As Boss Chen helped him get the approval, the money was transferred to the orphanage's account, and the modernization construction was put on the agenda.

Gu Weijing had already received a reminder that the system's experience points had arrived a few days ago.

With nearly 3,000 free experience points, he is filled with the satisfaction of being poor and rich.

He wasn't in a hurry to point out his experience points for the time being.

First, Gu Weijing also needs to leave a little experience point for using calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques in his daily life.

Second, he hadn't really figured out how to distribute the experience points.

More than 3,000 free experience points are a lot less, but not too much, if you really want to plan casually, there will be nothing left.

In the virtual panel, among the several feasible options, the first one that Gu Weijing ruled out was to water the [Miscellaneous Hundred Arts Tree].

This Hundred Arts Tree, which can produce miscellaneous painting skills, is as precious as the mythical Fortune Tree, which can drop gold and silver treasures.

For art students, "legendary" painting skills may be more valuable than real money.

Unfortunately, it's also a bottomless pit that eats away from experience.

Watering once costs thousands of experience points, and it's just a "probability" to grow a new branch.

The 3,000 experience points he had finally accumulated were gone after three waterings, and the harvest was uncertain, and it was very likely that the bamboo basket would be empty.

Gu Weijing can't afford to play with this sapling for the time being.

All that's left is the painting panel.

Among the five major items of painting, Gu Weijing now needs to use three things: Chinese painting, drawing, and oil painting.

His Chinese painting is relatively weak, and drawing is the foundation of the field of painting that is versatile with other types of painting, while the oil painting technique has the nourishment of the beginner's treasure chest, and the experience bar of the first order of the profession has filled most of it.

If you tilt the oil painting, you should be able to break through directly to the second level of the profession.

It is precisely because the choices seem to be much better, so Gu Weijing is a little hesitant.

"What's wrong?"

Katsuko Sakai felt the pause of the people around her, turned her head sideways, moved her wrist slightly, and asked with a chuckle, "Do you feel tired?" ”

The girl stretched slightly.

In order to find a suitable angle from the window to observe the orphanage, and the gatehouse hut was originally limited in space, they had to draw next to each other in a standing position when copying.

A lot of time has passed since I started copying.

Katsuko Sakai went swimming at the beach this morning, and at noon and evening she accompanied Mrs. Sakai to shop for jade, but until now, she is in good spirits and does not feel tired at all.

Tacit, warm, pleasant, and a little sweet,

Professor Kazunari Sakai has beautiful properties and brightly lit professional studios in Nagoya, Tokyo, Monaco and Provence in the south of France.

In the large studios that Katsuko once took for granted, the lighting system purchased to simulate all kinds of natural light was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But she didn't think that this simple hut with only two gas lamps was to her liking.

This is simply the happiest painting process Sakai Katsuko has ever experienced, and she kind of hopes that this painting will be a little bigger, so that time can freeze in this moment and never end.

"Light?" Gu Weijing said softly, "Light is not enough to have a god. ”

"You mean candlelight."

Katsuko Sakai is a painting genius, and her copying speed is slightly faster than Gu Weijing, who has improved by leaps and bounds with the help of the system during this time.

Gu Weijing has just finished painting the background color and the distant sky on the canvas, and she has already painted the main details of the church.

She thought for a moment and knew the meaning of Gu Weijing's words.

She inserted the paintbrush into the medium water cylinder used for cleaning, took the other party's palette from Gu Weijing's hand, raised it to her forehead, looked at the sky outside through the smooth plastic plate, and looked at the canvas in front of her.

"It's actually pretty good......"

Katsuko Sakai twisted the flame of the gas lamp to the brightest and moved it slightly in front of her, comparing Gu Weijing and her own paint in the firelight.

As an emergency lighting without conditions,

Compared with cold flashlights or incandescent lamps, which can easily reach thousands of streams of brightness, gas lamps have a weaker illumination ability, but the color temperature is warmer, which is more suitable for daily natural light.

Therefore, the appearance of the canvas under the gas lamp is similar to the appearance of the sun in the sun, and the painted picture is not easy to cast color.

"I'll take a look at it for you, okay?" Katsuko Sakai tilted her head.

After obtaining Gu Weijing's consent, she took her oil painting knife and dipped some pearl white on the palette for a while, and then scraped it on the canvas with a clean small brush, and finally shook her head.

"I'm configuring, the color is a little brighter, maybe more flax oil is added to the thinner, but ...... There is no essential difference...... This is actually quite accurate. ”

Miss Katsuko shook her head helplessly.

"Accuracy alone is not enough." Gu Weijing also shook his head.

"I understand, I understand what Gu Jun means, it's just that the candlelight itself is difficult to paint, and the stained glass is even more difficult to paint. Katsuko Sakai said.

She has a little more experience in oil painting than Gu Weijing, and even if she has a more accurate grasp of light, she also does not have the magic of turning stones into gold.

In the Middle Ages, stained glass was hailed as the art of the kingdom of God because of its variability and inscrutableness.

In the 12th century, when the King of France decided to build the famous Cathedral of Saint-Denis as a place of worship and resting, the then abbot Gauge decided to fill the interior of the building with the splendor of the kingdom of heaven, so as to enhance the spiritual connection between the individual and the gods, so that mortals walking inside the building feel like walking in the kingdom of God.

For the first time in history,

Large areas of stained glass were used in the building, and the Basilica of Saint-Denis became a landmark in the history of architecture, and is still synonymous with the opulence and sophistication of French architecture.

As a medium separating humanity from the heavenly realm,

Even those experienced painters have to think twice before starting to write when facing stained glass windows.

It is not like many people think that a whole piece of large glass is directly manufactured, but during production, manganese and cobalt are added to the furnace, and the glass will slowly deform, change the light transmittance, and finally form translucent small glass of different colors.

The tiny glass is then cut into hundreds of knuckles or pieces the size of a baby's palm, as needed, and then sliced together with molten lead and stitched together into patterns on the window flutes.

There was even a special category of stained glass painters. In the 19th century, the great oil painter Georges Rouault, who was known for his ethereal brushwork, was apprenticed to glass painting.

Katsuko Sakai looked at the window of the old church of the orphanage not far away, and gently smoothed the hair from the corner of her forehead to the back of her head, looking a little regretful.

She knew that with their current technique, it was impossible to express these colors accurately.

No two feathers are the same, and no two stained glass windows are the same.

Hundreds of different pieces of glass are like hundreds of different pigment colors.

Due to the limited production process of early glass and the different furnaces in which the batches were produced, each piece of glass may be unique.

It may be that the two pieces of glass next to each other are emerald green or crimson, which looks similar, but there will still be a very subtle change in light transmission.

"I didn't actually paint the candlelight here, it's a pity that I didn't paint such a scene." Katsuko Sakai looked at her canvas and didn't know if she was comforting Gu Weijing or herself.

Candlelight makes painting even more difficult.

Candles are not a stable source of projection light.

Its flames will jump, flicker, flicker, and fluctuate.

Combined with stained glass, the painter wanted to accurately replicate its color, like throwing an apple on the side of the road through the wreath thrown in the air by an acrobatic clown in a speeding car.

Such a complex and colorful color, put on the canvas, not even half the size of the palm of the hand, is simply an impossible task.

She also put a lot of thought into the color of this part.

The effect after the results are completed...... I can't say that the painting is bad, but it can only be considered unsatisfactory.

On the canvas in front of her, Katsuko Sakai uses extremely thin and fine brushwork to dye the luster of the candle little by little, which looks fluttering and light enough.

But I owe a little smartness.

It's a painting, but it's not a flame.

The pursuit of painting is to draw a three-dimensional perception on a two-dimensional plane and tell a four-dimensional story.

The paintings of ordinary good painters are just paintings, while the paintings of first-class masters are committed to creating a real space in the eyes of the audience by relying on the change of focus and visual proportions.

And the work of the real top bull grandmaster is a flowing feast.

In the classical period, when entertainment was scarce, the male and female aristocrats of high society watched art exhibitions and sculptures in the same way that today's young people watched movies.

The most sought-after work is always the one with a sense of time, it will "move" and will tell you a story.

Watching "Eighty-Seven Immortals" is like participating in a gathering of immortals in the ethereal fairy palace, and watching "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" is like stepping into the water, sand and green peaks, touring the mountains and waters. Watching "Venus Rising in the Sea" is like seeing a song and dance of the god of beauty, and watching "Mourning Christ" is like witnessing a religious enlightenment......

Katsuko Sakai looked at the candlelight she had drawn on the canvas and sighed regretfully.

Her own technique is still stuck in the part of "copying on paper", and the painting is still two-dimensional.

The painting is just very similar, and the candlelight is not three-dimensional enough, whether it is from the real world in front of you, or the smart feeling of the female painter Carol's brush, there is a big gap.

Not to mention, let the soul of the previous master come alive from her pen.

Katsuko Sakai looked at Gu Weijing beside her, staring at the canvas, motionless, a little worried.

"Gu Jun, don't force yourself too much, lose your spirit." She thought that Gu Weijing seemed to be in a little too anxious, so she persuaded softly.

Painters are a profession that is easy to drill the horns of the bull, and Impressionism is a high-risk area for occupational diseases.

Renoir, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh...... When everyone in this ticket was trying to figure out the light, they all had symptoms of mental problems.

Jumping into the river, anxiety, and self-harm are just the difference between mild and severe symptoms.

"Hey, don't think about it, we can come and paint together often, you're young, I'm young, maybe a few months, maybe a year or two, one day we'll be able to paint the look we want."

Sakai Katsuko stretched out her hand from behind her, gently covered Gu Weijing's eyes, and said softly.

It's just a pity that with the renovation of this good luck orphanage, it may be difficult to reproduce such a good copying condition today.

Miss Katsuko is also sorry for this.

Gu Weijing broke away from Sakai Katsuko's palm.

He looked at the rainy night, looked at the canvas in front of him, as if he had made up his mind, and said in a soft but firm voice: "I still want to try." ”

[Determined to be an oil painting technique, allocate 2863 experience points?] 】

He gently distributed his free XP points in the virtual panel, tilting over the painting.

As he clicked OK, the experience slot, which was originally a small and half vacant, was filled in an instant, and the next moment, Gu Weijing heard the prompt sound of the system.

[Your oil painting technique level has been improved!] 】

[Current Level: Lv.5 Class Painter: 2nd Tier (1/10000)]

Once you have the system,

Gu Weijing had never allocated so many experience points to himself in a short period of time.

It is said that it is an old monk to pass on his skills, and the initiation may be a bit exaggerated, saying that a sentence is suddenly enlightened, and there is almost no water.

It's not like the impact of a massive amount of information and knowledge pouring into your mind like a knowledge card.

The canvas is still the canvas, and the brush is still the same brush.

But almost immediately, he felt that he had become different.

An increase of nearly 3,000 XP points is enough to cause a qualitative change in quantity. An oil painting that consumes a lot of time and effort often only brings a few dozen experience points to an increase.

People are not machines, so it is impossible to spend 24 hours on oil paintings.

Normally, even if an art student uses more convenient acrylic, he can maintain the frequency of painting a complete oil painting a week, which may only be available during the training week.

Art students in East Asia, every time they conduct professional training for the joint entrance examination or some art competitions, almost all of them can make the students peel off their skin, slow down the pace, and if they don't do well, there will be juvenile protection groups who will jump out and accuse children of child abuse.

They also spend a lot of time on sketching and other professional classes, even if they draw one a month.

In other words, without the help of the system, 3,000 experience points may be a breakthrough that can only be achieved by ordinary people for years or even more than ten years of hard work.

It has to be if you have good talent and understanding, and you work hard enough.

Most people may never touch the level of the second order of their careers for the rest of their lives. For example, his grandfather Gu Tongxiang, such as the art teachers at Dulwich.

Even Miss Katsuko Sakai is still a little bit away from the second-order of her profession now.

How many people in the world can be as lucky as Katsuko Sakai to have a top teacher to guide him since he was a child?

What Gu Weijing felt most significantly was the improvement of his control with his pen.

(End of chapter)