Gu Weijing casually turned his wrist and casually drew a thin watercolor branch on the canvas, feeling the feeling of the Apple pencil pulling out a fog-like transparent color on the canvas.

Watercolour is the queen of Western art and one of Dulwich's main subjects.

He is exposed to watercolor lessons on a daily basis, but he personally prefers sketching and oil painting.

Therefore, unless the teacher has special requirements, Gu Wei often uses colored pencils + water-soluble methods to steal a little lazy.

When ordinary parents buy colored pencils for their children to draw, they will not be distracted by the logo and the small print on it.

At most, it's curious why the price gap between the same colored pencils is so big.

There are three main categories of colored pencils that people often come into contact with.

Oil-based colored pencils, pastel-based colored pencils and water-soluble colored pencils.

The biggest thing they have in common is that they are all called colored pencils, but their classification in the field of art is very different.

It's like whales and sharks are called fish, but mammals and fish are far behind in biological classification.

The water-soluble color pencil that Gu Wei often uses does not have any graphite in it, it is not a pencil in essence, but a solid watercolor pigment wrapped in a wooden barrel.

When painting normally by dry painting, there is no essential difference in color from ordinary oil-based colored pencils.

At most, it's just a little less shiny.

It's no problem to use it for color sketching.

However, once water is added to dissolve it, the texture of the pencil is joined by the dissolved watercolor paint, and it instantly becomes a watercolor painting.

Therefore, sketching and watercolor are not separated.

The system reward that Gu Weijing obtained this time also has something to do with sketching.

[Item: Basic Watercolor Painting Skills]

【Quality: Famous】

[Special effect: You can choose to equip this skill directly, or you can choose to upgrade your existing skill based on it.] 】

[Equipment Requirements: Sketch Level Lv.4, Watercolor Level Lv.4]

【Master Profile: None】

[Remarks——

1. This skill can be combined with "Reddod's Basic Drawing Tips (not owned)" to obtain the limited watercolor skill: Raphael of Flowers.

2. This skill can be combined with "Turner's Basic Drawing Tips (Not Owned)" to obtain the limited watercolor skill: "Romantic Rain"

3. This skill can be combined with "Menzel's Painting Basics (equipped)" to obtain a limited watercolor skill: "Real World"]

When Gu Weijing began to see this reward, he was taken aback.

In the past, the rewards provided by the system were either simple and straightforward knowledge cards, or ready-made skills that could be used directly.

Although he has also opened a one-time consumable such as [Muse's Blessing Candle], or a krypton experience touching thing like [Baiyi Tree].

This is still the first time that this kind of combined skills have appeared.

But.

The quality of the chain quest rewards is still excellent.

Lang Shining's new style painting knowledge card only opened a way for him to this ancient painting method, which is of course very precious.

However, if he is a painter who has master-level Chinese painting and oil painting techniques at the same time, he does not mind picking up the wisdom of his predecessors, and studies the new style painting method every day against various Qing Dynasty historical documents and authentic works in art museums.

After investing a considerable amount of time and effort, you should be able to successfully draw the same doorway.

The likelihood of such a thing happening in the real world is certainly slim to none.

It is not uncommon for painters to study both oil painting and Chinese painting in Eastern Xia, but it is very rare for them to become famous and reach a certain height of painting.

At the same time, the sum of the great painters who can reach the master level at the level of technique, even if the famous Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the fiercely competitive market such as the Dongxia art world, may not be able to exceed the number of fingers of Ngawang's four fleshy claws.

Almost every one of them is a billionaire on the Hurun Artist Rich List.

At this point, who of you is not aiming to become the first in the world and lead the unique art trend of the founding school?

The difficulty of completely restoring Lang Shining's painting method is not necessarily much lower than the difficulty of studying your own painting method from scratch.

Their own painting level may have been higher than that of Lang Shining back then.

No one is interested in emulating the way the ancients painted.

But no matter how low the probability is, there is still a possibility, but every time Gu Weijing uses Menzel's painting techniques, the feeling of being possessed by a master's soul is like divine help.

In addition to owning the system yourself.

There is no other person in the world who can experience such a wonderful feeling.

In terms of cherishing and irreplaceability, the preciousness of this reward is higher than Lang Shining's new style painting card.

"Is it true that each step of the chain of tasks will be rewarded better than the previous one?"

Gu Weijing looked forward to it a little.

The system is not described in detail.

Just looking at the names of these combinations, Gu Weijing was still a little confused, and he didn't know what kind of effect each upgrade represented.

For this.

He deliberately sent the names of Raphael of Flowers, Slow Rain, the real world and the names of the three painters to Mr. Sloth, and asked each other if there was anything to say in the field of watercolor.

Mr. Sloth looked slightly confused as to why he would ask something that seemed a little nonsensical.

But as Gu Weijing's heart, he is a know-it-all in art history.

Mr. Sloth still lived up to his trust, and without much effort, he casually explained his doubts.

It seems that these three limited skill names should be the development direction of three different watercolors.

Redud, Turner, Menzel from France, England, Germany.

They also happen to represent the three most distinctive watercolor powers in the world before the nineteenth century.

In the early Renaissance, watercolor was dominated by monochrome watercolor paintings, and was once criticized by artists as an unattainable and elegant work, but it gradually developed and became colorful and gorgeous, and was very popular with the upper class aristocracy.

Watercolorists have a high social status.

The system mentions that these three painters all have a relatively close relationship with European royalty.

Born in Belgium to be precise, Redoud came to Paris, France, early on, and was appreciated by Napoleon, who built a magnificent rose garden for him at the Mer Mason mansion on the outskirts of Li, and he also became the personal painter of the Empress of France for a long time.

Mr. Sloth told Gu Weijing that "Raphael of Flowers" was the honorific title given to Reddod by the artist at that time.

Known as the "first master of Western watercolor painting" and the best expert in flower painting of all time, this watercolor master is known for his rich colors and extremely realistic color textures.

Copies of its works remain a national gift from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to heads of state.

It seems that if it is not bad, this upgrade direction should be to develop specifically to plant painting and landscape painting.

Turner was the single signature that sustained the artistic face of the British Empire.

As a man who can appear in the current version of the pound with Elizabeth II, this guy's reputation in the watercolor world does not need any introduction from Mr. Sloth, Gu Weijing has been like thunder since he was a child. The Turner Watercolor Award is one of the most awesome watercolor awards out there, known as the fast track to millionaires.

Whoever wins the Turner Prize is the most glamorous artist in the entire Commonwealth this year.

A poor boy can also instantly increase his worth by millions.

However, Mr. Sloth explains the origin of the phrase "romantic rain".

If she remembers correctly, there was a well-known Victorian art criticism magazine called Fraser that commented that Turner's painting style consisted of "romantic rain and complex light".

His paintings about the subtle relationship between air influenced the artistic creation of Monet and Pissarro, representatives of Impressionism, and he is known as the "pioneer of Impressionism".

And the opposite is true of Turner.

Menzel's watercolor style resembles his sketches as precise and sharp as a scalpel.

His works have never been romanticized or embellished, and the realism has reached the pinnacle.

Menzel attaches great importance to the depiction of ordinary people and the reproduction of the true beauty of nature on paper, and only depicts and records what is within his own vision.

All in all.

Gu Weijing speculated that there should be no distinction between high and low quality, and Lei Dude is a god with special upgrades, the ceiling of plant painting, and the capping level of techniques.

Menzel and Turner, one romantic, the other realistic.

Romance and romance can't be overstated.

The pinnacle of realism and realism.

They are all grandmasters of the watercolor world.

If he had a choice, he wondered how Ms. Downing would react if he used Reddod's watercolor to create an alternative "Hundred Flowers".

Or paint a watercolor in Turner's own technique and throw it to England for anonymous publication.

Let's see if an unknown painter can win the Turner Prize.

It's also quite an interesting social experiment.

However, I don't know how long it will take to prescribe the techniques related to these two painters according to the speed of the system task.

The first two are just tempting fruits drawn on a tree, and all I can count on in the short term is the limited skill of "real world".

Of course.

It's good enough, too.

The original Menzel's basic experience in painting alone has helped him make such a big name on the Internet, and if he upgrades it again, he can still get it!

There is good news and bad news.

While the rewards provided by the system are so powerful, the equipment conditions are also slightly higher.

In the past, all the rewards were given, and Gu Weijing just used them directly, and the equipment conditions column was almost useless.

On this skill panel, except for the drawing tips of Reddod and Turner, the equipment conditions of Watercolor Technique Lv.4 are also gray.

Reminds him that he can't equip it for the time being.

Gu Weijing switched and took a look, among his current brush proficiency in the five major categories of painting, the watercolor painting column is currently only - [lv.3 semi-professional (276/1000)]

Actually, I can't blame the system.

It sounds like such a dick blowing up technique, and the conditions for use only need to reach the entry level of professional painters.

Other watercolorists who have worked hard to copy the master's paintings will have to cry to death if they knew that there was such a bug in the system.

Gu Weijing's original painting direction was biased towards oil painting rather than watercolor.

During this period of time, watercolor has never been touched, and today's semi-professional evaluation is still when Chinese painting breaks through the bottleneck, relying on that touch bypass, to pull it up stiffly.

Such a professional and delicate painting technique as watercolor.

There is no return without giving.

If you don't want to contact or study, you can rely on other techniques to improve your perception and use it easily, which is obviously impossible wishful thinking.

"I still have to practice." Gu Weijing muttered to himself in a low voice.

He thought for a moment, recreated a new blank canvas, and glanced up at the teacher on the podium.

The foreign teacher was still there snorting at the computer, stating the history of the Gongbang Dynasty in an undulating tone, seemingly unconcerned about the glorious history of Burma's domination of the Indochina Peninsula, nor about the past of being colonized by the British, looking like a salary thief with no enthusiasm.

I don't even care if I take the students under the podium to listen to the lecture or not.

Anyway, studying abroad doesn't look at this achievement, and as soon as you get out of this professor, this life may have nothing to do with the PPT you learned in class.

Everyone is happy to live a comfortable life.

Gu Weijing also put on headphones, selected an audio called "Mr. Sloth's Fun Little Lesson (4.16)" from the voice memo, and listened to it back.

He has a busy and fulfilling week, not only preparing for the painting of the exhibition and going on a date with Miss Sakai, but also attending Professor Lin Tao's WeChat video class on time.

Equally.

Gu Weijing still maintains the habit of regular voice communication with Mr. Sloth.

Talk about the progress of his contract for the Scholastic Group, and Mr. Sloth reads some chapters from the book to him.

The full text of "Blazing World" is only about 40,000 words, which is a fraction of the size of "The Little Prince", but it is different from "The Little Prince", which is super efficient in completing all the contract content in one or two months.

After entering this book, their work efficiency slowed down.

The Duchess of Newcastle's writing, the first female utopia in human history, retains a plethora of obscure political metaphors and a crooked vocabulary of French and even Hellenistic words, as was the case with the upper class aristocracy.

It is much more difficult to read than what to do in high school SAT (American College Entrance Examination) grammar questions.

Maybe it's an elegant duchess manuscript, but it's really not an easy-to-understand popularity, and after Gu Weijing read two paragraphs casually, his head is almost big.

It was Mr. Sloth's repeated persistence and patient interpretation that made Gu Weijing not quit early halfway.

Miss Elena has always only guided the creative habits of the detective cat, but she is not willing to lower any requirements in the interpretation of the text.

Easy to win and being able to win are two different concepts entirely.

She is not the only smart person in the world, and she is not the only one who found that the text of "Blazing World" has stepped on the award-winning outlet.

Two years ago, American director Carlson and Anna agreed on the same point of view, and with the film "Blazing World" inspired by the second inspiration, he ambitiously landed at the Sundance Festival, ready to return with two awards.

It turned out to be a terrible shot.

The box office and reviews are a mess, with a pitiful 4/10 rating on IMDB.

The illustrator is the second author of the book.

Without a deep understanding of the text, no excellent work can be born.

(End of chapter)