"Of course that's good." Gu Weijing nodded.
Uncle Sakai is very thoughtful.
He is just a middle school student. Even if he is a student in an ordinary art academy, he would be confused when he sees the long list of reviewer names, let alone distinguish the pros and cons of these reviewers.
I can only fill in the recommended reviewer options casually like buying a lottery ticket, and pray that I will meet a kinder reviewer.
Then again,
Asian Art, a top liberal arts journal, is not for ordinary art school students or even ordinary professors to submit articles.
"Well, the only disadvantage is that Asian Art is a semi-annual publication, and the review time is relatively long. There are only two issues each year. We may have to wait for a while for the page to be published. Just don't be in a hurry to sell your paintings."
A top journal like Asian Art is quite aloof and prefers to be short of manuscripts.
Each article has been carefully polished, which is in sharp contrast to those water-based magazines that can’t wait to come back to the last issue every week.
However, Uncle Sakai judged that it would not be difficult for them to successfully pass the manuscript. It is already close to March. If it is quick, it will be scheduled for the end of April, and it will be published in more than a month.
This is not a long time at all for a top journal article.
The reputation of Asian art is also worth her wait.
The greater advantage of Taylor Art Journal is that it is a European journal. If it wants to develop in Europe in the future, its reputation will not be much lower than that of Asian Art.
At the same time, the publication cycle is much shorter.
In addition, there is still a gap in academic status with the old magazine Asian Art.
Sakai Katsuko was worried that Gu Weijing might be impatient to publish the paper so that Carroll's oil painting could be realized quickly.
This will be a lot of money.
From the moment Shengzi was born, unless something unexpected happened in this life, he would not have to worry about money at all, and he would not care much about money.
But she cannot judge others by herself.
The vast majority of ordinary people in the world would definitely like to have their papers make the paintings famous as soon as possible, and then sell the paintings.
"No, I won't be in a hurry to sell this painting for the time being. I haven't fully grasped the essence of Carroll's painting, and I'm almost there." Gu Weijing shook his head.
He has not yet fully received the system rewards. If he sells the painting, his copying progress will be greatly regressed.
"You have already painted very well without grasping the essence."
Katsuko Sakai thought for a while and suggested, "This kind of dark background painting by famous Impressionists, the picture It is difficult to grasp the essence of it. However, I have a little trick for color mixing. I wonder if it sounds helpful."
"Hmm" Gu Weijing was curious.
“You can try using a transparent acrylic board as a color mixing tool. Compare the background color on the canvas and mix the paint. This is when I first learned painting, my father was influenced by my mother’s choice of cosmetics. inspired byTeach me the methods of enlightenment. It is usually used when trying to figure out the skin color of a painted character or the complex changing tones. It is very useful. "
"No, I will demonstrate it to you. ”
There were no painting tools in the study room. As Sakai Katsuko spoke, she took out a transparent plastic ruler from her stationery bag.
She unbuttoned the sleeves of her school uniform. , folding up the material on the wrists of the shirt, revealing half of her fair arms.
Katsuko’s skin is very white, not as white as snow, like medicine in the park in April or May. Using lilac flowers, the white and pink colors came out, making it very girly.
She put the transparent ruler on her forearm and took out three short tubes of lipstick from her pocket. Passed it to Gu Weijing.
“This is Chanel’s maple syrup, coral and cream cherry, which my mother gave me this morning. "
"What?" Gu Weijing used a confused expression to express that he didn't understand what Miss Shengzi was talking about.
"It's the color name of the lipstick. Just use it as a paintbrush, just paint it on the ruler and see," Sakai Katsuko suggested.
Gu Weijing took off the cap on the lipstick and twisted out the three almost identical lipstick heads. .
He studies art, so he is not like many boys who think that all lipsticks are the same, but he can still see the subtle differences in the colors of these three lipsticks.
The ability of these luxury brands to name is confusing, but the color is basically red, not too different.
Gu Weijing used lipstick to lay a ruler flat on Shengzi’s forearm. Applying it lightly, you immediately understood the meaning of Sakai Katsuko asking him to prepare a transparent acrylic plate for color matching.
The girl’s arm seemed to be painted with a pink-white background and an extremely fine texture. Oil canvas.
The lipstick is the brush and the ruler is the palette. The three lipsticks, which were originally only slightly different in color, suddenly showed different expressions against the backdrop of Miss Sakai's smooth skin.
The color of coral is cooler, the color of cream cherry is warmer, and the color of maple syrup is somewhere in between.
“Well, this is the equivalent of a piece that can be like a chameleon. It's a great idea to always have a special palette that brings out the relationship between the background of the painting and the paint. ”
Gu Weijing figured out the trick with just a few clicks.
When he painted, he didn’t have high requirements for the palette, and he used the one he bought online on Amazon for five dollars a piece. The most basic three-wood palette.
But Gu Weijing has heard that some great painters like to customize their own palettes.
Light colors, dark colors, etc. They even distinguish different colors to number their palettes.
David Fuzzelli, a romantic painter who was once selected for the French official salon, is a representative figure of this kind of artist who has high requirements for painting tools. < /p>
David once ordered 92 palettes of different colors from a Paris painting dealer for 600 francs. The color of each palette ranges from light to dark, from pure white to deep black.
ThisThis is not because of the painter's special hobby or obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The advantage is that painters can choose different palettes based on different painting backgrounds and complex background character texture colors.
Beginners use white palettes the most because the canvas is white and it is easiest to bring out the true colors of the paints on them.
The background color of oil paintings is not always white.
An oil painting with a black background, the paint you mix on the white palette, and the colors that appear on the dark background after you put pen to paper.
Because the contrast between light and dark in the picture is different, the feelings are also slightly different.
Based on this principle, if conditions permit.
For screen colors and rainy days, you can use a gray-brown color palette. When painting a jungle, you can use an emerald color palette, and when the sun sets, you can use a golden-red color palette as the base color to match the paints, making it easier to find the color you want.
Uncle Sakai’s idea is a simplified and advanced version of David.
Plastic palettes do not feel as good as wooden palettes with pens.
But this kind of transparent acrylic plate can directly put the paint you have mixed on the background color you just finished or even the original painting for comparison.
It will be easier to depict the fine texture brightness and landscape color according to the original paint tone.
"By the way, of these three colors, Gu Weijing, which one do you prefer?"
Sakai Katsuko picked up the ruler on her arm and glanced at the boy quietly. He asked pretending to be casual.
"I don't know lipstick, let alone makeup."
Gu Weijing didn't dare to give blind advice.
Before Miss Sakai, his only close friend of the opposite sex was Mona.
Mona likes to put on makeup many times.
She knows that Gu Weijing doesn’t know much about these things and his family conditions are average. So Mona never asked herself to buy cosmetics for her as birthday gifts or anything like that.
Even the prices of the bottles, jars, lipsticks and eye creams in the bedroom were not disclosed to Gu Weijing, probably because they were worried about putting psychological pressure on Gu Weijing.
In this regard, Miss Mona has always taken good care of Gu Weijing.
However, she usually doesn’t consult her little boyfriend’s aesthetic opinions, and paints however she likes.
Gu Weijing only needs to say good-looking, really good-looking and very good-looking when we go out to play together.
"It doesn't matter, I actually don't understand much. These three lipsticks were given to me by my mother, so I want to ask you boys for your opinions."
I heard that I My precious daughter, who has always been bare-faced, finally got the idea to put on makeup to look more beautiful.
Mrs. Sakai stared at Katsuko Sakai for a moment in a happy, yet complicated mood in the morning, then selected three lipsticks from the drawer and threw them to her daughter.
WineAfter Jing Shengzi came to the study room early, she hesitated for a long time in front of the small dressing mirror, not sure which lipstick color suited her better.
"I would like to give you a suggestion, just think of it as painting, and use my body suit as a canvas. If you want to paint on me, what color do you think will look better as a match?" Sakai Katsuko lowered her head and straightened her hair.
Skin as a drawing board
Gu Weijing’s mind suddenly came to a classic passage from Liu Rushi, a biographical film about Eastern Xia that he had watched more than ten years ago and was highly rated on Douban. .
Liu Ru was one of the eight famous Qinhuai beauties in the Ming Dynasty. She was famous for her character and character. As an oiran in a brothel, she was able to be married to the then literary master Qian Qianyi as a real wife.
On their wedding night, the talented Liu Da took off her wedding dress and asked Qian Qianyi to draw a flower on her smooth back with a brush.
The gauze is low, the skin is as white as jade, and the paintings are ink
In the late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wenzong of the Qian Dynasty later lost his reputation in history, and his reputation was as bad as that of Hong Chengchou, the number one traitor of the same period. thing.
At least from an artistic point of view, this shot is quite beautiful.
Gu Weijing glanced at Miss Shengzi's slender waist, shook his head hard, slapped himself twice in his heart, and secretly put aside the thought in his heart that was so fragrant that it would make people nosebleed.
He knew that Shengzi could not be telling dirty jokes or teasing him at this time.
Miss Sakai is just giving an example.
Moreover, there is a long tradition in Japan of painting on naked skin. Historically, there has been a custom of tattooing in coastal areas of Japan. Women like to use the slurry of natural herbal plants to draw brocade, flower and other patterns on their backs and arms.
Later, inspired by the Confucian thought of the Eastern Xia cultural circle that "the hair and skin of the body are given to parents and should not be damaged", men began to use painting instead of tattooing.
This custom continued until the Edo and even the Meiji period. In the early ukiyo-e paintings that are circulated today, there are a large number of samurai and geisha with tattoos or paintings on their bodies.
The content drawn has changed from simple flowers, birds, fish and insects to local myths and classic story images in local dialects such as The Tale of the Heike.
In modern times, the British Academy of Art has conducted a survey. The acceptance of body painting in Japan ranks only behind a few European countries such as New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Australia, and ranks behind Asian countries whose overall culture tends to be conservative. First.
"Cherry Cream Bar"
Gu Weijing looked at the three lipsticks on the ruler, looking at the nose and heart, "This color is softer, suitable for you, Miss Shengzi." Warm pink skin color."
"Cherry cream."
"Yes, and the name sounds very cute." Gu Weijing scratched his hair.
Sakai Katsuko took out the lipstick with the words cherry and crea written in small gold letters on it, and gently applied it to her lips.There is a circle of dots between the lines.
"Uh-huh"
She pursed her lips, showed the color of her lips to the boy, and made a playful nasal sound to ask for his opinion. She looked very cute.
Gu Weijing was slightly dazed.
"Does it look good?"
"It looks good."
Miss Sakai is really a good girl, cool and cute, and she has a common language.
Even if it has nothing to do with emotions,
It is very pleasant to work with such a young lady. Even if she is just sitting quietly next to her, she is as pleasing to the eye as a beautiful big doll.
"By the way, speaking of painting, after the thesis is completed, Shengzi, you will continue to paint in the school's public studio." Gu Weijing issued an invitation, "You are also copying and learning from Ms. Carroll's old paintings." Church, right? Can I invite you to one of my outdoor studios?"
After copying more than a dozen pictures of old churches, Gu Weijing could already grasp the similarity in brushwork. Very good level.
However, in the evaluation of the system panel, the similarity between his current copy work and the original Old Church is stuck at around 35.
The highest one was only 376.
The baseline for obtaining intermediate treasure chests given by the system is 50%, and the last dozen or so percentage points are like an insurmountable chasm.
Gu Weijing could vaguely feel that fifty percent was a threshold.
Although he still has room to improve in terms of color mixing and pigment control.
But if you really want to achieve a similarity level of more than 50, what you pursue is no longer just the matching of paints and the meticulousness of the brushwork, but a deeper feeling, an overall temperament of the painting.
To explain it in more popular terms, from requiring physical resemblance to spiritual resemblance.
In addition to the appearance of thunderclouds, the main subject of the painting, the old church, and the changing candlelight are quite different from the temperament described by this master painter.
If you want to achieve a spiritual resemblance, painting on the spot like the female painter Carroll is the best way.
Gu Weijing knew that Sakai Katsuko had been copying old churches recently, so he suggested that he change his studio to an orphanage like himself.
"It's the Good Luck Orphanage, right? You want to take photos on the spot."
Katsuko Sakai knows this is the location where Carroll's original work was filmed, and there is yearning in her eyes look. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft