After discussing with Uncle Alai, Gu Weijing decided to temporarily requisition the janitor's porter's cottage as a temporary studio for him and Miss Katsuko Sakai.

Painting in the rain in the open air may be seen in a romantic romance movie, but it is certainly not realistic.

ponder over

Unless you build a shed, Uncle Arlay's house is the most suitable choice.

From the small window of this gatehouse, you can almost see the panoramic view of the old church, which is almost the scene in Carroll's painting.

Katsuko Sakai is still on the way,

Gu Weijing and Uncle Alai moved the table by the window to the iron shelf bed in the back room, and then put the two wooden easels on the left and right.

Miss Jasmine is boiling tea by the stove.

Gu Weijing, on the other hand, looked through the window at this ancient religious building.

In the rain, it stood firmly on the ground under its feet, standing still.

In many parts of the Western world, churches are ancient buildings that have blended with time.

If you don't pay attention to the mottled weathering left by the time on the masonry surface, just look at the light red dome, the cream-white building walls, and the bright green window trim.

Even if this orphanage is actually older than Gu Weijing's grandfather, its appearance is even a little fashionable.

The church is perhaps one of the most varied and intricate buildings in the world.

As a result, depicting these churches became almost the best opportunity for oil painters to express their delicate brushwork.

Each work is like a milestone monument to test one's great skills.

Almost any famous oil painter in Europe who is famous for his landscape painting has painted this kind of subject, which makes church-themed works appear in art textbooks.

Onion-headed Byzantine churches, Roman churches with round vaults, Gothic churches with sharp edges and corners like bamboo shoots reaching into the sky, Renaissance and magnificent Baroque structures......

Raphael, Manet, Monet, Henri Matisse, Picasso......

The audience can easily see a complete history of the changes in architectural trends and the evolution of oil painting techniques in the works of famous artists of different eras.

The old church, where the original site of the Good Luck Orphanage is located, should belong to the Rococo church that was popular around the 18th century.

This architectural design has a relatively simple appearance.

Simple and bright, delicate and coquettish, like to use light tones of fresh and natural style of architectural language and artistic beauty with curved curves.

Its biggest advantage is that it is less expensive to build, and it is much less time-consuming than the Gothic cathedral, which is hundreds of meters high and often has to be calculated in consecutive centuries.

Many classic churches in the colonial era are in this style.

Although simple,

However, the peach-heart-shaped surface windows on the walls of the Good Luck Orphanage building are still inlaid with delicate stained glass windows, just like those ornate churches in Europe.

Much of the stained glass had fallen and shattered years ago, but luckily the stained glass windows facing the front of the gatehouse are still largely in their old style.

The rainbow-like hazy and dreamy candlelight refracted by the stained glass windows is precisely the most beautiful and dazzling highlight of the picture of the female painter Carroll's "Old Church on a Thunderstorm", and it is also the most difficult part to describe.

Even with the help of calligraphy and painting appraisal, it was very difficult for him to imitate.

It is not like Lang Shining's invention of a new style painting, but more of a difficulty in the concept of painting, purely in the difficulty of the brushwork of oil painting.

This is the crown of the difficulty of oil painting copying, brushwork experience requires a little bit of accumulation, hard bridge and hard horse effort, the most can not be faked.

The female painter painted candlelight like a skilled old craftsman, using thousands of pieces of kingfisher feathers, corals and agate to inlay a crown of emerald flowers.

The gloomy canvas surface of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm", with its rainbow-like color luster, is completely drawn up little by little with meticulous brushwork.

The most significant embodiment of the so-called master-level oil painting technique is here.

Not to mention his own creation, it is difficult to draw the divine color of Carol himself by asking Gu Weijing to compare the original works with one stroke of a pen.

[Current Task: Choose to copy an Impressionist work whose oil painting technique has reached the first level of Lv.7 Master.] 】

[1. Achieve a similarity of more than 20% to obtain a primary treasure chest.] 】

[2. Achieve a similarity of more than 50% to obtain an intermediate treasure chest.] 】

[3. If you reach more than 90% of the similarity of copying, you will get a limited reward: Ray Noah - Fragment of Ghosts in All Shapes in the World, which can only be harvested once.] 】

[The highest similarity of the current copying: 39.1%]

"Let's see if we can use the real scene to paint today, cross ten percentage points, and get the intermediate treasure chest." He slowly figured it out in his mind.

The sound of a car engine came from a distance, and a black and brown Mercedes slid in through the open courtyard door.

The car door opened, and as the hotel driver with white gloves opened the back door for the guests, a fair girl in a dark red dress appeared in Gu Weijing's field of vision.

Katsuko Sakai took the umbrella from the driver's hand and stood in the courtyard for a moment, staring intently at the orphanage in front of her.

It's unbelievable,

She had written a paper for the old church and had copied nearly ten of Carol's originals, but this was the girl's first visit to the field.

At this time, the torrential rain is like a note, and the thunder does not stop,

Katsuko Sakai felt as calm as she was reuniting with an old friend she had known for many years.

"Katsuko, here."

Gu Weijing carried a gas lamp, ran out of the gatehouse, stood under the eaves and waved to Katsuko Sakai.

The girl turned her head, a smile bloomed on her face, and she ran towards Gu Weijing in small steps.

As she approached, Gu Weijing was a little amazed at Sakai Katsuko tonight, who looked exceptionally beautiful.

Instead of wearing the conservative school uniform with a shirt and a dark jacket, the other party changed into a small red dress that accentuated his figure.

She didn't wear stockings either, and her long plump legs were exposed.

Katsuko Sakai should have worn some makeup rarely.

Compared to Koko, Miss Sakai's makeup technique seems to be a little jerky, but it can be more beautiful than a girl's natural beauty.

Her cheeks are soft, and the dark eyeshadow accentuates the layering of her already beautiful features.

The glow of the gas lamp gave her a warm glow.

This makes Katsuko Sakai look pure and sexy, as if she has suddenly grown up from the schoolgirl next door, and has more of the charm of a mature woman.

Because of the run,

Katsuko's face was a little flushed, and her skin was as white as jade.

"The weather is so nice today, Gu Jun."

Sakai Katsuko walked up the small steps of the gatehouse, gently pulled Gu Weijing's sleeve, and whispered in the other party's ear, with a slight excitement in her tone, like a little lark flying out of a golden wire cage for the first time.

"How nice is the weather?"

Gu Weijing looked at the dark clouds in the sky as low as the sky above the steeple of the church, and teased with a smile.

Miss Sakai lowered her head, and her cheeks suddenly turned even redder.

As soon as the words were spoken,

Katsuko Sakai felt that she was really clumsy enough to say such incomprehensible words.

The phone call with Komatsu Taro before departure filled Katsuko Sakai's heart with a sense of lightness to let go of her burden.

She was happy now, her eyes were clear, and she had a thousand words to say.

Katsuko Sakai wanted to say that today is really a good time to copy oil paintings, I want to say that this is the first time I sneak out from under the noses of adults, I want to say that I am very happy to copy with you, and I want to say that the predecessor of the female painter Carol should have completed the "Old Church on a Thunderstorm" in such weather......

Seeing Gu Weijing's face, countless words converged on his lips, and the ghost made a god into a sentence, today's weather is really good.

She thought it sounded stupid to herself.

"Uh......" Katsuko Sakai wanted to explain.

"You're right, it's a nice day." Gu Weijing smiled suddenly, looked into Sakai Katsuko's eyes, looked up at the lightning that had just crossed the sky, and repeated, "It's really good." ”

Katsuko Sakai suddenly felt that she didn't have to explain anymore.

So the girl pursed her lips again and just stood there and laughed.

"Gu Jun, let's start writing."

Katsuko Sakai walked into Uncle Alai's porter cottage and smiled again when she saw two transparent acrylic palettes on the windowsill.

There is no original copy of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" in the room.

The orphanage does not have the conditions to store such precious artworks, which is not too much of a problem for Katsuko Sakai and Gu Weijing, two people who have already copied many original paintings.

The original painting of Ms. Carroll is already etched in their minds.

Moreover, there is no need to rely too much on the original, and the biggest advantage of copying on the site of Carroll's painting is that the living painting is actually in front of you.

As long as you look out the window at the rainy night through the small window of the porter, it is a real old church flowing on a thunderstorm day.

"Wait, Jasmine?"

Gu Weijing shouted into the house.

The little girl in the blue dress ran from the stove in the back room with two small black tea bowls.

Jasmine put a tea bowl next to Gu Weijing, opened a pair of dark eyes, and looked at Katsuko Sakai on the side with three points of yearning and seven points of inferiority.

In her limited life, the little girl has only seen dirty dolls in the orphanage and volunteers who occasionally come here to volunteer.

She had never seen such a noble, elegant and beautiful big sister.

Jasmine has reached the age where she vaguely knows beauty.

Beauty has an aura of heaven and earth.

is like an ugly duckling meeting a white swan, although Katsuko Sakai belongs to the kind of girl with a very gentle temperament, Jasmine is still contrasted by the other party like a small black briquette, and she can't raise her head with low self-esteem.

"The bowl is too hot to ......"

Jasmine saw Sakai Katsuko fall on the gap on the edge of the old tea bowl in the orphanage, and lowered her head even more embarrassedly, rubbing her right hand vigorously on the skirt before carefully handing the tea bowl to the other party.

"Clean, sister, not dirty......"

"Thank you."

Katsuko Sakai smiled softly at the little girl, took the tea bowl, and placed it by the window.

"Sister, you are so beautiful, I want to be half as beautiful as you in the future, no, just a third beautiful." Seeing that Katsuko Sakai was not cold and unapproachable, Jasmine was a little bolder and said enviously.

"You also have a pair of beautiful eyes, and I envy them."

Katsuko Sakai stroked Jasmine's hair and whispered encouragement.

Jasmine's face turned red all of a sudden, and she wanted to run away when she lowered her head shyly, but was stopped by Gu Weijing.

"Jasmine, remember what I told you before, count the second window from left to right, if you can't reach it, ask Uncle Alai to help you."

Gu Weijing handed over an umbrella and whispered a few words beside the little girl Jasmine.

The little girl nodded, picked up her umbrella, and disappeared into the night.

After about a few minutes,

The faint beating light of a candlestick slowly lit up in the church.

The candle flame dancing in the rainy night, with the solemnity of religious ceremonies, is just like the scene painted by the female painter Carol.

"Let's get started now."

Gu Weijing began to mix turpentine and flax oil in a 1:1 ratio and began to dilute the pigment.

The rain never stopped or became smaller, and the light of the gas lamp shone on the small porter as a studio with a warm temperature.

Young men and women were next to each other, and the skin on their arms occasionally touched each other, with each other's body temperatures, but no one spoke.

Both of them were enjoying a very tacit silence, concentrating on copying each other's memories.

Gu Weijing gently mixed a little bit of ivory black and Windsor purple on an acrylic board with a spatula and held it in front of his forehead.

He realized that he didn't need to put a transparent palette on the background of the canvas to grasp the shades of color.

At this time, the real world outside the window is like a vivid canvas, and Gu Weijing can even completely separate this small plastic piece and try to imprint and blend the blended pigments with the real colors.

That's why

Gu Weijing slowly began to become confused, and the originally smooth pen also hesitated slightly.

Impressionism is the aesthetics of capturing light,

Capturing and solidifying the ever-changing light and color in the brush is the eternal artistic pursuit of the Impressionist painters.

This light usually refers to sunlight. So, for a while, Impressionism was even called the Sunshine School.

Carroll did the opposite, painting a scene of a thunderstorm with psychedelic and brilliant brushwork.

But everything is the same,

The soul of the painting is still light, the candlelight mixed with the lightning flowing in the sky, as if it were a brilliant aurora sealed in amber.

When copying the original traces, Gu Weijing didn't feel anything.

But at this time,

He clearly felt a sense of absence.

Gu Weijing gently tapped the acrylic palette with his fingertips, thinking, hesitating, as if he was making some kind of decision.

His sixth sense told him that if he wanted to get the mid-level treasure chest rewarded by the system, it wasn't enough.

Gu Weijing reopened the virtual panel and found the charity wealth exchange panel.

【XP Exchange Panel:】

[Current Distributable Free XP: 3105]

(End of chapter)