The paintings on the walls include sketches and watercolors, and a gouache painting of a campus landscape is interspersed.

Gouache and watercolor are close relatives of the same painting method as a pigment solution.

The Academy of Fine Arts education system in the Western world is divided into two schools.

The Soviet Academy of Fine Arts, led by the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, and the Western European education system, dominated by the Italian, Anglo-French systems.

Dulwich takes the latter.

In its course classification, the official name of gouache courses is even directly called "opaque watercolor", which is taught as a branch of watercolor courses.

Professor Wattle noticed Gu Weijing's eyes and stood on tiptoe under his uncomfortable desk.

When students find out that they secretly drink and watch football at noon, they will feel a little embarrassed.

When students stare at the paintings on the wall with scrutinizing eyes, it is a completely different feeling.

In front of ordinary students, Wattle is still quite confident.

He took many classes of students with him.

The children came and went in waves.

It's not nice to say.

Many art students who use art as a springboard and transfer to non-painting majors in college.

Perhaps he was the most skilled painter they could get close to in their lives.

Don't look at some of the students who are hanging out of class and don't listen well, and think that Professor Wattel is too old-fashioned and strict and demanding.

That's because I don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings, and the teaching resources around me are too easy to get, and I don't know how to cherish them.

The tuition fee for a semester at Dulwich College is higher than the combined annual income of many local families.

There is a reason why you are expensive.

In the future, when they are adults and enter society, when they are forty or fifty years old, they want to pick up a paintbrush again in their leisure time and go to one of those fifty or sixty dollars an hour adult painting class.

There is a high probability that the teacher in the class will not be able to reach the level of Wattel's painting.

Not to mention his extensive teaching experience.

In front of these students, Professor Wattel is of course very confident, he can dick as much as he wants, he can train as much as he wants, and he can train him as much as he wants.

It's just that...... The young man now sitting on the couch was an exception.

In front of this student.

All his superiority was like a balloon punctured by a needle, and it disappeared without a trace.

Wattle had seen Gu Weijing sketch in his class.

The brush, the technique, the line tracing - he has been a teacher for so many years, and he has seen some awesome students.

It's rare to be able to reach this level.

Techniques are not everything in the art world, but in art school, techniques are almost everything.

The biggest difference between a teacher and a student is that the teacher can bring students to improve their drawing ability.

If the skill levels of the two sides are reversed, then what confidence can an art teacher have?

Wattle can indeed put on a straight face and put on a stand as a teacher.

But.

In front of a student who can co-paint with Cao Xuan, does it make any sense to engage in this kind of posturing?

"Gu, what school do you want to apply to?"

Wattle took a sip of his teacup, and asked kindly with a few incongruous smiles on the Germanic people's old-fashioned and square faces.

"Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts."

"Ah, the university in my hometown, it's a very good school, the beef rolls and mandarin meatballs there are very good, but unfortunately I didn't apply at that time, and I studied in Denmark when I was in college."

Professor Wattle thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Do you want to follow in Mr. Cao Xuan's footsteps?" With your grades, GPA, and current resume, it's a bit of a loss not to read the Big Four. I remember you used to say that you were interested in studying in France. ”

"It's not bad to consider the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris."

The Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts has been ranked well in the past two years, and occasionally there are a few years when it can rise to the top of some teaching rankings, but it is still a niche choice.

Fame is limited to art students and their parents.

It's a bit like going to study in the United States, choosing a low-key school like Brown University, which is not visible on the Ivy League list, rather than Harvard and Yale.

Popularity and academic recognition.

The four major international academies of fine arts are still the highest.

Running to any place in the world, Paris Gome, Repin Academy of Fine Arts and other schools, they are all well-known golden signboards, and art students are god-like existences in the eyes.

Professor Wattle reminded that there is also a selfish one.

According to the policy of the Dulwich Group, if students can be admitted to the four major art schools, the bonuses given to the campus and the professors are the most high-end, and it is also convenient to publicize the enrollment of parents when they sign up for the next year.

Listen to the most bluffing.

"In recent years, the EU education department has a joint training program with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, which I think is good and want to try it."

Gu Weijing's eyes were still looking at the picture frame on the wall, and replied casually.

"Oh, oh, oh, that's it, it's good to know in your heart."

Professor Vattle nodded, not saying anything more.

This year, Dulwich can have Gu Weijing and Katsuko Sakai, as well as Mrs. Cruz's improvement class and recommendation letters, in the hearts of these faculty and staff, it is already a big pie from the sky.

Teaching students from the University of Rotterdam is a good platform for Dulwich and a credit to the teachers.

Further up.

That's the student's own ability, it's such a student who applies to their school, not the school that cultivates such a student.

At least their Yangon campus has not had such a child for many years.

Not to mention students.

Even if Professor Wattle applied to the top art academies in the world at his current level, he didn't have much confidence that he would be admitted.

As a person who eats free pies, you need to be able to learn to be grateful.

No matter what flavor of pie the chef stuffs into your mouth, whether it's a beef patty, pizza or apple pie, wipe your mouth and stick out your thumb to say "Very good" is enough.

It's too uninteresting to pick and choose.

As far as Gu Weijing's current level of painting is concerned, any international high school in the city is eager to pounce on him, take him in his mouth, and offer him a scholarship with both hands.

This verse comes to mind.

Gu Weijing's performance of staring at the paintings on the wall for a long time made Wattle even more restless.

It's like a small county town that has only produced one for more than ten years, and even the county parents know the name, and the Qingbei escort student who has also been specially approved for a bonus of 150,000 yuan, suddenly had a brain pump one day, and he didn't lie in the back of the classroom to sleep and fall in love with his sister.

This great bodhisattva suddenly slipped into the head teacher's office, staring at the name of the graduate school of the two normal colleges in the frame of the simple photo, and looked at it strangely.

The invisible and huge pressure in the heart of the head teacher.

Whether the dignity of the teacher can be maintained depends only on the mood of the cow.

"You, what do you want to ask me?"

Wattle was in a state of anxiety for a long time, and when he saw that Gu Weijing had not spoken for a long time, he took the initiative to ask in line with the attitude of raising his head with a knife and shrinking his head with a knife.

He racked his brains to think that he could confidently teach the other party something.

Draw?

Don't be funny, it's good if the other party doesn't teach himself to sketch in turn.

Probably......

Well, this young student probably couldn't have come over to discuss with him the taste of craft beer and Bayern Munich's tactical style.

"I guess, maybe he's a fan too." The professor's uncertain calculations.

"Drawing, of course."

When Wattle couldn't help but think about whether Gu Weijing preferred Lewandowski or Kane as the star of the home team.

Gu Weijing finally opened his mouth to stop his cranky thoughts.

"Sir, your watercolors are so good and impressive."

Gu Weijing was silent for a moment.

It's secretly throwing calligraphy and painting identification techniques at the watercolor on the wall.

Dulwich's watercolour teacher was the perfect person he could think of in his everyday social circle.

The level is not too high, and it is definitely enough to lead yourself to the path of professional painters.

Sure enough.

The watercolor paintings hanging on the walls are in the middle of the same level of painting technique and sketch, and they seem to be slightly higher than the sketches, and they are not as high as Lv.5.

It should have been blocked by the bottleneck between the first and second levels of the profession, and it has been blocked there for many years.

"Thank you, thank you."

Wattle didn't expect to be praised by a student for his impressive drawing, and his first reaction was to be honored.

It's like when I was still in school many years ago, my face lit up when I was praised by the teacher in the studio.

It took two seconds to dim the flavor before Wattle reacted.

He touched his meticulously combed hair and asked strangely.

"Gu, do you want to practice watercolor?"

"Can't you?"

Gu Weijing was also stunned and asked rhetorically.

"Oh, it's not impossible, it's just that I didn't expect you to be interested." Wattle shook his head.

He even considered the possibility that Gu Weijing came to him to watch the game, but he didn't expect the seemingly obvious answer of "watercolor".

Mainly because even though watercolor and drawing are one, in an art student, this doesn't quite make sense.

I have the impression that Gu Weijing's watercolor results are not outstanding, and his sketching techniques are too outstanding.

It's like a student who has already started to score in the Math Olympiad and suddenly finds someone to take a physics class.

How to say it.

It's not that it can't, but it's very unnecessary.

It is better to play to your strengths, continue to study mathematics, and see if you can participate in the national training team and win Asian or world-class Olympiad medals, which will bring greater benefits.

"If I were eighteen years old, sketching was so good. He doesn't do anything, he only sketches every day, doesn't talk about girlfriends, doesn't go to parties, doesn't watch football, and practices him for ten hours a day. As soon as I arrived at university, I participated in various sketch competitions. rushed to the Repin University Student Sketch Gold Award, found a big gallery packaging, and debuted in situ. ”

"In that case, I will drive a Porsche today, so why bother to run to Yangon to be a teacher for the allowance of three melons and two dates."

Wattle thought to himself.

Art students are interested in all kinds of painting methods in order to apply to universities, and they are all good at laying a foundation.

Like Gu Weijing, after picking him from the university to picking him from the university, he should work hard to give full play to the advantages of the longboard.

Art students want to be painters, and how to become more visible among the thousands of competitors, and being selected by the gallery is the first priority.

Practicing watercolor or something, how important is it to be famous?

If you really like it, you can wait for the sketch to be noticed by the art scout agent, and then learn it again when you have time in the future.

"Professor, I've been very interested in watercolor lately, and I want to improve it in particular, but I've encountered some problems, can you take a moment to solve my doubts?"

Gu Weijing guessed what Professor Wattel was thinking.

He felt that he couldn't explain that he had such an incredible assistance as a system, so he just skipped the possible inquiries and perfunctory and went straight to the point.

"Oh, of course, that's what I do."

When Wattle saw Gu Weijing's eyes, he hesitated for a moment, and shrugged his shoulders without avoidance.

The world of genius mortals does not understand.

Perhaps, this is the willfulness of others!

"I don't have classes after three o'clock this semester, and my office door is always open for you." Professor Wattle smiled.

There is no teacher who does not like to teach cattle people.

Not to mention anything else, a student like Gu Weijing is running to ask for his own advice, which makes him feel quite accomplished.

The people Cao Xuan has brought with him, and he has taught one-on-one in private, rounding up, he has also cooperated with Master Cao Xuan across time and space.

In the future, when you drink with friends, you can process it casually, which is a good cost to brag.

……

"I HAVE A QUESTION, HAVE YOU BEEN PRACTICING WATERCOLOR PAINTING ON YOUR IPAD ALL ALONG?"

Fifteen minutes later.

After listening to Gu Weijing, he hid the specific content of the painting and roughly explained the problems he was facing.

Professor Wattel asked, rubbing his chin.

"Yes, it's certainly not as good as real paper and brushes, but it's very easy to use."

Gu Weijing nodded.

"Huh."

Wattle smiled inexplicably, "You kids, you're so ...... Uh, not professional enough. ”

He habitually wanted to stink a word about an amateur rookie, but when the words came to his lips and looked at Gu Weijing, there was still some pressure in his heart.

Temporarily replaced with a more moderate rhetoric.

"TEACHER, I USED TO USE THE IPAD TO DRAW OIL PAINTINGS OR SKETCHES, AND THE EFFECT WAS OKAY, AND I COULD FEEL THE IMPROVEMENT OF MY PRACTICE. I see a lot of internationally renowned illustrators using tablets to deliver their manuscripts. ”

Gu Weijing said.

The 4096 level of the mainstream Apple stylus is accurate in the presentation of the artist's brush strength, and can restore the texture and brush peaks of most brushes on the paper 1:1.

"Is there a problem with this practice?"

His heart moved when he noticed Professor Wattel's sneering at his own statement.

Gu Weijing had been teased by Katsuko's younger brother Tsunamasa Sakai for drawing on an iPad before, based on his knowledge of Professor Wattel.

The other party is a very strict person.

It is likely that his attitude is not a stereotypical bias against the digital painting board, and it is estimated that he has his own reasons.

"You said it was an illustrator."

PROFESSOR VATTEL'S GRINNED, "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANY PROFESSIONAL WATERCOLORIST DRAW ON AN IPAD?" No, not one, this cannot be absolute. ”

"YOU CAN PRACTICE SKETCHING ON A TABLET, YOU CAN PRACTICE OIL PAINTING, YOU CAN PRACTICE CRAYON DRAWING, BUT YOU CAN'T PRACTICE WATERCOLOR, YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY WATERCOLOR MASTER ON YOUR IPAD, AND IT WILL BE THE SAME IN ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS, AND I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS CONCLUSION."

The professor blew on his teacup and watched the water ripple on it.

"Watercolor is about the art of water."

"Gu, if you want to practice it well, you have to let yourself turn into liquid in your mind the moment you pick up the pen, and then-"

"Feel gravity with your heart."

(End of chapter)