar to mixing two formless and insubstantial gases in the void with both hands.

If you want to do this, it is impossible for non-master painting skills.

With the level of painting that I have just entered the professional painter, the final result of my painting will definitely be "abstract" and outrageous.

I want to draw a fusion painting,

With Gu Weijing's current level of painting, there is not much room for free choice.

After thinking about it again and again,

He decided to take the easiest approach at the moment.

It is based on the rigorous line structure of Chinese gongbi painting, and the colors and brushstrokes of oil painting are the flesh and blood details.

The result is a painting that tends to be realistic.

Realism is always the easiest way to draw.

This technique is certainly not simple, but it is certainly more feasible than trying to combine the imagery essence of impressionism and freehand painting.

Since there is no way to pursue the spirit, we can only pursue the form.

He also thought about the theme of the painting.

The inspiration was taken from Carroll's "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm".

The background of the courtyard is also the Good Luck Orphanage, which he has already painted, but the picture is dominated by children such as Jasmine and several volunteer workers of different ages.

With Gu Weijing's current ability, the figure is a choice that can express emotions better than simple architecture.

The light is taken during the day.

Bright sunlight is also easier to depict vividly than the changing colors of a thunderstorm.

Theoretically, this should not be difficult to draw.

Since coming to the Good Luck Orphanage this morning, Gu Weijing has been standing in front of the drawing board for six or seven hours.

Right now

The finished work was laid out in front of his eyes.

Church in the sun, running kids, volunteers with armbands......

The whole work looks rough and seems to be presentable, but if he is a little more serious, Gu Weijing finds a problem.

"Weird."

Whether it is in the process of painting or the final effect of this painting, the biggest feeling of Gu Weijing is the word weird.

He casually threw over a calligraphy and painting appraisal technique.

[Title: "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun"]

[Sketch Technique: 1705/5000]

[Oil Painting Technique: 1302/5000]

——__——__——__——

[Chinese Painting Technique: 609/5000]

[Emotion: perfunctory]

The emotional evaluation is only perfunctory, and it is almost the worst rating his work has received in recent days.

It's no surprise that Gu Weijing is here.

Not to mention empathizing with the characters on the screen, halfway through the painting, he was tormented by that strange feeling and almost couldn't draw.

Just because it was his first attempt, he wanted to have a beginning and an end.

Gu Weijing pinched his nose and finished the painting.

He found that the data bar of the virtual panel this time was different from the previous ones.

There is a dark fence that is uneven like a shark's tooth, cutting the gap between sketching, oil painting techniques and Chinese painting techniques.

It seems that the system does not recognize this as a fusion painting, but only thinks that it is like two painting methods like two pieces of plasticine of different colors, forcibly pinched together with external force.

From an artistic point of view, this is definitely a very failed painting.

The look and feel is not even as good as a simple oil painting.

Gu Weijing shook his head.

Obviously, his fine brush lines and oil painting techniques have reached the level of professional painters.

It stands to reason that

There shouldn't be any big mistakes,

But the final art effect is very weird.

If you think of a picture scroll as a beauty.

Gu Weijing originally hoped that she would have the beauty of the East and the charm of the West, that is, warm and exquisite.

But in the end, the effect is like a ghost with a painted skin.

The left half of her face has grown into Lin Daiyu, and the right half of her face has grown into Sophie Marceau.

That's a bit of a madness

There is nothing wrong with either technique alone.

Together,

But it has become a four-like.

He was not discouraged, although the painting did not live up to his expectations.

can be fused with such a high-end painting method, if Gu Weijing can succeed at one time, he will feel strange.

"Just, why is this happening?"

Unable to resolve the disharmony of the picture, this painting method was almost sentenced to death.

Gu Weijing was distressed in the courtyard for a long time, but he didn't come up with a final solution.

"Wait, I'm stupid."

He suddenly realized that he was different from before, and Gu Weijing was now also a teacher person.

Instead of meditating here, ask the experts.

……

"Professor Lin, can you give me some pointers? I'm in trouble. ”

The time in Beijing is more than an hour behind Myanmar time.

Professor Lin Tao, who had just woken up from a nap, received the first sentence of Gu Weijing's call, and heard the straight to the point from the other side.

"Oh, what's your problem?"

Professor Lin Tao did not refuse.

As Gu Weijing's current "teacher", Professor Lin Tao felt that Cao Lao's decision to accept closed disciples was a bit hasty.

For Gu Weijing, he is still very satisfied with the child as a whole.

Serious attitude, talented and intelligent, entering the country quickly.

Teaching a student who is not enlightened and has no artistic cells is easy to become more and more popular, but teaching a good student like Gu Weijing is the more he teaches, the more he likes it.

Even if it is not a weekly teaching time, Professor Lin Tao does not feel that Gu Weijing has bothered him.

"I sent you the picture."

Gu Weijing said.

PROFESSOR LIN TAO TOOK OUT THE IPAD WITH A LARGER SCREEN AND LOOKED AT THE PICTURE SENT BY GU WEIJING.

Hey?

The first time he saw Gu Weijing's canvas, he was shocked.

(End of chapter)