Anna put down the oil paintbrush,

On the canvas in front of the woman, a colorful space of light and dark is presented.

Although it is an imitation,

Miss Elena still kept the general composition of the detective cat unchanged, and adjusted the picture slightly and subtly.

She conceived,

The brightness of the starlight was deliberately raised to create a three-dimensional optical illusion - it seemed to be placed very far away from humans. The desert in the distance is slightly cooler, and the desert in the near field is warmer, because the color temperature changes when the light enters the human pupil depending on the distance.

Intense starlight reflects through dunes and canyons into the backlit areas, presenting wonderful, warm complementary colors.

It's a textbook classic picture treatment.

Perfect and not old-fashioned, very aura.

Anna didn't even have to think about any compositional theories of the panel, and when she saw the canvas, she had an idea of how the area in question should be treated.

Naturally, it comes naturally.

pity

Everything was fine when you conceived it, but once you put pen to paper, it's not at all like that.

If her art appreciation ability is 100 points, her painting talent is even a 60 points to pass is an extravagant expectation, not to mention that it is only in the single digits.

Anna looked down at her palm.

The fingertips are slender, the complexion is fair and crystalline, and the joints are slender and well-proportioned, and they can be taken directly to take promotional photos of Cartier's diamond ring.

But when she picked up the brush...... But there's always a little bit of ...... Strangely clumsy.

Totally unreasonable!

Unlike her leg muscles, her hands do not have any physiological defects, her bones are soft, her joints are flexible, and she has even learned some classical musical instruments since she was a child, and she is quite talented.

When Anna plays the violin, she can easily handle some complex fingertip movements such as jumping bows or kneading strings, and the sound is ethereal and undelayed.

But as soon as she switched to painting, no matter how abundant her theoretical knowledge was, she was still immediately like a housewife who had just learned to light a stove in front of an oil pot.

Sometimes,

I really can only helplessly attribute it to the fact that the talent point is not here.

If you are not good at it, you are not good at it.

Not all tall people are suitable for playing basketball, and long legs and long feet are not necessarily good for Bolt, and it is also completely unreasonable.

People who are very good at a certain type of creation or very bad at a certain type of creation can be encountered in the field of art, which is more common than on the sports field.

The proportion of the latter is much higher than that of the former.

Unthinkable,

What do you want to do?

People are born unfair, and talent is only a trivial aspect of it.

Anna isn't just the exception.

This type of student has been encountered by almost every teacher who runs an art training class.

Some children are born with a can't distinguish pitch, their voice has a narrow vocal range, they can't draw round eggs no matter how they practice, and the sense of space in the pen is even more messy.

It's just to see if the training teacher will risk offending people and kindly tell the parents that the other party's child is not suitable for learning art.

Anna happened to run into an area that she was not good at, which happened to be her favorite field.

Coupled with the fact that her wealth is enough to allow her to pursue what she likes without asking for anything, this is why she is so entangled.

"The use of the pen is sluggish, the emotion is wooden, and the amateur-level paintings are completely unqualified." The girl, with the rigor of the editor of "Oil Painting", swept through her own work and criticized mercilessly.

Before she started writing, Anna knew that

It's impossible to handle the most controlling oil painting knife on your own.

So Anna didn't have the luxury of painting knife drawings at all, only retaining the basic composition of the detective cat, and instead used her favorite Renoir-style small and beautiful impressionist style.

Still mediocre.

Similar to Gu Weijing's attempt to draw line drawings in a new style.

Even though the Impressionists were not known for their intricate technique, Miss Elena still struggled to paint.

She almost tried her best to control the use of the pen, and she was fighting with the disobedient brush, and the expression of her soul and her emotional investment had long been out of her mind.

Down-to-earth and serious——

It is the emotional limit that Anna's picture technique can express with her efforts.

Li Bai's fiery soul was cast into the body of an illiterate man, and a great orator like Mark Twain was reborn into a severe stuttering stutter.

There is a passionate passion.

However, he is trapped under the surface of the canvas like the iron bars of a prison by clumsy techniques, surging but unable to escape.

That's what Anna feels when she paints.

"Alas......"

Looking at the extremely ingenious and boring picture in front of her, Anna sighed lowly.

Two years ago,

When she was about to graduate, she went to Japan as an intern with a retired editor of Oil Painting magazine to participate in the finals of the Asian Children's Artist Competition held by the Toyota Corporation Foundation in Tokyo.

The average age of the contestants was much younger than Miss Elena at the time.

The level of painting has already had the law of some famous masters, and the flow of brush and ink is full of amazing talent and talent.

Anna sat in the VIP audience, with no expression on her face, but she was quite envious in her heart.

She was born with something that countless people would never get in her lifetime, but the talent for painting that she most wanted to have, as her aunt said, Anna really didn't have it.

At this time, the oil painting on canvas in front of her, whether in terms of technique or emotional effect, is even beyond the reach of the fur of the detective cat sister.

"I have witnessed the brilliance of the stars, but there is not even a trace of residual light in the palm of my hand."

Anna leaned lightly on the back of her wheelchair and muttered to herself.

"It's cruel."

Springer spaniels on one side also stopped playing tennis.

August leaned over to the wheelchair, and the big dog turned his head to look at Anna's painting in front of him, and let out another low whimper.

It opened its mouth and licked the sleeve of the hostess's wrist with a large, slightly rough tongue.

Turning around, he gently swept Anna's palm with his short fluffy tail.

"You don't have to comfort me, I'm not sad. Being sad doesn't change anything, I'm just a little emotional. ”

Anna's palms tickled, touched her dog's brown tail, and chuckled softly.

Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will be revealed.

The same is true for artistic accomplishment, which is a matter of being exposed to the ears and eyes.

Anna's hound has seen more authentic paintings every year than a normal ordinary person has seen in a lifetime.

The master's technique is like a mighty river flowing in front of you, and even a stone should become a little moisturized.

She has always felt that her Augustian blood is not pure, but she is extremely intelligent and has a very high artistic aesthetic cultivation.

There were times when Anna was not at home and the nurse aunt told her.

The big dog would often go to the family's glass-walled collection studio for a whole day.

It's incredible to think about.

Dogs have a high IQ and can not only take on search and rescue missions, but are also trained by New Zealand's animal protection organizations, and they can even learn to drive a specially built BMW MINI in eight weeks.

however

Dogs' eyesight is only moderate among animals, and they are more sensitive to observing moving objects in the dark than humans, but they are average in capturing still lifes such as picture scrolls.

At the same time, because of the different light sensing cells of the optic nerve, most pet dogs can only distinguish a limited number of colors.

For gorgeous and colorful oil paintings, it should be difficult to understand.

Anna had consulted her family doctor about this.

The other party may have analyzed that the nose of dogs is too sensitive, and Springer Spaniels are common police dog breeds that can smell a teaspoon of a billionth of a dose of gasoline or fuel.

They possess a sense of "mind reading", which can distinguish the good and bad mood of human beings just by the change of the slightest gas factor floating in the air.

This big dog probably happens to like the smell of paint.

On the other hand, it is more likely that August is not really able to understand the quality of the artwork, but more likely that he can smell the changes in the mood of the human audience appreciating different oil paintings, and make different reactions.

Of course

This is already something that can only be done by an extremely intelligent dog.

Anna didn't really like the unaesthetic answer.

She was more sensual to think that her August would really appreciate the beauty of art, and her aunt did not really leave, but looked at the world and her favorite niece from time to time through the brown and yellow oval pupils of her dog.

"Come, I'll tell you a secret."

She reached out and grabbed August's two forepaws so hard that they were placed on her lap and hugged the dog's head.

Anna gently poked the other party's big dark brown ears and said slowly: "I secretly signed a female painter from Algeria. It's the first time in my life that I've connected myself so closely to someone who lives in the world. ”

"She's the kind of genius she's brilliant, the kind of genius I'm destined to work hard in my life that can't match her sporadic achievements. But in addition to her technique, this sister is also a jade who lacks polish. Sometimes, I even think she's a little green. ”

"August, I'll do my best to help her. Protect her from the trivialities of the world. I hope I can be a small footnote in her remarkable life story. Maybe many years later, she will really be able to paint the work I have always dreamed of, what do you say? ”

Springer Hound looked at his mistress silently, and shook his ears slightly, as if he was listening intently to Miss Elena's little dreams that were unknown to outsiders.

The wind blew from the sky, causing the branches and leaves of the walnut trees to shake for a while.

Anna pressed the hem of her fluttering skirt lightly, raised her head, and saw a blue-and-white painted A109 light helicopter produced by Agusta, the backbone of Italy, passing from a low altitude of more than 20 meters, heading straight for the lake, spraying the big H with white paint on the water apron.

Anna looked at the helicopter that was blowing ripples over the tarmac, as if remembering something annoying, and frowned and shook her head slightly.

"Pompous."

The girl picked up the walkie-talkie that she had placed on the armrest of her wheelchair while she was drawing, and gently contacted the housekeeper and nurse who were on call not far away.

"Cousin Ole is here, I'm going back."

……

"As you may have read in secondary school textbooks, Austrian aristocrats were generally much richer than their German cousins. However, since the Abolition of the Nobility Act signed by Parliament in 1919 came into force, our Emperor Karl the Great was ruthlessly ousted from the throne. The First Austrian Republic was also much harsher and more ruthless than the Weimar Republic of the same period, confiscating land and titles, and even declaring the symbols of nobility in their surnames illegal, and many people were thrown into ......exile as a result."

Ole von Kruger, with deep-set eyes, slightly high cheekbones, and slightly curly dark hair.

His handsome features resemble the photographs of the philosopher Wittgenstein, who is known as the perfect lover of European maidens.

It's not necessarily a coincidence.

The traditional families of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were known for their penchant for marriage, and almost every ancient surname was related to each other.

Academically,

Wittgenstein was probably one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

But in terms of his influence on modern European history, Wittgenstein was not necessarily the most accomplished of his family. As one of the most prominent surnames in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his father was the largest steel tycoon in Europe, and his mother was a scholarly family and the cousin of economist Hayek.

This kind of high-ranking surname,

Ole thought that if he spent half an hour digging through it, he would be able to find a few cousins with the surname Wittgenstein in the genealogical tree woven from the huge cashmere tapestry in his living room.

It's like - he's likewise a cousin of the last heiress of the ancient surname Elena.

Right

Åre also came from an old aristocratic family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

But it's different from the Anna family.

Because after the collapse of the Habsburg Dynasty, he was unwilling to remove the symbol of "Feng", which represented the honor of his ancestors, and the elders of his great-grandfather's generation brought gold and silver to Germany.

Similar to many old money families, they like to take root in the financial industry and the traditional heavy industry field.

Most of the members of the Kruger family studied finance and had shares in several private banks in Europe that were more than 100 years old.

Ole himself also manages a private equity fund of about 180 million euros, and has dual Spanish and German citizenship, and is theoretically the 96th in line to the Spanish royal family according to blood pedigree.

Since adolescence, Åler has belonged to the kind of "male public enemy" in the eyes of others.

money and bloodline,

These two weapons allowed Ole to almost never fail in love.

Legally speaking, he is just an ordinary citizen in Germany, and such a cold royal family has almost nothing to do with inheriting the Great Treasure unless there is another Black Death.

But on the side of the sister.

The "noble" pedigree is more effective than the handmade tailored suit and his SLS antique Mercedes sports car.

In old Europe,

Today, in the 21st century, there are still quite a lot of simple girls who are willing to have a dewy love affair with a prince like Ole, if they can marry into the wealthy Cinderella and become Snow White, it is simply in line with the most enthusiastic spring dream in the hearts of girls.

Right now

Ole, accompanied by the housekeeper of the manor, walked through the manor's carpeted turret corridor.

He introduced his cousin to his cousin in a flat tone with the girlfriend of a second-tier female movie star who was famous for her sex appeal that he had just hooked up with at the Berlin Film Festival not long ago.

“…… Cousin Anna's family has been known for their love of art since the time of Joseph II. Their family belonged to the most moderate among the nobility to accept the new government, and refused to go into exile or with the Habsburg crown prince to carry out a restoration movement and set up a federal kingdom on the Danube. ”

Probably for this reason, the council regarded the Elena family as a model of willingness to cooperate, and returned almost all of their land and estate. And the heirs are thin, and several branches have passed into her hands. To this day, my cousin Anna is still one of the country's largest landowners, and even has pastures and soybean plantations in Latin America. ”

"Traitor?"

When the actress with the toad mirror walks, she almost snuggles up in the arms of the young and golden Prince Charming next to her.

She held a slender lady's cigarette between her fingers, painted a smoke ring in a variety of ways, and then said casually.

"What?" Ole didn't hear too clearly.

"You just said that she was among the most moderate among the nobility to accept the new government, and that the council regarded the Elena family as a typical ...... willing to cooperate"

The actress smiled charmingly, admitting humor, "Traitors among you." ”

Ole looked embarrassed.

That's true, but now rich is the boss.

Anna is probably one of the few young women in their circle who are in the best financial situation.

Don't look at it, in terms of volume, it is much worse than the net worth of tens of billions on many Forbes rich lists.

However, the inheritance of family wealth is very stable, especially the assets are of high quality.

The old money in old Europe has always looked down on those tyrannical households, and when the wind comes, they can only make billions or tens of billions in one or two decades, and they can only be good at fortune telling, and they can pass on the money from generation to generation.

Especially now that the art market is so hot,

Just the thousands of famous works in the Elena family's studio, which take a few years to gradually sell, or simply find a relatively large art fund on Wall Street to cooperate, in exchange for cash flow that many listed companies can't take.

Truth be told,

Ole really didn't dare to offend his beautiful fairy-like cousin.

Especially if you say this kind of thing in someone's manor, you can't help but read the air.

He secretly scolded the other party in his heart for tearing up B with other actresses on Twitter is a good hand, usually speaking is really completely brainless, and he really shouldn't bring the other party to attend his cousin's birthday party.

Ole smiled and slapped the other man's swaying buttocks, as he made up his mind to go back and kick the stupid woman away.

Out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the butler in a tuxedo and the maid in a white petticoat in front of him, and he didn't know if it was professionalism or if he really didn't hear it, anyway, he didn't show any unhappy expression on his face, so he relaxed a little.

The butler led Ole to the door of the manor's parlor, knocked lightly, and when he heard the young lady's response from the house, he pushed the door open for him.

Inside the living room.

A woman in a dress sits quietly on a sofa chair by the hearth, with a desert-themed oil painting by the window, and a white paper in her hand.

There was also a large dog lying quietly at her feet.

I accept everyone's criticism, but I'm really a relative newcomer. A lot of plots are written slowly.,But it's really hard.,I'm worried that the reading will be worse if I change it rashly.,I hope you can understand it.。

(End of chapter)