The Versatile Master Artist

With Boss Chen helping him get the approval documents, and money transferred to the orphanage’s account, the modernization renovation project was put on the schedule.

Gu Weijing received a notification from the system about the Experience Points credited to his account a few days ago.

Nearly 3,000 points of Free Experience Points gave him a sense of satisfaction like a poor man suddenly becoming rich.

He hasn’t been in a hurry to allocate the Experience Points for the time being.

Firstly, Gu Weijing needs to reserve some Experience Points daily to use the Calligraphy and Painting Identification Skill.

Secondly, he hasn’t decided how to distribute this Experience Points yet.

More than 3,000 Free Experience Points are neither little nor much. If roughly planned, there might not be much left.

In the virtual panel, among several feasible choices, the first thing Gu Weijing ruled out was watering the [Miscellaneous·Hundred Arts Tree].

This Hundred Arts Tree, capable of bearing miscellaneous painting skills, is as precious as the Money Tree in mythology that can drop gold and silver treasures.

For art students, a ”Legendary Level” painting skill might be more valuable than real gold and silver.

Unfortunately, it is also a bottomless pit that devours Experience Points.

Watering it once requires over a thousand Experience Points, and it only presents a ”probability” to grow new branches.

The 3,000 Experience Points he painstakingly accumulated could be gone in two or three watering sessions, with uncertain gains that might be like drawing water with a bamboo basket.

Gu Weijing can’t afford to play with this sapling for now.

The rest is the painting panel.

Among the five major painting categories, the ones Gu Weijing now most needs are Chinese Painting, sketch, and Oil Painting.

His Chinese Painting is relatively weak, sketch is the foundation in the painting field compatible with other types of painting, while the Oil Painting Technique has been nurtured by the Basic Treasure Chest, filling over half of the Tier One Professional experience bar.

If allocated to Oil Painting, it should directly break through to Tier Two Professional.

It’s precisely because all the choices seem quite good that Gu Weijing is a bit hesitant.

”What’s wrong?”

Koizumi Katsuko sensed the pause beside her, turned her head slightly, flexed her wrist a little, and asked with a light laugh, ”Do you feel tired?”

The girl stretched a little languidly.

In order to find a suitable angle to observe the orphanage from the window, and since the gatehouse had limited space, they all had to stand close together and paint while standing.

Since they started the reproduction, quite some time had passed.

Koizumi Katsuko went swimming at the beach this morning, accompanied Mrs. Sakai shopping for jade in the afternoon and evening, but was still very energetic painting till now, without feeling a bit tired.

Tacit understanding, warmth, joy, and a hint of sweetness,

Professor Yakai Ichiro has properties with beautiful scenery and brightly lit professional studios in Nagoya, Tokyo, Monaco, and Provençal, Southern France.

In the large studios Miss Shengzi was once accustomed to, the lighting systems purchased for simulating various natural light alone were worth tens of thousands of US Dollars.

Yet she felt none suited her as this simple little room with only gas lamps for illumination.

This was simply the happiest painting experience Koizumi Katsuko had ever had, and she even hoped that the painting would be larger to freeze time at this moment, never ending.

”The light?” Gu Weijing said softly, ”The light isn’t divine enough.”

”You mean the candlelight.”

Koizumi Katsuko truly lived up to being a painting genius, for her reproduction speed slightly surpassed even the rapidly improving level of Gu Weijing with the system’s help.

Gu Weijing had just finished painting the base color and distant sky on his canvas, while she had already reached the main details of the church.

After pondering for a moment, she understood the meaning of Gu Weijing’s words.

She placed her paintbrush into a solvent container for cleaning, took the palette from Gu Weijing, held it up to her forehead looking through the smooth plastic board at the sky outside, then looked at her canvas.

”Actually, it’s quite good...”

Koizumi Katsuko adjusted the gas lamp flame to the brightest, moved it slightly towards herself, comparing Gu Weijing’s and her own paints in the firelight.

As emergency lighting without conditions,

Compared to cold light flashlights or incandescent lamps easily reaching hundreds of lumens, gas lamps are weaker in illumination but have a warmer color temperature, aligning more with daily natural light.

Thus the visual perception of the canvas under the gas lamp is similar to that under sunlight, making the painted painting less prone to color distortion.

”Let me take a look for you, okay?” Koizumi Katsuko tilted her head.

After getting Gu Weijing’s consent, she dipped her painting knife with some pearl white on the palette, smeared for a while, then used a clean small brush to scrape on the canvas, yet shook her head eventually.

”If it were me, the colors would be brighter, maybe I’d add more linseed oil in the thinner, but...there’s no essential difference...this is already very accurately mixed.”

Miss Shengzi shook her head helplessly.

”Barely accurate isn’t enough,” Gu Weijing also shook his head.

”I understand, I really grasp Mr. Gu’s intention, but candlelight itself is hard to paint, and stained glass even more so. Combining the two into continuous colored light is too challenging to capture, it’s not your fault, it’s not just a matter of mastering the paint,” Koizumi Katsuko said.

Her experience in painting oil paintings slightly surpassed Gu Weijing’s, even if her grasp of light was more accurate, it doesn’t have the magic power to transform stone into gold.

Stained glass was deemed the art of the Divine Kingdom in the medieval times, precisely because of its changeable and elusive nature.