I remember going out to sketch before, before leaving, the teacher led us to make our own oil painting paper, glue the gauze with latex on the thick whiteboard paper, in order to prevent oil absorption, and then brush a white paint.
We walk around the countryside every day. I carried a clip and a painting tool on my back, and rode my son on my shoulder. See which one has a good courtyard, good trees, a good appearance, such as a beautiful girl, or a white-bearded old man, go to which one to sketch.
One day I came to a residential courtyard, a circle of earthen kang was covered with flower felt, and a big lady on the earthen kang was running the housework. The vines are spread overhead, and a little sunlight shines through the vines on the ground.
When the teacher painted the ground, instead of drawing according to the "inherent color" of the earth yellow that the land "should have", it was painted purple gray, which we felt strange, and then carefully observed, it was really purple gray. Why? The teacher nodded a few bright golden, orange, and pink on the purple gray, and I immediately understood that this was the warm color of the sun, and under its contrast, the ground became purple gray. This is actually the "color complement effect" of human eye vision.
Sometimes when we draw tree shadows, there are no light spots under the purple-gray tree shadows, and the teacher also has to draw a few warm color spots, and I ask the teacher: Why is this? The teacher laughed and said: This is to break a break, a large piece of purple gray appears too stiff and too dead, a few light spots this piece will live.
No wonder the teacher's paintings are always so active, lively, and vivid, unlike my paintings, the truth is here.
In those years, we had creative tasks every year, and we needed to go to the countryside to collect materials. Anyway, the painter's task is to express life. I drew a sketch and then drew a small color draft. After the painting, the color is still monotonous, gray, and looks relatively bland.
I asked the teacher to help change it, the teacher used his skillful decorative style, three strokes and two strokes to change the color draft for me, the whole changed a tone, showing the mountain under the sunset sunset, several protagonists are all reflected in the sun red and shiny, the shadow has become blue-purple.
The partner who was painting together squinted and said, "It's really incredible, it looks like the sun is really dazzling, we all have to squint our eyes to dare to see!" ”
Yes, he was right, it was that feeling.
I drew a large painting according to the teacher's small color draft and completed the creation. Of course, I couldn't paint the effect of the sun as dazzling as the teacher's, but the effect was much better than the original effect, and I could finally make a difference.
One year, the teacher went to the Ili grassland with several painters to sketch. Brought back dozens of oil paintings, each one so beautiful, especially the flowers on the grassland, he used bright horizontal brushstrokes to dye on the green grass of the vertical brush strokes, and added one or two cool shades under each flower, all of a sudden, those flowers seemed to come alive, as if they came out of the picture, the three-dimensional sense was particularly strong.
I saw so many of his sketches, I was envious, and I couldn't help but say, "Teacher, you send me a picture!" Let's be together for so many years, leave a souvenir! ”
The teacher smiled heartily as usual: "Okay, no problem!" "But it didn't actually send me. Of course, I am also a painter and can understand the teacher's mood. Every good painting is a painter's child, full of the painter's painstaking efforts, where is his own child willing to give it away?
It doesn't matter if the teacher is reluctant to send it, I have all of them when I have a few paintings, I am still confident in my copying kung fu, and I can definitely reach the same point as the original.
But if you think about it, this matter was delayed a little, and it did not come to fruition.
Later, because the teacher wanted to hold a painting exhibition, all his paintings were taken away. But then the paintings were never returned.
Alas, regret, if you grasped the copying of those few oil paintings of the grassland at that time, and wanted to paint the grassland in the future, wouldn't it be much easier? Goodbye, never see the teacher's prairie sketch painting again.
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