"Of course it's good." Gu Weijing nodded.

Uncle Sakai was very thoughtful.

He was just a middle school student, even if he was a student of an ordinary art academy, he would have been dizzy when he saw the names of that long list of reviewers, let alone distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of these reviewers.

You can only fill in the recommended reviewer option casually like buying a lottery ticket, and pray that you will meet a kinder reviewer.

Then again,

Asian Art, a top-notch liberal arts journal, is not intended for ordinary art academy students or even ordinary professors.

"Well, the only drawback is that Asian Art is a semi-annual journal, and the review time is relatively long, only two issues a year. We may have to wait for the layout for a while, so you don't have to rush to sell the paintings. ”

Top journals like Asian Art are rather cold and prefer a lack of manuscripts to an abundance.

Each article has been carefully polished, in stark contrast to those who can't wait to come to the last issue every week.

However, Uncle Sakai judged that it would not be difficult for them to pass the manuscript smoothly, and it was already close to March, so if it was fast, it would be published at the end of April, and it would be published in more than a month.

That's not too long for a top-tier journal paper.

The title of "Asian Art" is also worth her waiting.

The Taylor Journal of Art has more of an advantage than European periodicals, and if it wants to develop in Europe in the future, it is not much less well-known than Asian Art.

At the same time, the publication cycle is much shorter.

In addition, there is still a gap between the academic status and the old bull magazine "Asian Art".

Katsuko Sakai was worried that Gu Weijing might be anxious about the publication of the paper, so that Carol's oil painting could be realized quickly.

That's going to be a lot of money.

From the moment Katsuko was born, if there is no accident in this life, there is no need to worry about money at all, and she doesn't care too much about money.

But she can't live for herself.

The vast majority of ordinary people in the world must still want to make the paper famous for the painting as soon as possible, and then sell the painting.

"No, I'm not going to sell this painting in a hurry for the time being, I haven't fully grasped the essence of Carroll's painting, I almost feel it." Gu Weijing shook his head.

He hasn't eaten up the system rewards yet, and after selling the paintings, his progress in copying will be greatly reversed.

"Didn't grasp the essence...... Actually, you've already drawn very well. ”

Katsuko Sakai thought for a moment and suggested, "It's hard to grasp the essence of this kind of Impressionist painting with a dark background. However, I have a knack for color mixing when I paint, and I don't know if it sounds helpful. ”

"Huh?" Gu Weijing was curious.

"You can try using a transparent acrylic sheet as a color grading tool. Compare the base color on the canvas and arrange the paint. When I was just learning to paint, my father was inspired by my mother's choice of cosmetics and taught me how to start painting. It is usually used when figuring out the skin color of a painted person or the complex changing color tones, and it is very useful. ”

"No, I'll show you."

There were no painting tools in the study room, and Katsuko Sakai pulled out a clear plastic ruler from her stationery bag as she spoke.

She unbuttoned the sleeve of her school uniform and folded up the fabric on the wrist of her shirt, revealing half of her white jade arms.

Katsuko's skin is very white, not as white as snow, like a medicinal lilac in the park in April and May, white and greasy with pink dripping out, very girly.

She put the transparent ruler on her forearm, wiped three short tubes of lipstick from her pocket, and handed it to Gu Weijing.

"This is Chanel's maple syrup, coral, and cream cherry, which my mother gave me this morning."

"What?" Gu Weijing used a confused expression to express that he didn't understand what Miss Katsuko was saying at all.

"It's the name of the lipstick, you can just use it as an oil paintbrush and scribble it on a ruler?" Katsuko Sakai suggested.

Gu Weijing took off the cap on the lipstick and twisted out the three almost identical lipstick heads respectively.

He studied art, so he didn't see the nuances of the color of the three lipsticks like many boys who think all lipsticks are the same.

The ability of these luxury brands to choose names is unbelievable, but the colors are basically red, not much different.

Gu Weijing used lipstick to lightly apply the ruler on Katsuko's forearm, and immediately understood the meaning of Sakai Katsuko asking him to prepare a transparent acrylic board for color toning.

The girl's arm resembles an oil canvas with a powdery white background and an extremely delicate texture.

The lipstick is a paintbrush and the ruler is a palette, and the three lipsticks, which originally had only a slight difference in shades, suddenly presented a different picture performance against the backdrop of Miss Sakai's smooth skin.

The color of the coral is on the cooler side, the color of the cream cherry is on the warmer side, and the color of the maple pulp is in between.

"Well, it's a good idea to have a special palette that can be like a chameleon, bringing out the relationship between the background color and the pigment at any time."

Gu Weijing is the trick of one point.

When he paints, he doesn't have a high demand for a color palette, and uses the most basic three-wood palette that Amazon buys online for five dollars.

But Gu Weijing has heard that some great painters like to customize their own color palettes.

Light, dark, and even distinguish different shades to number the palette.

The Romantic painter David Fuzelli, who was once selected for the official salon of France, is a representative of this kind of artist who has high requirements for painting tools.

David once paid 600 francs to a Parisian painter to order 92 palettes of different shades, each from light to dark, from pure white to dark black.

This is not because of the painter's special fetishes, or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The advantage is that the painter can choose different color palettes according to different painting background colors and complex background character texture colors.

Beginners use the white palette the most, because the canvas is white, and the white palette is the easiest to bring out the original colors of the pigment on it.

And the background color of oil painting is not always white.

An oil painting on a black background, the pigments you put together on a white palette, and the colors you show on a dark background after you put pen to paper.

Because the chiaroscuro relationship of the picture is different, the feeling is also subtle.

Based on this reason, if there are conditions.

When painting curtain colors and rainy days, you can use a gray-brown color palette. When painting the jungle, you can use the emerald color palette, and when the sun sets, you can use the golden red palette as the base color to match the paint, which can make it easier to find the color you want.

Uncle Sakai's idea is a simplified and advanced version of David.

The plastic palette doesn't feel as good with a pen as the wooden palette.

But this kind of acrylic transparent plate can directly compare the pigment you have mixed with each other on the background color and even the original picture you have just finished.

According to the paint tone of the original work, it is easier to depict the texture brightness and landscape color of the fine texture.

"By the way, these three shades, Gu Weijing, which one do you prefer?"

Katsuko Sakai picked up the ruler on her arm, glanced at the boy quietly, and asked casually.

"I don't know lipstick, and I don't know how to paint makeup."

Gu Weijing didn't dare to give random advice.

Before Miss Sakai, his only close friend of the opposite sex was Mona.

Mona likes to wear makeup a lot of the time,

She knew that Gu Weijing didn't know much about these things, and her family conditions were average. So Mona never asks herself to buy her cosmetics as a birthday gift or anything.

Even the prices of those bottles and cans, lipstick and eye cream in the bedroom would not be told to Gu Weijing, probably because he was worried about putting psychological pressure on Gu Weijing.

At this point, Miss Mona has always taken good care of Gu Weijing.

However, she usually doesn't consult her little boyfriend's aesthetic opinions, and she can draw however she likes.

Gu Weijing only needs to say that when they go out to play together, they can be good-looking, really good-looking and very good-looking.

"It's okay, I don't really understand it, these three lipsticks were all stuffed into me by my mother, so ask your boy's opinion."

I heard that my baby daughter, who has always been plain-faced, finally opened her mind and wanted to make her makeup more beautiful.

In the morning, Mrs. Sakai stared at Katsuko Sakai for a moment in a half-happy and half-complicated mood, and chose three lipsticks from the drawer and threw them to her daughter.

After Katsuko Sakai came to the study room early, she hesitated for a long time in front of the small vanity mirror, and she was not sure which lipstick color was more suitable for her.

"Give me a suggestion, just think of it as a painting, use my suit as a canvas. If you were to paint on me, what kind of color would you think would look better as a color scheme? Katsuko Sakai lowered her head and straightened her hair.

Skin as a drawing board?

Gu Weijing suddenly appeared in his mind a classic passage in the Dongxia biographical movie "Liu Rushi" that he had watched on Douban more than ten years ago, which was quite highly evaluated.

Liu Ru is a famous prostitute of one of the famous Qin Huai Bayan in the Ming Dynasty, famous for her style and bones, but she can be married by Qian Qianyi, a literary master at that time, with the specifications of a wife.

On the wedding night, the talented girl Liu took off her wedding dress and asked Qian Qianyi to draw a flower on her smooth back with a brush.

The tulle is low, the skin is as white as jade, and the danqing is ink......

The old man of Wenzong Qian in the late Ming Dynasty was not guaranteed in the later years of history, and his notoriety caught up with the number one traitor of the same period, Hong Chengchou, and Scholar Hong was another matter.

At least artistically, the shot is pretty beautiful.

Gu Weijing glanced at Miss Katsuko's slender waist, shook his head hard, slapped himself twice in his heart, and secretly threw aside the idea that his heart was so fragrant that it made people bleed.

He knew that Katsuko couldn't be telling meat jokes or teasing himself at this time.

Ms. Sakai is just an example.

In addition, painting on naked skin clothes has a long tradition in Toei. Historically, there has been a custom of tattooing tancheong in the coastal areas of Japan, and women like to use the slurry of natural herbs to draw patterns such as brocade and flowers on their backs and arms.

Later, under the Confucian idea of "the body is skinned, and the parents dare not destroy it" in the Dongxia cultural circle, men also began to use painting instead of tattoos.

This custom was passed down until the Edo and even Meiji periods. In the early ukiyo-e prints that are still in circulation today, there are a large number of samurai and kabuki with tattoos or paintings on their bodies.

The content of the drawing has changed from simple flowers, birds, fish, and insects to local mythological stories, as well as classic stories in local scripts such as "The Tale of the Heike Family".

In modern times, the British Academy of Fine Arts has done a survey, and the acceptance of body painting is only ranked first in a few European countries such as New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Australia, and in Asian countries with a conservative overall cultural tendency.

"Cherry cream, huh?"

Gu Weijing looked at the three lipsticks on the ruler, and looked at his nose and nose: "This color is softer, which is suitable for Miss Shengzi's warm pink complexion." ”

"Cherry cream."

"yes, and the name sounds cute." Gu Weijing grabbed his hair.

Katsuko Sakai took out the lipstick with the words "Cherry and Cream" written on it in gilded small letters, and gently lit it between her lips.

"Huh?"

She pursed her lips and showed the color between her lips to the boys, and made a playful nasal voice asking for the other person's opinion, which looked very cute.

Gu Weijing was slightly stunned.

"Is it pretty?"

"Beautiful."

Miss Sakai is such a nice girl, cold and cute, and she has a common language.

Even if it has nothing to do with emotion,

It's also a pleasure to work with such a young lady. Even if she just stays quietly next to her, she is as pleasing to the eye as a beautiful big doll.

"By the way, speaking of drawing, after the thesis is completed, Katsuko will continue to paint in the school's public studio?" Gu Weijing sent out an invitation: "You are also copying and studying Ms. Carroll's "Old Church", can I invite you to one of my outdoor studios?" ”

After copying more than a dozen old churches, Gu Weijing has long been able to grasp the similarity of the pen.

However, in the evaluation of the system panel, the similarity between his current copy work and the original "Old Church" is stuck at about 35%.

The highest one, also only 37.6%.

The baseline given by the system to obtain intermediate treasure chests is 50%, and the last 10 percent is like an insurmountable barrier.

Gu Weijing could vaguely feel that 50% was a threshold.

Although he still has room for improvement in his grasp of color and pigment.

But if you really want to achieve a degree of similarity of more than 50%, the pursuit is no longer only the matching of pigments, but also the meticulousness of the brush...... It's a deeper feeling, a temperament of painting as a whole.

To put it in more layman's terms, from asking for a resemblance to asking for a resemblance.

In addition to the appearance of thunderstorm clouds, the main body of the picture, the old church, and the little change of candlelight, are quite different from the temperament of this master painter.

If you want to achieve god-likeness, the best way to paint on the spot like the female painter Carol is to do it.

Gu Weijing knew that Katsuko Sakai had been copying "Old Church" recently, so he suggested that the other party should change the studio to an orphanage like himself.

"It's the Good Luck Orphanage, right, you want to collect wind on the spot."

Katsuko Sakai knew the location of this Carol's original film, and there was a look of yearning in her eyes.

(End of chapter)