The fourth cycle of "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss Jr. was playing on the speaker next to the sofa. I don't know when it started raining outside the window, and the raindrops fell on the marble steps in front of Gu's calligraphy and painting shop. , making a rustling sound.
Gu Weijing stared blankly at the drawing in his hand, as if he didn't realize it.
If you are a long-distance runner, you must have this experience.
At a certain moment while running, fatigue suddenly disappears, dopamine is secreted rapidly, your breathing and heartbeat accelerate, the world becomes quiet, and a steady stream of power surges into your body from the ground.
You are obviously exhausted, but you are also ecstatic, like an angel giving you wings.
Kinematics generals call this situation an exhaustive cycle, and Japanese cartoonists who love middle school like to call the once-in-a-lifetime "god's realm" in the passionate sports comics of shounen ju. , "zero" status, etc.
This is how Gu Weijing felt.
In the past thirty minutes, he almost never stopped writing. The sawdust scraped off by the pencil sharpener had piled up in a small puddle, and many of them were scattered randomly on the wooden floor. , his fingers and wrists became sore and numb due to continuous high-intensity work.
Looking at the classics but ignoring them.
The moment the pencil fell on the watercolor paper and drew the first line segment, he felt what professionalism meant.
I recently completed an oil painting also based on a classic Mercedes-Benz car model.
If what he painted originally was "copying", then what he paints now is "accurate".
If his talent originally allowed him to draw "images", then his professional level skills now allow him to draw "realities".
This gap was both despairing and ecstatic.
Parallel lining method, stacked color method, flat painting, occasionally use a spray bottle on one side to spray a little water mist on the water-soluble pencil coloring on the drawing paper to neutralize the color halo. Various techniques are used in It was like a conditioned reflex that appeared alternately in his mind. He picked it up at his fingertips and without thinking, various interlaced light and shadow changes appeared on the watercolor paper.
Every line segment and handwriting seems to have been measured with an industrial laser printer. The straight lines drawn by hand have almost no millimeter-level error.
The unique graininess of colored pencils is like old-fashioned film filled with time, vividly showing every aspect of this car model, even the unique moist feeling of the resin is brought into full play.
The skill ended quietly when Gu Weijing made the last stroke, and now he is just savoring the aftertaste.
Sketch v3 Semi-Professional 3511000 On the panel in front of me, my sketching experience has increased by more than a hundred points, and several other skills have also improved from a dozen to dozens of points.
Just half an hour with the basic blessing of the master's painting is almost equivalent to his hard work in the past year.
Gu Weijing lifted upHe shook his head, put down the painting, and laughed silently.
If you must find an example to describe his current mood.
That was probably Guo Jing, who had spent more than ten years practicing the second-rate martial arts Yue Women's Seven Swords in the Mongolian desert. After coming to the Central Plains, he saw the great master Hong Qigong perform the Eighteen Dragons for the first time after coming to the Central Plains. The shock of the palm.
It turns out that the world is so vast.
"Not bad."
Mr. Gu stood on the window outside the door, looking at the scene in the gallery, and nodded secretly.
The old man’s real name is Gu Tongxiang. He was born in the 1940s. He has been using paintbrushes all his life and is somewhat famous in Myanmar.
He has two sons, but the eldest son has limited talent. Gu Weijing’s father did not inherit any artistic talents. He studied finance in college and now works in a small but long-standing private company in France. Work in a bank.
The most promising person in the family to take over the profession of painter is the talented grandson Gu Weijing.
Not long after the Spring Festival, he was visiting an old client. After receiving a text message from his grandson informing him that a gangster was coming to his door, he was worried and immediately drove back.
He returned to Gu's calligraphy and painting shop more than ten minutes ago. He saw that the door was closed tightly with a sign saying it was temporarily closed. No one answered his cell phone calls. Worried about something happening at home, he lay down in the book gallery. Looking in from the window, I saw Gu Weijing holding a colored pencil.
Gu Tongxiang felt a little relieved when he saw Gu Weijing concentrating on painting inside.
“There is calmness.”
The old man has been ups and downs in the art market for half his life. He has seen all kinds of swindlers who use the name of an artist to deceive the world, and he has also seen countless talented people. Young people with extraordinary talents have spent half their lives in poverty and no one cares about them. In the end, they regretfully bid farewell to this industry and find another way out.
The painter industry is very cruel.
They have to fight for talent, hard work, skills, background, teachers, schools, and resources. You may become famous overnight because of the appreciation of noble people, or you may be the reincarnation of Van Gogh, but you will be in a miserable state.
After all, even if Van Gogh is real, the world only thought he was a madman, right?
Look at those people whose daily job is to travel on private planes. Or vacation on a million-dollar private island in the Pacific called Cai Feng. Artists who only paint one painting in half a year, and each painting costs tens of millions of dollars at Christie's Autumn auction, are enjoying great success and freedom.
But there are a few such people
Under their feet are thousands of bones that have fallen on this road called dreams. Those 90% of low-level painters may not even be able to afford a better canvas. They are the true portrayal of this profession.
Many young people who have studied art and painting for many years only see the benefits of this industry and cannot bear the hardships of this industry. In the end, they changed careers when they were in college, including cover drawing for fashion magazines, fashion design, art color grading in the later stages of film and television, and even studying civil engineering
These are all very good, but after all, they are still drifting away from the profession of painter.
Gu Tongxiang has been in the industry for so many years. It’s not that he loves his grandson’s house, but that few young people under the age of 18 still have such composure after being lured by the underworld for profit. He picked up the brush and transcended the calmness outside the object.
Having a better impression of young people who work hard is something that almost all older painters have in common.
"Yeah, I'm drawing a model again."
Old man Gu Tongxiang frowned again. He knew that his grandson had a good grasp of spatial structure and liked to hand in homework or create in his spare time. Draw some mechanical models or something.
Through the glass, the old man could not clearly see what Gu Weijing was painting now, but he could clearly see the antique car model on the coffee table and the oil painting job being dried naturally in the corner.
“I have told him so many times, but without studying painting skills and improving the stability of brushstrokes day after day, there is no future just relying on talent.”
Old man I felt a little angry.
To be honest, he has always felt that his grandson's talent for space reproduction may not be a good thing for a painter.
Not to mention Brother Hao and others who came to the door.
Painting itself also pays attention to genre.
Whether you want to admit it or not, painting is outclassed by modern photography in terms of its ability to record reality.
Sometimes drawing too much likeness is also a shortcoming. It is not as realistic as photography, and it lacks the agility of a painter. It completely combines the shortcomings of two art forms.
If you draw a good photo and paint a statue of God in a medieval church, you might be able to use it as a miracle to be canonized or something, but in the modern art market, there is only one way out.
Those top galleries and oil painting dealers are pursuing the next Manet, the next Cézanne, and the next Picasso, not the second Picasso.
They will spend crazy money on promising young people, but they will not spend a penny on poor imitators.
Although Gu Weijing has an outstanding talent for grasping space, his basic painting skills can only be regarded as good among his peers.
For young painters, only solid basic skills are the foundation for establishing a school in the future.
With only one practice, there is no room for opportunism.
“It’s time to have a good talk with him. At his age, it’s time to practice basic skills in a down-to-earth manner. He must learn lines, structures, and colors honestly. He must not just waste time on his talent. ."
When the old man saw that Gu Weijing had finally put down his painting brush, he knocked hard on the window.
Gu Weijing heard the sound of knocking on the window behind him. He turned around and saw his grandfather's somewhat unhappy face. Only then did he realize that there were several missed calls on his cell phone.
He opened the door.
"Drawing, colored pencil drawing"
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Gu Tongxiang walked into the calligraphy and painting shop without mentioning a word about the bald man coming to the door, but asked straight to the point.
"Yes, the feeling is coming up"
Gu Weijing was about to say something when he was interrupted by his grandfather.
“This is a good thing. Colored pencil drawings are works that can test a person’s proficiency in brushstrokes. However, you should try your best to focus on the basic skills of drawing itself and work hard. Just drawing like it is not enough "Look at your lines."
Gu Tongxiang picked up the painting on the table.
For an old painter like him, it is not difficult to find faults in a painting, especially the works of young painters like Gu Weijing who have not yet attended a serious art academy.
There are thousands of handwritings in a painting. Sometimes you may be careless. Maybe the line segments are not processed cleanly, maybe the color is too thick, or maybe the light and shade are not clear.
Even if it is an experienced old painter, it is impossible for a work that took such a short time to be perfect and without errors.
He lowered his head and glanced at the painting, ready to pick out some imperfections.
Then the second look.
However, it is the third eye.
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