Gu Weijing sat on the bed.
The smell of sandalwood and sweet-scented osmanthus lingering on the tip of his nose lingered on the girl's body after taking a bath, and he somewhat forgot the purpose of his visit. It was Mona who spoke first.
"Gu Weijing, come and take a look at my newly drawn holiday homework. I am going to put it in my portfolio and use it to apply for college this year."
Mona Carefully he moved his easel from the balcony.
Their oil painting teacher requires everyone to complete an oil painting assignment during the vacation, regardless of subject matter.
Gu Weijing’s model painting of a Mercedes-Benz car was already finished when the panel was obtained. Miss Mona's oil painting is now almost complete and is being finished.
Judging from Gu Weijing’s current perspective, one or two layers of paint would make it a very good work.
What she painted was a self-portrait.
In the oil painting, she is wearing a blue skirt with fluttering skirt corners, and behind her are the flowing Irrawaddy River and the setting sun.
Mona stood on the drawing board, pointed to the picture frame next to her, and asked playfully, "Am I beautiful?"
Gu Weijing looked at the oil painting drawing board and thought for a moment. .
Berryman's human anatomy can be applied not only to sketches, but also to oil paintings. Even if his experience in oil painting techniques is not very high, he can still give some guidance to Mona.
"Clothes."
Gu Weijing said.
"What do you mean?"
"The figure is wearing clothes."
"So otherwise"
Mona crossed her arms , with an unhappy tone, "I can't draw a self-portrait without clothes during my vacation homework. Am I crazy or are you crazy?"
"You are still flirting with me"
Mona tilted her head and looked at Gu Weijing, with playful eyes, "I want to ask Gu Lin after school starts, what did you do during the holidays? I haven't seen you for a month, and you learn so quickly."
"No, no, no, you misunderstood me. "
Gu Weijing realized what the other party meant, his ears turned red immediately, and he waved his hands, "I didn't mean anything else, I was just talking about the oil painting."
"Well, I want to see what you think of my portrait painting. I'd like to remind you in advance that because I have to apply to the Academy of Fine Arts this year, my father hired a private tutor for me during the winter vacation. This painting was painted under his guidance. If you can't tell me why?"
Mona found it a bit amusing to see Gu Weijing fussing around.
She knows that the other person is an introvert, and she wants to tease the other person.
"I want you to look good."
She licked the corners of her mouth and made a vicious face.
Miss Mona doesn’t look vicious, but rather playful.
"Why do I say that the problem with the character is the clothes?"
Gu Weijing tapped his fingers on the half-finished oil painting, and his fingertips followed the curves of Mona's figure.Volt.
The girl loves to dress up. She obviously put a lot of thought into the blue dress in the painting.
The silver buttons, the brown-red scarf, and the flowing texture of the skirt are all very good.
“I think when drawing portraits, no matter what the subject matter is, from comics to oil paintings or gouache or prints, the core focus is always only one character.”
“ Your clothes are very beautiful, so beautiful that they overshadow the others.”
“When painting portraits of clothed figures, you should pay special attention to the most important point when it is not portraits of special figures such as kings and generals. , that is, clothing is just a covering for the body, so all its folds are determined by the muscle curves of the body inside it."
Gu Weijing recalled the anatomy experience in his mind. Explained very patiently.
“When carefully observing and drawing clothes, it is necessary to express the structure of the body inside it. Especially when drawing a girl wearing a skirt, the torso and limbs of the character should be as close as possible. Show something."
"Do you remember the oil painting of my daughter Georgia?"
Gu Weijing gave an example of how they studied with a professor in an oil painting appreciation class.
My Daughter Georgia is a classic portrait created by the painter Naomi Alexander for his daughter, which is now collected in the Ludwig Museum of Art in Germany.
In class, the teacher once focused on the brushes and techniques used in this painting.
At that time, Gu Weijing couldn’t understand many of them.
Now that he had acquired Berryman's anatomical skills and the portraits in the oil painting in his memory, many things made sense at once.
"What happened to the painting of my daughter Georgia"
Mona asked.
"In that painting, the clothes are processed into a simple and relatively elongated form, thereby guiding the viewer's eyes upward to the character's face."
"In Before this, the painter had already shown enough muscle lines and rich expressions on the face to attract the audience's attention."
Gu Weijing simply used his fingers to express the wrinkles in the painting.
“The outline and folds of the blue skirt in the picture have the biggest role of making the audience feel that it is very comfortable. At the same time, it also outlines the outline of the character’s waist, hips and knees.”
p>"Do you remember what the teacher said? In order to pursue a smooth enough touch of clothes and reduce the audience's distraction in places other than the lines of the human figure, the painting itself was even painted on a wooden board instead of the common On canvas."
Gu Weijing also had doubts about Naomi Alexander's choice of substrate. Wooden boards are neither convenient for transportation nor storage for ordinary canvases, and the adhesion of oil paints is not good. .
Now that I think about it, everything is to highlight the characters.
"This painting you drewNot only are the clothes in the portrait too brightly colored. And there are too many decorations. Various skirt laces and buttons make the clothes seem to have a life of their own when painted with a brush. This is not a good thing."
Gu Weijing's finger pointed at the girl's face in the oil painting frame. Limbs and head and neck.
"You see, this will cause the head, hands, and feet that are not covered by clothes to be naturally connected to the body, like a doll made of building blocks. "
He finally looked at Mona and concluded.
"It sounds like that. "
Mona sniffed the tip of her nose.
She smiled and said, "If my tutor hadn't checked the line drawing and thought there was nothing wrong with this painting, I would have been fooled by you. Lived. ”
As the main work of her portfolio, before Mona painted this oil painting, her father hired a senior as a private tutor for her to give her guidance on line drawing.
The other party is a student from the Royal College of Art in England. To be admitted to the Royal College of Art, a long-established art school ranked among the top 30 in the world, his painting skills must be excellent.
Since the seniors think this. There was nothing wrong with the painting, so Mona didn't take Gu Weijing's words to heart.
She was not serious at first, she was just teasing Gu Weijing.
"That senior of yours"
Gu Weijing opened his mouth and wanted to say something else.
"Okay, okay, it's for your sake. , even if you pass the test. You are only seventeen years old. Even if you say something wrong, I will not laugh at you. "
"Teach you to be good. When a girl asks you if your portrait looks good in the future, they are not asking for your opinion, but just asking for your praise. "
Mona waved her hand and moved the easel back to the balcony.
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