After hanging out on the street for several days, Fang Yi returned to the studio at night and continued to paint the color sketch. Looking at the slightly larger color sketch of the mother and son on the screen, Fang Yi shook his head, feeling that this picture of his
The color matching of the clothes is not ideal. The clothes are too bright and not as bright and fresh as I want.
I shoveled the color manuscript from the easel until it was almost to the base. I wiped my hands with a towel and stood up from the easel. I went outside to clear my head so that I could take the next step.
Draw another one when you come down.
After standing at the door for a while, he saw Zhou Tong walking towards him along the path of the studio. He smiled and waved to Zhou Tong twice as a greeting.
Zhou Tong walked to Fang Yi, reached out and took out an invitation from his pocket and handed it to Fang Yi's hand: "The art exhibition my paintings will participate in will be held at the Municipal Art Exhibition Hall early next month, so go and support it!
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Fang Yi looked at the small long card in his hand with a few paintings on the cover and said with a smile: "Just say no! Why are you still playing such nonsense?" After saying that, he opened it and saw that it contained a regular format.
: Invite whom to where at what time. Just look at it and put it in your coat pocket.
Zhou Tong and Fang Yi walked side by side toward the studio and said, "This is a ticket worth seven or eight yuan. If Mu Jin comes back, you can take her with you!" At this point, Zhou Tong asked again:
"How are you and Mu Jin doing?"
"How about anything?" Fang Yi said with a smile: "We just get along normally! She still has to go to school for three years! What can we do? Undergraduate students are not allowed to get married, and even if we get permission, we don't have the legal permission.
Age!”.
Zhou Tong glanced at Fang Yi and said: "I feel like you guys are a little too plain. Now you go to Mingzhu less. Mu Jin comes back to see you, and when he comes back, the two of you squat in the studio.
!I’m not going to go see a movie or go shopping or anything like that!”.
"Isn't it good to just be quiet?" Fang Yi looked at Zhou Tong and said, "It's so difficult to have a relationship like a TV show or something? And then have to confess in public? I can't do that!"
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"Okay! You can make up your own mind! I just think Mu Jin is a good girl, you must catch her." Zhou Tong smiled and patted Fang Yi on the shoulder.
Fang Yi smiled at Zhou Tong, turned around and saw that his final sketch was currently placed on the easel that Zhou Tong often used. He took two steps and wanted to take down the sketch.
"Wait a minute!" Zhou Tong took Fang Yi's arm and said, "Put it on it and let me take a look!" After saying that, he walked to the easel and began to appreciate it carefully.
Fang Yi returned to his easel and began to draw another color matching draft.
Zhou Tong looked at it for a while, then turned to Fang Yi and asked: "Are you painting a mother and her son picking fruits for sale, or are you painting a Virgin and Child? Why do I feel that this woman's age still has a little luster on her face?
The transformation of the lower part is also very soft! The baby is also white and tender!”.
Fang Yi did not look up at Zhou Tong, but stared at his canvas: "When I saw mother and son for the first time, it gave me this feeling. The mother's eyes looking at her child are sacred and great! I
It’s just a matter of faithfully transferring this feeling to the canvas. If you say it’s the Virgin and Child, then let’s say it’s the Virgin and Child!”
Zhou Tong smiled after hearing this and took the drawing board off the easel. Just as he was about to lean against Fang Yi's painting cabinet, he frowned, looked around and searched around and asked, "Where are the other five or six sketches?"
Why are you missing?"
Fang Yi looked at Zhou Tong and pointed to the garbage basket at the door and said, "I have already disposed of it!".
Zhou Tong put down the drawing board in his hand, walked a few steps, looked at the pieces of paper in the garbage pile, and said, "There is one piece in it that I like very much, and I was just going to ask you to come and enjoy it! Why did it become a piece of broken cards?"
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Fang Yi looked at Zhou Tong bending over and stretching his head to look at the trash can, and explained: "What's the use of keeping things that don't satisfy me?".
I don't need the previous sketches, so what's the point of keeping them? It's better to destroy them. Now Fang Yi has this habit and set a rule for himself: all sketches that don't satisfy him will be destroyed.
, not letting them stay, only Fang Yi who is satisfied will sign his name and date on them. The sketches are directly torn into pieces and thrown into the trash can, and the things painted on the canvas are directly shoveled and started again.
The result of this is that up to now, Fang Yi has only really signed his name on two paintings. One is "July 10" and the other is the first time he has painted a human body that he is satisfied with, a female one.
The color of the skin and the texture of the body muscles are well expressed. Of course, when Fang Yi looks at this painting now, it is not at his highest level. He only left it because Fang Yi wanted to make a souvenir and survived. As for the other paintings
Then he shoveled, painted, and shoveled, and he didn't even care whether it would crack in the future. How could he sign his name?
Zhou Tong looked at a few paintings on the ground next to the studio, shook his head and said to Fang Yi: "Your requirements are a bit too harsh. What if you suddenly want to hold a painting exhibition with only these few paintings left? Those few paintings
Aren’t you pretty good at drawing small insects, but you also shoveled them away!”.
"We'll talk about it when the time comes!" Fang Yi said casually while looking at the canvas. Is it necessary for a painting that doesn't satisfy him to exist in the world? It's better to be out of sight and out of mind.
Zhou Tong glanced at Fang Yi and said with a smile: "No! The gallery only likes people like you!" Zhou Tong calculated in his mind, and according to the speed at which he understood Fang Yi to paint one painting, he would be able to make a full calculation at most five times a year.
Six paintings. Nowadays, which young painter does not produce dozens or hundreds of paintings a year? Therefore, galleries have repeatedly requested that painters cannot paint more than a few paintings a year.
"How many of you like my paintings?" Fang Yi asked with a smile.
Zhou Tong said: "It's only when the price is low that it makes sense to support you! You can't raise the price even if the paintings are all over the street! Do you know that the gallery I signed requires me to paint a maximum number of paintings a year?"
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"How many?"
"Eight pictures!" Zhou Tong raised four fingers and shook them at Fang Yi.
Fang Yi asked: "Only eight paintings? What do you do with so much time left?".
Zhou Tong said with a smile: "I heard what the manager in charge of me at the gallery said, that is, sleep when you should, and go play wherever you want if you don't want to sleep. As long as you don't create!"
"You still complain about living like this!" Fang Yi raised his head and joked with a smile.
At this time, Zhao Jie opened the door and walked in. Hearing Fang Yi's last words, he smiled and asked, "What are you complaining about, Teacher Zhou?".
Fang Yi pointed his finger at Zhou Tong and said: "I only paint a few paintings a year, and I spend almost half the year doing nothing! If I sell all the paintings, I will get more than 400,000 yuan, so I don't have to worry about food."
How many people would envy me when I was drinking?".
Zhao Jie also smiled after hearing this and said: "What Teacher Zhou said is really unsatisfactory! I usually work two jobs, and my time is almost fully arranged. If I can live a life like you in the future, I can laugh even in my sleep.
Wake up!" After saying that, he took off his coat and hung it on the back of a chair.
After Zhou Tong heard this, he also smiled and said: "It's time to be content. When the studio is built, I will buy a car! I can be considered a homeowner and a car owner, so I shouldn't complain about anything!" When he thought of this, he faced
Fang Yi asked: "Fang Yi, at which driving school did you get your driver's license? How are the instructors there? I'm going to sign up for a driving school during this time, and I have all the money ready!".
"It should be good!" Fang Yi said the name of the driving school he attended, and then said: "Anyway, I passed it in one try, and it didn't feel like it was too difficult."
"Fang Yi! What car are you going to buy?" Zhou Tong asked Fang Yi, "How about we buy it together?".
Fang Yi listened and said with a smile: "Forget it! We still have an old Poussin that my dad retired. I even want to buy it and there is no excuse!". Although the old car at home is quite old, but
This thing is not bad. You can use it for your own use as a second-hand car, but if you want to sell it, it won’t fetch much. Anyway, Fang Yi plans to drive it first so that he can make money, and then exchange it for a better one.
"Poussin is good!" Zhou Tong nodded and said, "Even if this kind of car breaks down on the road, it is easy to find a place to repair it. At that time, you will drive the car and let me go to the wild to practice?".
"No problem!" Fang Yi nodded and said after hearing this. This is the advantage of an old car. You don't feel bad if others borrow it. It's not like a new car, but it's a bit precious anyway!
Zhao Jie asked Fang Yi at this time: "Why doesn't Mr. Liu recommend you and Mr. Zhou to the gallery together?" Zhao Jie had stayed with Fang Yi for so long, so he knew that Fang Yi's paintings were now better than Zhou's.
Tong is much better. I wonder why Liu Hongshuo recommended Zhou Tong but not his disciple Fang Yi.
Fang Yi listened and said with a smile: "I only have two or three paintings, and half the wall in the exhibition hall is not full. How can I sign a gallery!" I still trust the teacher Fang Yi very much. There is always a reason for not recommending myself.
Besides, I only have a few paintings now. How do you ask the teacher to recommend them? You can't tell the gallery that my student who signed me has only two paintings. Isn't this nonsense!
The three of them chatted for a while and each began to draw their own paintings.
What Fang Yi and the others didn't know was that two guests came to Liu Hongshuo's house at this time. They were the gallery owner and Liu Hongshuo's agent. Not only did these two people come from Mingzhu to pick up the paintings today, but they also came from Mingzhu to pick up the paintings.
Another hope is that we can represent or even directly sign Fang Yi.
There are two reasons. First, Fang Yi’s realistic techniques are indeed very good. Second, the current domestic market for realistic oil paintings can be seen as a general trend of rising tide. Of course, the reputation of Liu Hongshuo’s students also makes the gallery very satisfied. The packaging
The cost of launching it is much less than others. As a businessman, it is natural to pursue profits. In addition, with the close proximity to the water, and the relationship with Liu Hongshuo that he has been working with for almost ten years, if Fang Yi is taken away by another gallery again
, that’s a joke.
Fang Yi didn't know that he had already fallen into the eyes of others.