If Gu Weijing wanted to copy the "Douhua Picture" in the past, in the face of the detailed plant texture brushwork on the painting scroll, there must be a feeling that a dog eats a hedgehog and has no way to start.

Chinese painting and calligraphy have the same origin,

Compared with the Western painters who evolved from "painters" and brushed wildly on the canvas with a small brush, the field of Chinese painting is more disciplined about holding and using brushes.

Just a small soft brush,

There are six ways to use the pen in the center, the flank, the shun, the back, the scattered front, and the Tibetan front, as well as the five different writing techniques of burning, thick, heavy, light, and clear.

If you count the smaller categories that deal with different picture scenes, more detailed ones.

Then there are no less than twenty or thirty different ways of drawing ink lines.

Countless painters have spent their lives on these intricate brushes.

When Gu Weijing learned to speak, he began to paint Chinese paintings.

In the past six months, there have been experts like Cao Lao and Professor Lin Tao, but they are far from daring to say that they have eaten all the brushstrokes.

When he originally painted the branches and leaves of flowers, he liked to use the most rounded and strong center, with water and half of the heavy ink of the pigment to outline the edges with a smooth brush.

This is the most robust option,

The way of center forward and straight stroke is like a word cone in a car repair tool, and it is very versatile.

You can use it to screw screws, Phillips screws, pry a decorative board, dismantle a courier, and open a can if necessary.

Anyway, I can do anything.

There's nothing wrong with being wrong, it's just not good enough.

A lot of them are not good enough to pile up, and in the final picture, there will be a very different picture perception.

"The original leaf vein of this painting...... That's how I use my pen! ”

Gu Weijing imitated the hints in his mind, and compared with the texture details of the high-imitation "Douhua Picture" on the side, he suddenly felt empowered.

It is difficult to speculate on violin technique based on symphony,

You can look at the violin sheet music and enjoy the timbre of the symphony, which is a geometric drop in difficulty for those who know basic music theory.

At this time, those originally obscure brushstrokes were like cobwebs separated by skillful hands, peeling off the cocoon little by little, revealing the mystery in his eyes.

The way in which the branches of Lang Shining's bean blossom diagram are drawn with a reverse pen along the growth direction of the leaf veins.

"It's not a reverse brush in the traditional sense, it should also incorporate some brush techniques of Chinese painting staining."

Gu Weijing observed the examples of painting methods in the "Summary of the Essence of New Style Painting" in his mind.

He felt the trajectory of the pen in the example model in the book in his head—

In the process of Lang Shining's pen, the pen blade seems to tremble slightly deliberately, and the pen breaks the original smooth color without shaking, and the leaf veins present a finely toothed natural edge, which is completely expressed.

Lifelike.

"No, it's not so much that it has to be understood in terms of staining, but ...... This is more like the texture of the brushstrokes that are very common in oil paintings, using the fluff of the brush to gently rub the surface of the linen cloth! ”

Gu Weijing clenched his fists and muttered to himself.

Oil painters do not have too many rules and regulations for using the brush, but the painter pays great attention to the combination of brushwork and pigment color.

Perhaps because of cultural customs, Western-style painters are more "flowing" than Chinese painting with fixed rules.

Different themes, different substrates, different mediums......

Famous oil painters have their own little habits when using the brush in the face of various situations.

Techniques such as slowly brushing the brush across the canvas or trying to drag the brush in different directions can give the paint a textured color.

Not only can it be closer to the effect of natural light, but at the same time, it is also a way to express the artist's personal feelings.

The most obvious example of this is Van Gogh.

Among the many oil painters of his time, Van Gogh's most significant personal brushwork style is that he likes to press the paint-stained brush on the canvas and rotate while oscillating to form a vortex-shaped specific brushstroke, which is used to express the psychedelic starry sky and crazy emotional state.

And Lang Shining's painting method obviously has a certain shadow of the Western-style brush.

However, it is softer, much more delicate, and requires more control of the wrist.

Gu Weijing judged,

This is probably due to the fact that oil paintings are viscous paste-like pigments, while works in the style of Chinese painting prefer water-soluble plant pigments.

The pigment has different adhesion and blending ability on the substrate, so the brushwork will also be slightly adjusted.

"Interesting."

Gu Weijing slowly put down the pen.

The bean blossom grows silently on the surface of the rice paper, and the emerald green branches and small lilac petals are delicate.

Gu Weijing's writing is very smooth, and there is almost no sense of stagnation.

With the assistance of "Summary of the Essence of New Style Painting", just like when doing geometry homework, the teacher of the system has listed all the solution ideas and auxiliary lines to draw.

The painting is natural and freehand.

The type of "Bean Flower in the Atlas of Immortal Calyx Changchun" in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Eastern Xia, is ink and color on silk.

The so-called silk color painting refers to the use of Chinese painting colors to paint on silk.

If Gu Weijing also used silk when he practiced copying, it would be too luxurious, and good silk was much more expensive than flax oil canvas, so he used ordinary cooked rice paper.

Cooked rice paper with better water absorption can show the characteristics of fine brushwork.

Gu Weijing constantly verified the content in the knowledge card with the original imitation of "Fairy Calyx Changchun Atlas: Bean Flower", as well as his own paintings.

This kind of flowing water, the feeling of understanding the original incomprehensible painting method one by one, simply made him so cool that he flew up.

Soon, Gu Weijing completed the plant body of the bean curd.

Chinese painting consumes less time than oil painting, and it is also relatively speaking.

This "Douhua Picture" is not a very large work, but in addition to the bean curd, there are a lot of scenery such as grass and stones, flying birds, etc.

Really according to the auxiliary guidance of "Summary of the Essence of New Style Painting", after painting all the strokes, he will not sleep.

After copying this bean curd, he put down his paintbrush.

Probably because only a small part of the original work was drawn, the system does not give a percentage of the similarity of the copy.

【Calyx Changchun Atlas of Bean Flower (Part of the Copy)】

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[Mood: Simple work]

Gu Weijing hugged his arms and looked at the effect, very satisfied.

"Awesome!"

The original Lang Shining's painting techniques are still far superior to him, but the overall charm and style have been seven or eight percent.

If he is thick-skinned, Gu Weijing can think that he has already painted both form and spirit.

"Still drawing?"

Old man Gu was wearing pajamas, with a book of "Zero-based Photography for the Elderly" under his armpit, and appeared beside him like a ghost.

"I didn't even notice when you came down."

Gu Weijing raised his head and saw his grandfather, slightly frightened.

"Actually, I didn't come for a few minutes, and I didn't bother you when I saw you drawing." Gu Tongxiang waved his hand, signaling that his grandson didn't need to be affected by himself.

Elderly people tend to be unable to sleep.

Old man Gu was lying on the bed and flipped through a few pages of hobby textbooks for the elderly, and when he was about to go to bed, he heard movement in the façade of the gallery downstairs, so he came down to take a look, and just happened to see his grandson painting.

For Gu Weijing, the old man has always been very precious.

Good talent, hard enough, good luck.

can get the favor of Cao Lao, as long as you go step by step, there is no reason not to make a career.

"Huh? Imitation of Lang Shining? ”

Gu Tongxiang suddenly raised his eyebrows.

When he went downstairs, he put his glasses on the head of the bed in his bedroom, and he couldn't see the details.

But I still roughly saw that the scroll next to my grandson Gu Weijing was the "Douhua of the Atlas of Immortal Calyx Changchun" that he had entered from the Eastern Xia, a masterpiece by Lang Shining in the Qing Dynasty.

"Well, it feels pretty good to draw."

Gu Weijing nodded.

"Feeling good? He is not very old, and his tone is not small. ”

Old man Gu Tongxiang was happy.

He gently patted Gu Weijing's shoulder with the textbook under his armpit, and said, "At my age, I don't dare to say that Lang Shining can draw one or two points of fur, how old are you, just dare to say that it feels good." I am not afraid of the wind flashing my tongue. ”

Regarding Lang Shining's paintings, Gu Tongxiang still thinks that he has a lot of right to speak.

The imitation of Lang Shining's new style painting in the store sells so well that Old Man Gu has already moved the idea of imitating Lang Shining by himself.

Whether he can draw the essence of Lang Shining, Gu Tongxiang can't even think about it.

Lang Shining does not belong to Holbein's kind of sickly rigorous painter who can control the extreme precision of millimeters with brush lines, nor is he like Zheng Banqiao, a master of calligraphy and painting who incorporates Ouyang Xun's italic pen frame chapter method in his paintings.

Using a pen itself is not complicated.

If you can imitate one or two points of fur, just bluffing foreigners, you will have a lot of money.

The old man checked all kinds of information, sat for three months against Lang Shining's album, and even reported a cheap tour group for the elderly to visit Lang Shining's authentic works.

Saying goes

God rewards hard work, as long as you work hard, you will be rewarded.

After a quarter of hard work, countless hardships, and a small handful of precious hair, Gu Tongxiang finally realized and discovered a secret-

I am not imitating Lang Shining's material.

The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.

This method looks simple, but it's so fucking hard to draw.

If you open a gallery at home in a tourist attraction, you will inevitably have to draw imitations.

Those works that are much more difficult than Lang Shining's paintings, such as "Luo Shen Futu", "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map", and "Five Horses", which are worth such national treasures as difficult to estimate with money, have also been imitated by Mr. Gu.

Painting can be drawn,

In fact, it is nothing more than a question of the quality of the painting.

But none of these masterpieces are like Lang Shining's works, which make Mr. Gu paint so troubled.

It's weird.

The chef, who has been spooning all his life, wants him to forcibly combine the salty and spicy Hunan cuisine with the sweet Jiangnan stir-fry, but the result is very awkward, and the more he paints, the more popular it becomes.

Old Man Gu looked at his three-month study results, and after thinking about it carefully, he judged that foreigners just like exotic customs, and they shouldn't have hunted for this taste.

This kind of thing, hanging outside to sell, not only really ignores conscience, but also easy to smash the signboard.

Gu Tongxiang lit a brazier in the courtyard and burned all his "failed products", and never mentioned the imitation of Lang Shining again.

"Lang Shining's painting method is difficult."

He didn't expect his grandson to follow his own path.

"Don't be discouraged if you don't paint well, if the trick of new style painting is easy to figure out, where can you talk about Lang Shining?" Gu Tongxiang looked at Gu Weijing's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and was comforted.

"You have to learn from my grandfather and me, if you don't understand painting, it's not a shame at all, you have to hold your mouth hard to be ashamed."

When the imitation painting failed, the old man's mentality was still quite good.

It's not that Gu Tongxiang is particularly open-minded, but a family like them whose elders have really worked as court painters knows the secrets of this industry better than outsiders.

As the old man said,

If the secret of the new style painting was so easy to figure out, it would not be as beautiful as Lang Shining.

Old Man Gu's biggest extravagant hope from the beginning was just to be satisfied by being able to imitate two points of fur.

The court painters are actually quite a pitiful group of people.

They are very close to power,

In the Forbidden City, the status is much higher than that of the court servants who accompany the emperor to play chess to relieve boredom, the court servants who sing small songs, and the juggling troupe that performs acrobatics for the concubines.

But at the end of the day,

The court painter was still only a dependent of power, a servant who provided sacrificial and pastime services to the royal family.

This is actually very similar to those harem concubines who are lucky every day. Everyone hopes that their painting style will be favored by the emperor.

This is where the world's top painters gather.

The emperor appreciates your painting method, you are a celebrity guest in the mansion of dignitaries, and you are a thousand gold.

If the painting works are not outstanding enough, just like those cold palace maids who may not even have seen the emperor a few times in their lives, you are nothing.

The court painters under the control of the Qing Dynasty's painting academy did not even have a formal grade.

Both the upper and lower limits are exaggerated.

Like Lang Shining, he relied on painting, and painted the lucky ones who wore flowers on top of the three products.

Like those poor little eunuchs and old palace maids, there are also those who really starved to death in the Forbidden City and froze to death.

The painter's lifespan and the ambition of a whole family are pinned on a small brush.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace.

Lang Shining is so appreciated, and the painting effect is so good, who doesn't want to learn two strokes.

In the Qianlong Dynasty alone, in historical records, there were three foreign missionaries, Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng, and Ai Qimeng, who engaged in the combination of East and West paintings.

Among the local court painters, there are also two local painting schools led by Tang Dai, Leng Mei and other painters, the Loudong School and the Yushan School.

Everyone realizes the amazing combination of East and West art style, and everyone wants to get a piece of this popular art genre.

Which of these predecessors is not a talented and passionate person,

Really draw famous,

There's not just one Lang Shining.

If you want to say that your grandson feels good to be able to draw, Gu Tongxiang doesn't believe it.

Even if he was learning painting with Professor Lin Tao, the second apprentice of Grandmaster Cao Xuan, he couldn't.

(End of chapter)