Myanmar in early March is not the traditional rainy season in Southeast Asia.

But the rain in Yangon is the tears of an amorous girl, always coming as it comes.

On the Dulwich College campus in the rain, the black masonry of the European auditorium building and the flickering white lights in the windows resemble an old black and white movie, flowing with the unique texture of old film from the early 20th century gold dust era.

A melodious symphony of music emanates from the auditorium.

The YouTube video playing on a large 350-inch laser projector in the center of the auditorium is coming to an end.

On the screen,

The protagonist of the micro-movie, played by the blonde young Jerry, is holding the old Doberman Pinscher who is about to be euthanized in the stray pet rescue center.

On the screen, the slogan "To love animals is to love ourselves" was played as the slogan of the micro-film.

"Dear teachers and students, what has just been shown is the animal protection micro-film "Lost Love" starring Jerry Lorenz in Year 13."

The hostess said in an impassioned tone to the full class of students.

"At the Yangon International Student Film Festival that just ended this Wednesday, the micro-film won the [Outstanding Love Award] and received a special report from Yangon Economic Weekly, so we can now applaud the outstanding students."

Mona, who presided over the commendation meeting, put down the teleprompter card in her hand and applauded softly with a smile on her face.

With the president of the women's student council taking the lead,

In the auditorium, Dulwich students applauded and talked about it.

"Boss is awesome!" Jerry's varsity boy cheered hard and slapped his hands hard.

"It's so loving. I'm going to cry, the dog is so pitiful. ”

The sentimental girl saw the scene at the end of the screen where the Doberman Pinscher was put into the pet nitrogen cabin, and wiped her tears vigorously.

This nitrogen chamber is specially designed for the euthanasia of elderly pets.

As the nitrogen levels in the cabin increase, the dogs will fall into a coma without pain, and the market price on Amazon is as high as $2,500, sponsored by Jerry's father's company.

"This time I showed my face, it's amazing, I think Jerry has the demeanor of a Hollywood star, people wear perfume every day when they go to school, our local boy doesn't even have this kind of parenting habits, and he is not a gentleman at all." Jerry's little fans focus more on handsome blonde guys.

"Cut, I don't think this micro-movie is so good."

There are also some people who secretly poke at the school's behavior of revitalizing teachers and expressing sourness: "Isn't our school's film club making a lot of micro-movies all year round, and it's just a random show on the school festival or club day, and there has never been a special commendation meeting." ”

"Idiot, the point is not micro-movies, it's love - love you know!"

A classmate next to him immediately refuted him: "Our school's film club can win awards at the International Film Festival for College Students?" Can you get some special stories for reporters? This can be written in the school's enrollment brochure for the next year, and if you can do it, the school will also give you a special commendation meeting. ”

This is the time for Dulwich College International's Campus Recognition Reception.

Jerry Lorenz, a Year 13 student, participated in the charity micro-film, which turned out to be surprisingly good.

Not only did it win an award at the University Student Film Festival in Yangon, but it also had a reporter's special feature titled "Facing Death - The Last Journey of Companion Pets", which reported on the pet euthanasia love project founded by Jerry's classmates.

Even if it's just on the seventh page of the newspaper, there is a 100-word text message the size of a tofu block.

But "Yangon Economic Weekly" is a mainstream media under the serious city government, not a gossip tabloid or worthless self-media.

This is of great significance to a private aristocratic school like Dulwich.

The Board of Trustees decided to hold a special recognition session in the afternoon, and even the European headquarters of Dulwich College International sent a congratulatory email.

This chaotic and noisy public place,

Gu Weijing used to sit in the corner of the seats of the senior group as usual.

Compared with the micro-film, his mind is still more on yesterday's copying.

The webpage on the iPad he held in his hand was the homepage of the "Shape of Power: Lang Shining's New Style Painting Thematic Exhibition" produced by the National Palace Museum in Taipei in Dongxia in 17 years.

The painting methods of Lang Shining's works can be roughly divided into two categories.

On the whole, the works are still created using the "Western method heavy color" technique with Chinese brushes as the body and Western colors as the use.

This kind of work is mainly based on flowers, birds, plants, trees and landscapes, and the painting method is relatively simple to learn.

If you realize it, you will be able to understand it for seven or eighty percent.

On this basis, there is also a "line drawing" painting method that can completely retain the oriental charm and skillfully integrate the essence of Chinese painting, oil painting and sketch painting after adding accurate sketch line modeling and exquisite focus perspective proportional style.

It is much more difficult than the "Western Law Heavy Color" painting.

If it is said that Western heavy color is like knitting a sweater, weaving two yarns together, Chinese painting and oil painting.

Then the line drawing is like the big girl Qingwen in "A Dream of Red Mansions" mending Jia Baoyu's fur with her skillful hands, and carving on the width of the clothes with the extremely thin "peacock gold thread" of sketching.

In addition to the fact that this way of painting is more difficult, it requires a higher level of proficiency in using the brush.

"Chinese painting is Shen Yun, oil painting is flesh and blood, and sketching is the skeleton, and none of the three can be wrong."

Gu Weijing quickly summed up the main points of the line drawing.

Don't look at the extra sketch, compared to the West French heavy color, the look and feel of the line drawing is better, and the characters and buildings are more realistic more than an order of magnitude.

Sketching is known as the basis of modern painting,

If the ambition is not limited to small flowers and grasses, if you want to accurately restore the buildings and characters, you must inevitably have the help of sketch lines.

Drawing a picture of small flowers and grasses like bean blossom, the lines are not three-dimensional and the proportion is not restored enough, in fact, it is nothing.

The audience doesn't always see the bean curd as cauliflower.

However, architectural painting and figure painting, especially after incorporating oil painting techniques, if the proportions and structures are not right, they will be similar and not similar.

Then I don't know if the audience has goosebumps coming out of the eyes.

When a painting is very similar to a natural, living person, but not exactly like it, it immediately produces an irrepressible emotional reaction of disgust and disgust in some people's minds.

Psychologically, this impression of art is called the "uncanny valley" effect.

The oil painting teacher will say, either follow the realistic genre, or don't be realistic, never half and half - this statement is true, but it is not completely absolute.

Masters of art who have truly mastered the realm of transformation can take the initiative to incorporate this theory into their works long before it is studied by psychologists.

For example, the peerless old scumbag Picasso,

After he got tired of playing with a lover or wife, he liked to use this method to scandalize and demonize them in his works.

The most typical example is one of his works that sold for $78 million in 1997.

Picasso deliberately misdrew the leg structure and bones of his second wife, a beautiful ballerina who danced for a living, to make the audience appear to be fearful, in order to express his disgust and hatred for the "woman in marriage".

However, Gu Weijing is still too far from the level of a great artist, and if he wants to forcibly play with such a high-level technique, he can only follow his example, and he will definitely overturn and go to his grandmother's house.

What he is still pursuing is the most basic painting.

Gu Weijing carefully studied the two representative line drawings of Lang Shining's realistic figures in the exhibition, "Emperor Qianlong's Great Reading" and "Xuanfei".

He analyzed the new style painting method in his mind, slowly analyzed the beauty of these paintings, and considered how he should imitate it.

If you want to participate in the Lion City Art Exhibition, people and buildings are indispensable.

The composition of the picture designed by collector Chen Shenglin for himself is so exquisite, Gu Weijing does not want to give up the original painting plan and paint some simple flowers and grasses instead.

It's a shame.

Therefore, line drawing is a level that I must pass.

The perspective structure and proportional lines of the sketch can be closer to the scene seen by the human eye in nature, and have an inherent advantage in the ability to restore the scene.

It's the quickest way to grab the first glance from the audience and the judges.

Chinese painting focuses more on charm and essence, which requires cultural precipitation and careful appreciation to be seen.

Originally, the two were quite difficult to fuse.

At this time, Cao Lao instructed himself to practice a lot of line drawing sketches that combined sketching techniques and white drawing techniques, which was reflected.

Gu Weijing has drawn more than 100 line drawing sketches, and has already gained experience in the integration of Chinese painting white drawing brushwork and sketching techniques.

“So Boring…… Help!!！ (I'm bored to death, help!) ）”

GU WEIJING WAS WATCHING AN ART EXHIBITION, AND A MESSAGE WAS UPLOADED ON THE IPAD, AND SOMEONE ON THE SOCIAL SOFTWARE SENT HIM A NEW MESSAGE.

He put away the album, opened the software, and found that it was a message from Miss Sakai.

In addition to writing papers and going to the studio to paint with Gu Weijing,

After Katsuko Sakai moved to Dulwich, she almost never participated in any group activities at school, not even adding grade groups and class groups on Whatsapp.

Outside of the improvement class,

She maintained almost no social attitude with other classmates of the same age.

Therefore, it has been rumored in the school that Miss Sakai is quite cold and does not like to make friends with others.

Miss Katsuko once complained to him that her mother had asked her to do so.

Mrs. Sakai thinks that it is not a person of the same world anyway, and it is not good to get too close to these Burmese natives.

Everyone estimates that they will never see each other again after half a year, and it is sad to really make friends.

Besides,

Your daughter is simple-minded, you treat others as friends, and others regard you as a way to get rich.

If these people lick their faces and beg to come to the door in the future, it will be annoying to help or not, so it is better to keep a distance as much as possible at the beginning, so that hello, I am hello, everyone.

Ruthless and shrewd, very cruel and realistic, the signature Mrs. Sakai's way of doing things.

Think of it this way,

Mrs. Sakai had set two requirements for herself in that conversation, and she really looked down on herself in her heart.

"I've been listening to the jade lecture with my mother for half an hour at sea, and I'm almost asleep." Katsuko Sakai sent a dozing expression.

Gu Weijing remembered that Miss Katsuko was dragged by her mother today and went to the beach with Komatsu Taro to play, and she didn't come to school at all.

When it comes to Katsuko Sakai, who is one of the top ten art academies in the world, he can be selected at will, and he can't become a great artist in 20 years.

Willing to transfer to Dulwich is an ancestral grave for the Yangon school authorities.

The school board is eager to offer her as a little ancestor.

School rules and discipline are a joke to people, and there is absolutely no one who wants to come to school and care.

Gu Weijing closed the chat software and opened Katsuko Sakai's homepage on Instagram, and sure enough, he saw that she had just updated her photo wall.

Judging by the photo record,

Katsuko Sakai went to the seaside port in the morning to collect shells.

Aman has a large private stretch of golden sand beach in Yangon Harbour, and every time the tide goes down, there are seashells of all sizes left on the beach.

The photo with the highest number of likes has already received more than 10,000 views within a few hours.

The temperature in Yangon in March is already quite high,

In the photo, Katsuko Sakai is wearing a one-piece beach swimsuit, with her straight, straight thighs and arms exposed, stepping barefoot on a large mussel shell the size of a snare, facing the sea, and her other calf raised high in the air.

I don't know if Katsuko Sakai just swam or because of the light rain,

Her hair was wet and sticking to the back of her neck, but her skin was white and moist, and her plump body was in stark contrast to the golden sand and blue sea.

This scene is really like a marble statue of Venus, the goddess of beauty, by the sea in a romantic oil painting, which is really beautiful.

Gu Weijing smiled, and quietly liked this photo, and then continued to follow the timeline to scroll down INS.

Miss Sakai ate paella at a seaside restaurant at noon, and went out to sea with her mother in the afternoon.

Calculate the time, and send yourself a message accusing her of dying of boredom, she should be on a treasure ship.

Gambling boats on the unregulated high seas are common in the world, and they are found in all countries, but the Emerald Treasure Boat is a feature of Myanmar.

The sale of jade is a very lucrative industry and the backbone of Myanmar's economy outside of tourism.

By law, all Myanmar jadeite ore veins are state-owned, and the vast majority of private jadeite trades you can see are illegal.

That's why some of them have treasure boats for the rich.

The owner of the private mine will transport the best jadeite ore to a cruise ship registered in Cayman or Panama, and then sail to the high seas, so that some unregulated private projects can be opened for customers to choose their favorite jadeite.

For example, in the photo that Miss Sakai just posted five minutes ago,

Komatsu Taro has a valet-like crew boy next to him, holding a large plate of high-quality jade rings, bracelets, and peace jade plaques, and he should be foaming at the mouth to explain the wonders of each piece of jewelry to the guests on board.

Katsuko Sakai's INS caption is cute - I pretend to listen but I was bored to die (I listened really hard, but I'm bored to death).

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