Gu Weijing asked Ngawang to continue to lie down in front of him obediently.

He withdrew his gaze,

Thinking back to the scene in front of me just now, I vividly used the tip of the pen to vividly turn the scene of the tanuki cat relaxing and almost out of my body into a pencil line sketch and recorded it in the material book.

That magical scene just now wasn't magic.

According to Mind Reading for Pets, there is a big difference between the habits of cats and dogs, with dogs being more domesticated and cats being more wary of strangers.

However, both pet natures like to be gently petted.

This reminds them of being licked with their mother's tongue as a child, and dopamine is automatically released in their minds. Sometimes, people will observe the pet rubbing on his leg, which is the appearance of wanting you to be close to it.

The knowledge card also teaches a massage technique to pet pets and enhance emotions.

Human massage has a history of thousands of years, and it is not a new concept to massage animals, but it is more of a practical massage to stimulate muscle growth.

In the long past, Kobe Wagyu cattle were raised by listening to music and massaging the cows with a special brush, and it has even developed into an assembly-line operation. After the race, the precious racehorses will also be treated by a physiotherapist. Academic papers have shown that horses that have been massaged can increase their sprint speed and endurance by nearly 10% in a short period of time compared to the control group.

But it is still quite rare to give a massage to such a less expensive animal as cats and dogs.

In "Pet Mind Reading", animal massage is divided into six techniques: pressure, stretching, rubbing, kneading, squeezing, and pointing, each of which acts on the special position of their muscles and joints.

Some expensive pet centers and pet hospitals may have such programs.

But it definitely doesn't have such a good effect as Gu Weijing, because he has now reached the level of "curing the cattle" for the skeletal muscles of his pets.

Ku Ding to solve the cow, for the interpretation of the cat.

You can only use a knife to solve a cat, while you can use a finger or a pencil to solve a cat.

[Title: "Unnamed Sketch"]

[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Class 2nd Tier (357/10000)]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.4 Career 1st Order (2252/5000)]

[Emotion: Feeling in the heart (consummation)]

"It's easy to empathize with your pet, not only to draw subtle muscle textures, but also to draw their small emotions. Let them turn into pen elves, and if the cartoon movie asks me to draw a poster, maybe it will work very well. ”

He found that his animal painting emotions could also empathize with models.

And having a heart for a pet is the highest level of painting animals.

Historically, there were people who painted horses, cranes, cats and dogs.

Each painter admits that his brushstrokes reveal emotions that are either impassioned, rebellious, or lonely.

Most of them are nonsense, and they are far-fetched by the painter's subjective emotions.

And Gu Weijing really turned this realm into reality.

The only minor drawback is that if he uses Menzel's basic experience in painting, the emotion of painting will be fixed as a simple work.

From the emotional point of view, on the contrary, they began to drag themselves back.

Gu Weijing casually named this material "Tanuki Cat Relaxation".

He flipped through the notebook in front of him.

He still maintains a good habit of drawing line sketches, which he uses to exercise his line ability and accumulate creative materials by the way.

Illustrators will build their own library of materials for easy access in the future, just like students organize their own problem books when they go to school.

In the past two days, I have nothing to do, so I came to play with Ngawang.

In addition to the one just now, I also created a lot of accumulated materials left by the collection, such as "Tanuki Cat Fighting", "Tanuki Cat Sleeping", "Tanuki Cat Wagging Tail" and so on.

"Next time, I can ask Mr. Sloth to find out for himself, whether there is a suitable pet theme illustration request. Well...... This shouldn't be such a complicated requirement. ”

Because it's cute.

In the field of serious art, painting animals can only be regarded as a branch of the genre.

In the field of illustration, drawing animals is the most common study.

It's almost impossible to count how many masterpieces there are.

For example, Andy Warhol's Cat's Eye series, such as "Niels Travels on a Goose", and "The Wind in the Willows" and Disney's "Mickey Mouse" series.

The world's famous illustrations, animal themes can account for a small half.

As long as you have the ability, you can get orders in the high-end field.

"Grandpa Wu, your family Awang, I took you out to play."

Gu Weijing looked at the time, hugged the tanuki cat in his arms, and prepared to go out. Today is the weekend, and he and Katsuko have made an appointment to go to the Good Luck Orphanage to paint.

He was going to bring Ngawang over to play with Jasmine's children.

There are stray cats outside the orphanage, and the female director sometimes feeds them. However, those ticks that are parasitic on cats and cats may also carry the rabies virus.

Uncle Alai never allowed Jasmine to come close.

So the little girl could only stare at it.

Jasmine children will be very happy today.

"If you have this ability, you can be careful that it catches you. Our cats recognize the birth, except for our Wu family, no one recognizes. ”

Old man Wu lay on the glass cabinet with the bracelet at the door to settle the account, and said casually.

The old man had always been proud of their cat's ability to take care of the house, and claimed to have raised a little tiger.

Ngawang never lost a fight with his neighbor's pet, and even drove a larger Shiba Inu into the river.

Only he, the master, can control the other party.

Old man Wu claimed that their cat was "extremely stylish", and even Gu Tongxiang was scratched by Ah Wang's faceless paws, and he damaged the old friend for a long time.

"You're right, Ngawang?"

After the old man Wu pressed a string of numbers on the calculator, he raised his head arrogantly, just in time to see Ah Wang's obedient being held in Gu Weijing's arms, and he shouted at the boy with silky eyes.

That look is as flattering as it gets, and the amber pupils are about to be drawn.

Ngawang didn't pay any attention to Old Man Wu's call, and only stuck out his tongue, wanting to please Gu Weijing's chin.

"Ngawang, good."

Gu Weijing touched the head of the tanuki, took out a fish ham sausage from the schoolbag, peeled off the plastic cover, and stuffed it into its mouth.

Ham sausage has a high salt content, which is junk food for pets, and it is delicious and cannot be eaten too much.

Gu Weijing is the reward given to him for being a model for so long.

"Hmph, a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised."

Old man Wu's face turned dark, and he muttered angrily: "Gu family boy, feed Ah Wang less of this kind of thing, what if you don't catch mice!" ”

"Goodbye Grandpa Wu. I had time to play chess with my grandfather. ”

Gu Weijing smiled at Old Man Wu, and walked out of the old man's literary shop with the raccoon cat in his arms.

He knew that Old Man Wu was in a bad mood today.

...... per month Uh, no...... Old man Wu always has a few unhappy days every year.

People aren't angry with themselves or really at their cats.

It's that Old Man Wu's official addiction has flare up again.

Recently, it is time for the leadership of the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association to change and the opportunity to recommend new members to the Myanmar National Painting and Calligraphy Association, which he mentioned to Mr. Gu.

The full members of the National Painting Association, administrative treatment and social status have made a qualitative leap compared with the local painting associations.

The kind that can be reimbursed for business class when traveling on a business trip.

Perhaps the Yangon Painting Association still has the nature of a grass stage team, which is just a child in European countries, and it is relatively watery. It's also a bit useful when applying to college.

Gu Tongxiang's identity as a member of the Yangon Painting Association, Mars Gallery did not mention it, and there is no need to mention it.

In the eyes of the InterContinental Gallery, there is and there is no exactly the same.

If it is replaced by the National Painting Association...... It probably won't be of much use.

After all, this is not the Art Association of Dongxia or the Royal Society of Fine Arts or anything. With the size of Gagosian and Maas, you can still not care.

It's just that the recognition is more or less appropriate.

After all, no matter how short the generals are, they are also the dozens of people selected from fifty or sixty million people, and there will be some merit. In some cases, it can even attract the attention of some medium-sized galleries in the second and third tier of Asia.

The quota of the National Painting Association is jokingly called "halved" among the people. In other words, for ordinary Burmese painters, no matter who becomes a member of the National Painting Association, the market price can increase by at least 50%.

Especially for artists, the most attractive point is not the money, but the places in the biennale.

The National Painting Association has a number of recommended artists for certain international biennials.

The Singapore Biennale, the Magic City Biennale, and even the most important and prestigious cultural exhibitions in the world...... The legendary Venice Biennale, the supreme Venice.

That's right.

The National Association of Paintings can send a local painter directly to the Venice Biennale.

THIS INVOLVES A SMALL BUG IN THE ART WORLD.

The Venice Biennale is composed of two parts, namely the national exhibition and the thematic exhibition representing the national team and the Grand Gallery.

Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Dalí, Yayoi Kusama...... Artists who have collectively been worth more than $10 billion have been rejected by the Venice Biennale.

But Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Syria are so turbulent, and the worth of artists with names and surnames is all combined, and they may not be able to reach a fraction of a finger from others.

Since it is a sovereign state, the cultural department can directly recommend painters from their highest-level artists' associations to participate in the biennale through a special channel.

The Organizing Committee of the Venice Biennale will give a certain number of places to different countries.

The number of places that fall into the hands of each country varies, and the difficulty of competition is different.

It's a bit like a football team World Cup qualifier, the difference between the European zone and the Asian zone.

Although the scale of the national pavilions may be larger, the developed countries such as Dongxia, Japan and South Korea, France and Italy are also gathered.

Artists whose sales are not in the million-dollar order can get tickets is a fool's dream.

Every year it is the inter-state art Olympiad, and in order to highlight the country's artistic heritage, the cost of organizing the Venice Biennale is astronomical.

Hearst spent almost $100 million, but he didn't make a splash.

In places like Myanmar, chickens peck at each other.

African painters also have an element of racial political correctness and can gain a certain degree of preference for awards. Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, and other small countries in Southeast Asia are almost all made of soy sauce.

In fact, everyone doesn't care anymore,

Playing soy sauce again is also going to the Venice Biennale to make soy sauce.

Who says that it is not an honor to be able to run with the Nobel Prize?

Even for the quota of the Biennale, there are rumors in the art world every year that there will be some commotion.

European and American art galleries will exchange for more exhibition places from small countries that have no intention of participating in the competition through means such as cancellation of national debts and foreign exchange investment.

This kind of unreliable rumor, which sounds like nonsense to the extreme, is really an untold secret in the industry.

The Venice Biennale has this unreasonable magic.

Even with this hidden shortcut to the sky.

Old man Wu and Gu Tongxiang would not be able to make this unique pie to be smashed on their heads, such a completely unrealistic dream.

The highest hope in their lives is to step into the grave and hang their names on the list of the National Painting Association.

You can comfort your ancestors.

However, the National Painting Association is not something that Old Man Wu's ability can influence.

If you want to join it, you have to be able to show some excellent strength.

If a painting can't be sold for 20 million US dollars, it has to be able to sell a single work of 20 million kyats, or a similar level of difficulty, to be able to pass the review threshold.

It has been four years since the Yangon Calligraphy and Painting Association last entered the National Painting Association and became a national treasure artist in Myanmar.

Old man Wu would add his name to the list of applicants every year, and then he would be routinely brushed down.

Trust relationships, find people, give gifts, and go through the back door.

The old man tried everything he could think of.

Seeing that he may not be able to continue to serve as the permanent director of the local painting association in the next term.

Looking forward to it again and again, it is still disappointed again and again.

The big apple on the tree was obviously hanging in front of him, and the old man's legs were almost lame, and there was always a difference of a few centimeters.

Old man Wu was very annoyed and sad because of this.

Gu Weijing ignored the anxious old man Wu, he was carrying a schoolbag, holding a material folder in one hand, and holding Ah Wang, who was glued to his arms in the other, and was about to take the car to the orphanage to play with his sister.

When I walked to my door, I was running into a courier delivering couriers door-to-door.

The little brother wearing the red and yellow corporate culture shirt of "DHL Express, one step faster" pedaled a tricycle through the tree-lined road on the bank of the Yangon River, and the chain made a squeaky sound like a rat's bite.

"Gu's Book Gallery, No. 36, North Yangon River Road, Yongsheng District, Yangon City, who is Mr. Gu Weijing, go out to get the express."

The courier boy glanced at the house number, threw the package in the back bucket of the tricycle on the steps in front of the calligraphy and painting shop, and then continued to squeak, squeak, squeak to the next house.

Gu Weijing was already accustomed to the local express service attitude, and he was powerless to complain, so he tore Ngawang out of his arms first.

Then bend down to pick up the package in front of you and shake off the dust.

He unwrapped the black package, revealing the cover of a fairy tale book inside.

"This is Mr. Sloth's new edition of The Little Prince?"

Mr. Sloth has already communicated with him, and he has received a sample book of The Little Prince from the publishing house, which he will send to himself through the Schönbrunn Palace office in the next few days.

That's it.

Gu Weijing looked at this fairy tale book with a good printing effect that he didn't expect.

The process of painting has gone through several twists and turns, and when the final product is placed in front of me, I still have a great sense of accomplishment and harvest.

This is a milestone moment in Gu Weijing's life - he officially completed a high-end manuscript cooperation.

Since then, at least in the group of illustrators, he is no longer just an online illustrator, but has a big project as a work resume.

This is like the career transformation made by an Internet celebrity who shoots short videos to a serious TV drama star.

There is a qualitative upgrade of social status.

The detective cat who has drawn "Mr. Hyperion" is just an Internet celebrity painter, while the detective cat who has successfully completed the Scholastic Group's "Little Prince Project" is an artist with more than 90% gold content in the eyes of employers.

This implicit gilding upgrade may be more helpful than the amount of monetary benefit that can be obtained from the Little Prince project itself.

After completing the process of going from 0 to 1, it will be much easier for him to go from 1 to 2 in the future.

"Thanks to Mr. Sloth, I was able to find myself such a great project in the first task."

Gu Weijing thought as he opened the little prince.

He saw Mr. Sloth's gift on the title page, and it was beautifully written.

This is the first time Gu Weijing has seen the handwriting of the mysterious Mr. Sloth, and Gu Weijing's eyes lit up.

There are very few people in foreign countries who can write a beautiful handwriting.

Yale Oxford, leaving the computer keyboard, wrote on the paper like a dog crawling all over the place.

Not surprising either.

Painting art is something that all human civilizations will invent, and there were murals in the Neolithic Age.

The brush calligraphy system based on the shape and sound of Chinese characters is the artistic creation and aesthetic trend of the unique invention of the Dongxia people based on the text to carry the Tao and the book to carry the bones.

This is the only one in the world, and there is no semicolon.

Even the ancient Egyptians, who had a lot of pictographic elements in the same script, did not have such a thing as calligraphy.

If you have to do hard calculations, the Latin language family also has classifications based on commercial copper plate script, imperial capitalization, Gothic secular style/sketch style, etc., that is, people often say flower style and round style, but it is too primitive compared with the calligraphy level of the Dongxia cultural circle that has been raised to write gods and freehand.

In terms of the theoretical system of calligraphy and the depth of aesthetic attainments, the gap between English calligraphy and the system of Chinese calligraphy that was continuously improved under the imperial examination system is similar to the gap between the aircraft invented by the Wright brothers and the F22 stealth fighter.

But such a beautiful character is still very recognizable. Only a few upper-class people in foreign countries have the money and time to train their children to practice fonts.

This is completely in line with Gu Weijing's imaginary profile of Mr. Sloth as a "personable, gentle, middle-aged uncle of high society".

"Noble works of art...... Noble soul ......"

Gu Weijing read the above text again.

He was no stranger to this famous artistic adage, and in order to save a few euros on materials, the family did not subscribe to a physical paper magazine. However, in each issue of the electronic issue of Oil Painting magazine, there will be the same tribute to Ms. K, as a suffix.

Of course, this Mr. Sloth is also a reader of Oil Painting magazine.

Gu Weijing put away this very commemorative "The Little Prince" sample book in his schoolbag, and he found that there was another package that the courier brother had just thrown down.

This package is thin, not too heavy, and has a sponge on the outside.

What is it?

Gu Weijing doesn't remember that he had recently shopped online.

Curious, he opened the outer sponge and found that it was a mahogany picture frame.

Underneath the glass of the picture frame is a note of elegant color. It seems that after someone wrote it, it was encapsulated in a photo frame by the secretary and sent it.

There is only a short line on the sticky note.

[Gu Weijing Xiaoyou:

I heard that you have joined the Yangon Calligraphy and Painting Association, congratulations. I can paint with Mr. Cao Xuan, and I have been a hero since ancient times. If you have achieved greater results in painting in the future and want to join the National Painting Association, you may want to consider giving me a call. Another: Prepare well for the Singapore Biennale, a price that cannot be refused, I always count.

- Chen]

Gu Weijing stared at the words in the frame for a few seconds before connecting this Mr. Chen with the elegant middle-aged businessman he had once had a relationship with in the Good Luck Orphanage.

As the chairman of the Charity Chamber and one of the most well-known collectors in the region, it is not surprising that Mr. Chan is well-informed about his affairs.

It's strange that people are willing to continue to pay attention to themselves.

When he was at the orphanage, Mr. Chan promised that if he did make it to the Lion City Art Exhibition, they would be willing to pay a good price for his paintings.

Gu Weijing didn't take it too seriously.

A big collector who can open a joint venture with Toyota to open a car factory, what kind of paintings he wants to buy can't buy, most likely just casually.

There's no need to take it too seriously and suffer from gains and losses.

After such a long time, Mr. Chen was surprised that he could still remember his name, and he didn't expect to send a handwritten note.

It seems that he is not serious,

But people are serious.

"A price that can't be refused, how much can't be refused?"

Gu Weijing has always demanded that he should pursue hard work in his technique, and not too much to equate the value of artwork with money.

Seeing this sticky note, it still made him a little excited.

With his current painting skills, it is difficult to say that he has won an award, but it is not difficult to meet the requirements of the exhibition.

Different levels, different visions.

For ordinary residents of the city, it is very expensive to spend 100,000 kyats on paintings.

And an offer that collectors worth hundreds of millions of dollars can call impossible to refuse, I am afraid that it will cost $100,000 to go up.

This era.

The chairman of the Myanmar Painting Association, the most expensive work sold in his life, may not have this number.

This is not only the sales, but also Mr. Chen's affirmation and investment in his painting techniques.

In the career of a great modern painter, it must be accompanied by the recognition and pursuit of his artistic level by wealthy buyers, not during his lifetime, but also after his death.

Kojiro Matsukata, the eldest son of the prime minister of the Meiji era, played such roles for Monet, Corkerian for Picasso, the owner of the MGM casino in Las Vegas, and Damien Hirst for the prince of the United Arab Emirates.

Without the massive funds of these collectors who do not regard money as money, they would not be able to achieve the forced style of a great painter standing on the clouds.

"Mr. Chen, will he become the first big buyer in my life?"

Gu Weijing turned this thought in his mind.

(End of chapter)