"Breath, use the breath to control the rhythm of the pen. This is Tongzi Gong, I have practiced since I was a child, if you want to control the use of the pen, you can try to copy Zhao Mengfu or Yan Zhenqing's word stickers, grandpa let me have been more since I was a child. ”

Gu Weijing shrugged his shoulders and said his knack for controlling the brush.

“Breathe? (Breathe)"

Wattle raised an eyebrow, looking a little confused.

This.

He stared at the flowing regular script on the paper for a long time, and when he finally turned his head again and set his eyes on Gu Weijing.

Seems to understand.

I don't seem to understand.

It looked like the first time I walked into a massage parlor by the Yangon River and saw an old acupuncture Chinese medicine practitioner who used a set of silver needles to prick the patient's back.

Half are marveling at the witchcraft of the East.

Half of them wanted to call the police.

At the end of the day, though.

The sketch professor was still a little more amazed in his heart.

Artists are a group of people who are chattering with gods.

There are yoga masters who have to practice Pilates before painting, there are old monks like Boggs who signed up for the Eastern Xia tour group, indulged in Zen Buddhism, and then took refuge in my Buddha, and there are female artists like Mrs. Sakai who love mindfulness.

At the end of the day, anyway.

It is a kind of tempering of the state of mind and the control of the stability of muscle painting.

Wattle regarded this as some kind of mystical traditional kung fu, full of unclear meaning, and he was amazed in his mouth.

Don't look at the efficacy, look at the efficacy.

As a result, the smoothness and stability of the pen in front of you cannot be faked.

Sketch the line.

Wattle can still secretly use a pencil to learn to imitate, but the Chinese painting of the moon flower, and the fluency of the three words Gu Weijing, are like magic in front of him.

He knew that even if he took the chicken pitch pen and copied it, he wouldn't be able to copy it.

"Well, I thought that a round-tipped watercolor brush was more difficult to control than a flat-tipped basic brush, but I didn't expect it...... You still have this hand. ”

Wattle gave a thumbs up and sighed again.

After figuring out that it wasn't my own teaching dick.

His mood was a little indescribably complicated.

It's like turning out a 5 million two-color ball lottery ticket in the washing machine beyond the date of redemption, and finally found that there was a wrong number, and it turned out that there was no mixed feeling of winning the lottery at all.

At least.

He didn't have to feel sorry for missing the professor of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts that he had just imagined in his mind.

"I'm available every Wednesday and Friday afternoon." Wattle thought about his upcoming agenda for a moment.

"It's up to you. If you have time, you can come to me and draw. I can teach you a little lesson. The difficulty with watercolor is that it is more delicate than oil painting, and it has such a good – well, 'soft brush technique'. It shouldn't take us more than a month to go through all the watercolor fields, all the common painting methods we can encounter. ”

Wattel rubbed his hands together and suggested.

Even if Gu Weijing's ability to control the watercolor pen, he can't practice it.

But when I taught the other party to paint watercolors, it was not bad to continue to secretly ponder his sketch lines.

"Well, thank you, sorry for your trouble."

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

The teacher took the initiative to take the time to teach himself, and there was no reason for him not to agree.

The paintings in my exhibition and the Detective Cat are on track, and it's time to take the time to learn watercolor and add a common technique.

He doesn't learn much about technique in Dulwich's large classes now.

Free one-on-one coaching is still useful.

The level of the master technique provided by the system is too high.

It is as high as a mountain covered by clouds and mist, with no end in sight.

There are some down-to-earth and simple painting principles.

On the contrary, Professor Wattel is like this, and he learns faster by mentioning it on the side.

The system will provide knowledge cards as a reward, because experiential drawing skills cannot completely replace knowledge learning.

Just the simplest flat coating method, today Gu Weijing has gained a lot.

It shouldn't take more than a month, until he systematically combs through all the overall watercolor techniques.

It's time to officially break through the first level of the profession.

"When you go back. Try to apply a layer of color to the pillars of the bridge deck with the same gray and white paint on top of the color that has already been painted, and finally apply some mottled masonry of the same color again to enhance the color. ”

"Observe the effect of the color that gradually deepens and darkens as the paint continues to cover the overlapping colors."

"You mentioned earlier that you felt difficulties when dyeing, and the so-called dyeing is the continuous superposition of the flat coating method."

"The same pigment is repeatedly superimposed on the paper to present four color levels, from light to heavy, from oily smooth to mottled and dull. This is beyond the reach of oil painting. ”

"Once you have the color in hand, the difficulties are gone."

Even when he assigned his homework after class, Professor Wattle did not forget to secretly step on the oil painter: "By the way, there is another point that is different from oil painting, the quality of the watercolor paint you use cannot be bad." Do you use student-grade paint? ”

"I bought it according to the list of consumables sent to us by the school at the beginning of the semester every year." Gu Weijing nodded.

"Changed. Change to a more expensive one. It doesn't matter if the brand is shiming, Faber-Castell, Windsor Newton, Holbein can be, but if you want to buy professional-grade, or master-grade or above, you can't save this money. The sketch professor reminded.

"I still have two boxes of unopened watercolors here, you can take them back if you need them."

Art students spend a lot of money to study.

For example, the most common solid watercolor of Shi Mingke, and the ordinary watercolor paint used by students, is only a few dollars a box.

A small box of master-grade pigments basically costs more than 100 dollars, which is more than the entire monthly income of ordinary families around Yangon.

Wattle remembered that Gu Weijing's family situation was average, so he kindly reminded him.

"It's okay, I have it at home, and the practice paint is so heavy?"

Gu Weijing shook his head politely and refused the teacher's kindness.

He's past the time when he needs to care about the cost of paint.

Frankly, from a monetary point of view.

Regardless of the sons and daughters of the European campus, there should be no richer students in history than his hands in Dulwich College Yangon.

"Important, important."

"Oil paints are mainly the difference between how fast they dry and how slow they dry. The formula of different grades of pigments in watercolor is completely different. Amateur-grade pigments are filled with colorants and organic pigments, which will reduce the vividness of the colors, which will not be a big problem when you are familiar with the brushwork, but it is not necessary to create really serious works. ”

"What's more, when it mixes colors, it affects the creator's control over the paint."

"Repeated overlapping of two colors in a professional-grade watercolor can turn into a deep, dull yellow that gives the impression of heat, while a mix of two pigments with the same name in a student or children's watercolor set can turn brownish-red. If you practice watercolor, you can't save on consumables. ”

Wattle touched his chin.

"A word of advice, paints and brushes, to a painter, are like a hockey player and his bat, a tennis player and his racket. You have to be optimistic about your own things at all times, and don't give others a chance to make a fuss. ”

"Even in the days when I was in school, there were many people who were jealous and secretly replaced the solid watercolors in their classmates' sketch boxes before the summer art exams......

He casually sighed at the dark rumors he had heard when he was a student, opened the small drawer next to the workbench on one side, took out a dozen pieces of cardboard stapled together, and handed them to Gu Weijing.

"By the way, this is for you too."

"This is a color lightness chart, and the colors on each piece of cardboard are divided into eight stages, from light to dark. For example, take the off-white as an example, 8 is the darkest, representing a deep inky iron gray, and the color palette numbered Arabic numeral 1 is the brightest, almost pure white. ”

"The watercolor color you just brought up to paint on the covered bridge. The brightness is around 2. ”

"When you go back to practice, you try to add water to each pigment slowly, from light to dark, and strive to bring out 8 kinds of brightness with clear boundaries, and strive to match the brightness and luster of these cards."

"When you have these cards in mind, every time you pick up a pen, you know exactly what you want."

Wattle laughed twice and said, "Gu, do you know where the biggest advantage is when you grasp the brightness of the pigment accurately?" ”

"More perceptive to color?"

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

"Wrong, it's easy to make money."

The sketch professor winked mysteriously at the student in front of him.

"Uh...... You're talking about monochrome watercolors? Gu Weijing probably guessed what Teacher Watel meant.

The classification of schools in watercolor painting is not as complex as in oil painting.

Masters such as Picasso and Dalí also occasionally created some watercolor works in their lifetimes.

But on the whole, in the category of specialized watercolor painters, the painting style is rarely too abstract.

From the moment this technique was born, it has always pursued the pinnacle of realism.

Just as Impressionism is divided into Pre-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the so-called Neo-Impressionism.

It's also realistic.

The most realistic way of being pursued by market investors in different periods is also hot and cold.

Before the 19th century, the most powerful representatives of the watercolor style were definitely Turner and Redund, which were represented by academic painters who were influenced by Romanticism.

After the end of World War I.

The center of gravity of the Western art market began to shift from the traditional European continent to North America.

Those watercolorists who were sought after by the market became neo-realist painters influenced by the Hudson River Landscape School, represented by Andrew Wise and Frank Webb.

Their creation directly influenced the restoration of the scene in watercolor brushes by "photorealism", and reached the birth of a watercolor style that reached the point of nitpicking.

The United States has also been hailed by the art world as the new watercolor kingdom.

The head of the city changes the king's flag.

In the last 50 years, the art trend of watercolor has begun to shift from Europe and the United States to Asia.

Just like many avant-garde photographers now, they have given up advanced SLRs, given up color photography, and began to play with antique large-format cameras, daguerreotyped cameras, and black-and-white cameras.

The development of watercolor also has a bit of a retro feel.

After "realism" had been developed to the extreme by painters, artists began to play with paint.

They no longer pursue bright images, and many galleries and curators like to get some monochromatic, hazy watercolors, simple colors but distinctive personalities.

This also belongs to the "success formula" that it is easier for ordinary young painters to make money and become famous.

"The high place of this skill, a kind of pigment, can also be transformed into a variety of colors in the painter's mind. For example, some of the most sought-after painters in the watercolor market are currently available. Whether it's Naomi Tydeman, a 13-year winner of the Turner Prize for painting black-and-white landscapes, or several Asian urban watercolorists influenced by the Monochrome School in Korea. They all have a good grasp of the brightness of the pigments. ”

Wattle nodded, a little regretful.

"If I could go through my school days all over again, I would probably work harder to improve my ability to grasp paint and color than my painting techniques, which may be the best chance I could sign up for a good gallery back then."

"Playing with paint and playing with techniques may be the same thing from the bones. But maybe the latter is too demanding for talent, and I ...... Probably don't have that talent. ”

"Gu, you are the most amazing student I have ever taught. Maybe only people like you were born to paint. Hopefully, you can go a little further than I do. ”

Gu Weijing heard the literary sadness in the sketch teacher's tone.

In that kind of sadness, there is a regret that cannot be hidden. It's like passing by a beautiful rich daughter in front of the porch of the studio when you go to school, you smile at her, and she smiles at you, but you know in your heart that you are destined to miss her.

Gu Weijing followed Mr. Wattel's gaze towards the wall, where three dark wooden picture frames hung on it.

It's not the blonde and blue-eyed Germanic girl, Professor Wattel's regret and white moonlight or something.

Standard landscape painting.

At noon.

As soon as he walked into the suite in this office, he noticed the paintings hanging on the walls.

It's hard not to notice such an eye-catching work.

Unlike the watercolors and drawings hanging in the office outside, all the large and small frames in the studio are watercolors on the same theme.

The content is the photograph of Berlin's Museum Island that I visited at the workbench.

This theme is constantly repeated on each frame, and the most strange thing about Gu Weijing is that compared to other large and small museum island landscape paintings.

The only three paintings that Professor Wattle hung most solemnly on the wall facing the workbench were the only three paintings.

In these three paintings, the paint in the details seems to have faded, too light.

No

Looking at the details of the overlay of the scenery, it should be said that these three paintings are actually not finished.

For some reason, the engraving, which lacked the last few layers of detail, was included in the frame by Watel.

"I take the liberty of asking, sir, these three works are not finished, right?"

"Yes, yes, this is a ticket to the Artist's Hall, but unfortunately, it took me ten years and I still can't afford to get to that glittering door."

(End of chapter)