Wrong.

This weekend opened up in the wrong way.

In the past, at this point in time.

Old man Gu should be in the park square of Maha Bandullah in the center of Yangon, huddled in the evergreen shade of the pavilions, leisurely peeking at the little sparrow in the sky through the viewfinder of the camera.

In addition to painting, Gu Tongxiang has three hobbies in his life, driving, playing chess, and taking pictures.

As a young man, he fiddled with film cameras for a while.

I feel that "popping" and pressing the shutter can directly complete the creation of a work, which is much simpler, faster and less trouble-free than painting.

Anyway, the customers who patronize the calligraphy and painting shops are mainly buying landscape paintings.

I bought two photography magazines, calculated the input-output ratio, and knocked on the small abacus.

Gu Tongxiang felt that this business was completely done.

At one point, she set up a darkroom in the courtyard for washing photos, and set up a whole wall of photography in the store, and she fantasized about the day when she would become a Magnum photographer (note, the world's most influential photography agency, equivalent to Gagosian in the photography world, whose masters mainly focus on third world countries).

A photo of "The Afghan Girl" by the master is famous all over the world, why can't he have a whole "Old Man of the Yangon River"!

Then the skinny reality was a big mouth, and then a big mouth slapped Gu Tongxiang's old face.

soon

Gu Tongxiang cruelly realized that photography is also a broad and profound special field.

It's not just a pat on the back.

What's more, their small calligraphy and painting shop and large high-end comprehensive art gallery seem to be "art industry" on the outside, and the core is not a thing at all.

Customers who will come to his store may be willing to buy a fresh picture of a Chinese painting or oil painting.

But usually you don't want to spend ten dollars to go back with a photo.

To leave a photo of the scenery, people pay 50 cents to buy a postcard at the grocery store.

The works sold are not as expensive as film consumables.

There is no such customer soil at all.

So I gave up.

Twenty years after his dream of becoming a great master of landscape photography was trampled and shattered by the brazen price war of the small vendors selling postcards by the riverbank.

The gray-haired old man Gu picked up the camera again, this time without the intention of making money.

Simply joined the army of retired old mages.

The municipal park is a fun house for the elderly.

The aunt who dances the square dance, the uncle who sings, the old man who plays mahjong, and the old mage who engages in photography, integrates dance, music, intellectual confrontation and artistic creation.

In a sense, the Academy of Athens is nothing more than that!

Especially the old photographer is a strange group, from the rich old man who carries a mortar-style telephoto lens, the rich old man who can change an expensive car to a Leica and Hasselblad, and the cost-effective player like Gu Tongxiang who spent 200 dollars to collect a second-hand old Canon 5D2 and is ready to attack, everyone huddles side by side under the same shade, peeking at the same little sparrow with the camera.

There is no comparison, only the sound of discussing the aperture and exposure in a low voice.

In the sound of the clattering shutter, a kind of brotherhood that crosses classes sprouts in the midst of it.

Recently, the old man Gu who has been in a hurry in the spring breeze is a star in the municipal park.

After all, he was born in a professional color business, and in the past, Old Man Gu was cheeky and called himself an artist, and he blushed a little, but now he has signed with Mars Gallery, who dares to say that he is not an artist, who is he in a hurry.

Gu Tongxiang almost wore the whole vest printed with "I, the artist, awesome" and dangled around his body.

There is also a "youthful" eldest sister in her fifties, who took the initiative to act as a model, asked him to take pictures, and asked him to compose and color matching. Even the two old men who used to make Gu Tongxiang jealous of their wedding photography background did not have his beauty.

Every week, in the group activity of the photography WeChat group, there will be aunts waiting in the park.

Gu Tongxiang drove his washed oily and slippery Lexus to a stop, put a pure white towel on his shoulder, and walked out of the car with the strong music of "Shanghai Beach" "Running Waves, Waves ......", and listened to the "Yingying Yanyan" who came up, "Teacher Gu, how to adjust this ISO", "Teacher Gu, the shutter speed is ......".

Gu Tongxiang was so cool that even the bald hair on his forehead had to come out again.

But today.

Gu Tongxiang was grabbing the camera, wiping the minoxidil hair growth essence, and was about to go out in style, but he was caught by his grandson Gu Weijing.

The grandson took a brush and paint, held the rice paper, and called out to him.

He said that he wanted to paint with his grandfather for a while.

Although Gu Tongxiang really wanted to shoot birds.

But in my heart, I still feel that compared to Aunt Sun, who sells steamed buns, her grandson is more precious.

Again.

After thinking about it, after the Spring Festival recently, it has been a long time, and I haven't taken a whole period of time seriously to point out my own paintings for the scriptures.

Although Gu Weijing has recently pondered the mural pigments, he was appreciated by Cao Lao. It is also a study of new style painting, a study of the doorway, and a participation in art exhibitions and signing galleries.

The whole person showed a situation that made Gu Tongxiang extremely gratified, and he was about to soar into the sky.

Presumably, painting should not only focus on aura.

There is still some precipitation of experience, and he, a parent, needs to check it.

Gu Tongxiang has already designed it, and when his grandson finished asking his own questions, he took a slight sip of the tea handed by Gu Weijing, looked up at the sky at 45 degrees, and said in a deep education: "The important thing to be a painter is to be down-to-earth, not only to be able to look up at the starry sky, but also to be able to be down-to-earth, although you have made the most obvious progress, but your grandfather is your grandfather after all, and there are things for you to learn." ”

And then......

Gu Tongxiang was tragically educated by his grandson for a morning.

Damn it!

Gu Tongxiang's ideal grandfather and grandson are harmonious, where is his happy painting journey?

Where did the grandson who used to look at his grandson with a sigh of waiting to be fed and full of curiosity?

The most important thing is - why did I have a brain pump, gentlemen, to turn down the opportunity to walk under the sculptures in the square with Sister Sun to explore photography, and be trained by my grandson!

It's only been a few months.

The old man Gu, who was suddenly a stranger to this world, didn't know him.

The old man hinted to his grandson several times with words, "Grandpa doesn't want to paint anymore, grandpa wants to go out to play", but the other party said-

"Photography, what kind of photography to play! Have you done your job well? ”

"When should you do something, if you draw well, I won't stop you, if you can't draw, just practice!"

"You're in a hurry, I'm still in a hurry, Miss Sakai asked me out in the afternoon! Not in a hurry than you! ”

and many other reasons, to ruthlessly suppress back.

Old Man Gu once again faced him and sighed, and the "Camellia Cloud Bird Picture" that he had drawn seriously was pointed out by Gu Weijing after more than fifteen mistakes were pointed out.

Old man Gu was really a little overwhelmed.

It's so shameless.

Where to put his old face!

I know that this is his Gu Tongxiang's meticulous work, but if I don't know, it sounds like Awang scribbled with his ass!

Your grandfather and I are signed painters of Mars Gallery, okay?

"The more basic the place, the more difficult it is to draw well. Also printers, do you say that about your grandfather? Gu Tongxiang looked constipated on his face, and put on the score of the feudal family.

"Heh, even if it's a printer, it's the printer you grew up with. Besides, I don't understand the truth that it is easy to know and difficult to form. I'm not Lin Tao, and I'm not Professor Lin, but I'm painting a decorative look! Don't talk like this old-fashioned look. ”

Gu Tongxiang knew very well in his heart that he was a little unreasonable.

There is no problem with the mistakes that Gu Weijing pointed out.

It can be called a whip into the inside, every sentence is a slap and a hoop of blood, and it is a rare golden and jade good words.

In the past few hours this morning, Gu Tongxiang sighed in his heart more than once - heh, our grandson has been taking online classes with Professor Lin Tao for a month or two, and the accumulation of art theory is slowly rising.

This scolding is really high-minded, and it's fucking vicious!

It's really strong~

Gu Tongxiang was even scolded in his heart.

If it were any other person, Old Man Gu would not have this attitude.

If it was a figure of Lin Tao's generation in front of the table now.

The old man listened to it fascinated and didn't say anything.

I had to serve the tea and water with a respectful face, "Teacher, you work hard, if you scold me and hurt my throat, it's not worth it." Let's drink saliva to moisten our throats, and then we'll scold for two more hours! ”

But on the other side is his own grandson...... In this case, Gu Tongxiang will inevitably have to double standard?

He didn't really blame his grandson, either.

This is Old Man Gu's cunning strategy of advancing and retreating.

"Look, it's a scripture. It's good to be able to see the problem, and grandpa wants to praise you for your vision. Gu Tongxiang changed his tone and said meaningfully, "But what about grandpa, I also have to criticize you a little." Before becoming a teacher for others, you have to think about whether you can do it, grandpa, I have taught you this truth since I was a child, and I have always demanded this from myself. ”

Comrade Lao Gu raised his neck and prepared to slip away.

"When you come, do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Second, taking the standards that you can't do and asking others is not convincing enough. ”

The simpler the drawing, the more difficult it is, and there is truth to this saying.

It is not difficult to use very intense color collisions and very large pieces of chaotic and messy lines to grab the audience's attention in an instant.

But this visual style, how easy it is to attract the eye of the art audience.

They lose interest as quickly as they do.

Van Doorne's illustrations follow this creative style, which is why Anna criticizes them as "the pale cry of a madman." ”

The mildest brushstrokes, the most elegant color matching, and the most natural stretching lines can firmly grasp the audience's attention and make them feel the long charm.

It's much more difficult.

Just like the dishes of the top Chinese chefs in the past, it has never been sugar abalone, but the "boiling water cabbage" that looks plain, who can make a fresh and elegant, fragrant and mellow taste, and skillfully convey the sweetness of chicken and the thickness of duck soup on the unpretentious medium of cabbage.

The outline line is flat, which is the "boiling cabbage" of the top school examination in Chinese painting.

It's almost the easiest way to draw, first sketch the outline with lines, and then paint it all over with a paint brush, which is essentially no different from the crayon coloring game played by children in the nursery.

It is the most commonly used painting method for every art student who has just started to get in touch with Chinese painting.

It is also the most advanced way to draw.

Even the "Buddha Protector Map" completed by Cao Lao on the Shwedagon Pagoda project is beyond the exquisite and complex brushwork of the exquisite and exquisite finishing touches of the Dagon Pagoda project.

Larger areas of coloring still can't escape the words "outlining and flattening".

Even if it is the Impressionism that swept Europe, it is unique and breaks the stereotyped color presentation, although honestly speaking, it is more influenced by Japanese painting and Fautus painting, but in fact, in its bones, it is still "outlined and flat".

It is the stabbing in swordsmanship, the horizontal and vertical in the strokes, the simplest, the easiest to learn, and the most direct to the source.

The color three-dimensionality and light and shadow changes of oil painting can be mixed on the color palette with each stroke, showing the shadow change of the three-dimensional space.

Watercolor can also be overcolored, and multiple layers of color show the refraction of sunlight.

But traditional Chinese painting has only one layer of paint.

In the flat painting method, there will be no re-mixing within each color block.

If you want to achieve the "contrast between decorative and bright" in Gu Weijing's mouth, you can only rely on the painter's skills.

When Gu Weijing taught him the tricks of painting new style paintings last month.

Gu Tongxiang was faintly aware of it, whether it was Chinese painting techniques or oil painting techniques.

He's no longer under himself.

Those who can learn understand the ideas of Lang Shining's techniques, and understand his problems and mistakes, rely on the precipitation of Huigen, aura and art theory.

When you lift the pen, you can draw a new level of "outlining and flattening".

It's a different concept.

Everything else is easy to say, this kind of article that is not clever in basic skills, Gu Tongxiang is still not optimistic.

Tong Suo said without deception that when Gu Weijing's father was still in his mother's womb, he had already sold paintings on the street, and he had practiced for most of his life, isn't it still like this.

"Iron also needs to be hard. It's not a theory taught by Professor Lin Tao that can be said by moving it over and applying it to the past. Grandson, teach you to be well-behaved, if this situation is put on others, it is easy for you to not get off the stage. But after all, we are grandfathers, grandpa, I am a generous person, so I won't worry about you. ”

Gu Tongxiang said with a smile.

"You can't draw it, and I can't draw it, but let's make progress together. When you have the level of Professor Lin, I will teach your grandfather again, and I promise that you will not put a fart. On the contrary, if grandpa I figured out the doorway. There's nothing to say, and naturally they will teach you, people should watch more and learn more. ”

Old Man Gu stood up, ready to rescue his beloved Chadun, and then went out with his camera.

Maybe Aunt Sun's activities aren't over yet.

"It's better for you to stay here today and study, your grandfather and me, go first-"

"Stop."

(End of chapter)