flstandardbreds Chapter 316 Taking a Different Approach: Creating Art with Oil Painting
Chapter 316 Taking a Different Approach: Creating Art with Oil Painting
At this moment, Bai Mengran is busy preparing afternoon tea breaks.
Since there is more than an hour of creative time in the afternoon, the atmosphere is relatively free. Guests can paint or compose poems without any strict rules.
Meanwhile, at the tables where they had just composed poems, she was thinking of preparing afternoon tea and snacks in advance.
In this way, if guests are thirsty, tired, or have finished creating, they can return here, sit down, and leisurely enjoy a pleasant afternoon tea.
With the main meals already perfectly prepared, the preparation of afternoon tea was naturally a piece of cake.
Bai Mengran moved with lightning speed, quickly ordering the following dishes according to the pre-arranged menu: Eight Cups of Famous Tea, Eight Delicacies of Tea and Snacks, Eight Desserts, and Six Seasonal Fruits.
This could be described as an extremely lavish afternoon tea. Bai Mengran could only say that people who can draw quickly are truly blessed!
After the goods are delivered, they are placed in the food preparation area.
When guests arrive, the maids will bring out the afternoon tea menu printed by Bai Mengran, allowing guests to choose their favorite tea and snacks, which will then be served.
After finishing these preparations, Bai Mengran glanced at the time and found that she still had plenty of time.
So she got the urge to participate and decided to paint a picture herself.
As for how to cleverly and unexpectedly win among a group of great painters, she already had a plan in mind.
"Tongzi, could you please help me purchase some tools I need for oil painting sketching?"
To save time, Bai Mengran decisively chose to let the system help her.
[Oh ho, so the host is planning to surprise these ancient people with oil paintings?]
The system raised an eyebrow with great interest, quite surprised by the host's clever thought process.
"Hmm, it's all about exploiting information asymmetry. Luckily, I studied oil painting for a few years, which comes in handy!"
Although Bai Mengran is skilled in traditional Chinese painting, she has no advantage whatsoever in front of these ancient masters of painting.
Naturally, we had to find another way, and oil painting was undoubtedly an excellent breakthrough.
This also gave Bai Mengran the opportunity to put her sketching and oil painting skills, which she had learned in her spare time during junior and senior high school, to good use.
The main point is that you won't learn in vain; who knows, maybe one day you'll time-travel like her and it will actually come in handy!
[Host, I've ordered a complete set of oil painting equipment for you from the store. Should I add it to your inventory or send it out now?]
The system is quite reliable, and its execution is top-notch. It completed the operation in the background while we were talking.
"Let me choose a location first, then we'll deploy it..."
As Bai Mengran strolled along, she carefully searched for a suitable angle, hoping to find a scene with rich colors so that the effect of painting it with oil would be even more outstanding.
Just then, Bai Mengran spotted Lu Yanran not far away and decided to jog over to her.
Lu Yanran was intently painting a distant scene. Bai Mengran looked around and found that the composition of the view from here was really good. It captured a quiet bamboo forest, with artificial hills and pavilions in the background as a backdrop...
Okay, my friend has great taste, she chose this place!
When the system delivered her tools, Bai Mengran was busy setting up a simple easel when Lu Yanran turned around and noticed her.
"Huh, Mengran? When did you get here? I didn't even notice..." Lu Yanran's face was full of surprise, but even more so, joy.
"Hehe, I arrived just as you were concentrating on your painting, Yanran. Seeing how focused you were, I didn't want to disturb you~" Bai Mengran smiled at her.
She quickly opened the toolbox and found that it was indeed fully stocked. She then took out the palette and paints one by one and spread them out on the grass.
Just as Lu Yanran was about to say something, her gaze was drawn to the equipment in Bai Mengran's hand, which looked completely different from her own painting tools, and all her attention was instantly drawn to it.
She couldn't help but ask curiously, "What... what are these tools?"
Bai Mengran smiled and explained to her simply:
"These are specifically for oil painting."
Um, I don't know how to describe it to you right now, but you'll understand once you see it..."
It wasn't that she was deliberately keeping people in suspense; it was just that she genuinely didn't know how to explain oil painting to the ancients.
Moreover, Bai Mengran has rarely painted oil paintings in recent years, so she is somewhat unsure of herself.
However, having some basic skills, she first selected a long, rectangular oil painting frame and fixed it to the easel.
I filled a collapsible bucket with water, soaked a set of brushes of different sizes provided by the system in the bucket, and then squeezed several commonly used colors onto the palette.
With preparations complete, Bai Mengran took a small to medium-sized paintbrush from the bucket, dipped it in brown paint on the canvas, and began to sketch the outline.
While she was focused on painting, she chatted idly with Lu Yanran, who was not far away.
"Yanran, we need to hurry up and finish drawing! Once we're done, we'll go have afternoon tea – it's so delicious!"
While painting, Bai Mengran was also drawing a "big pie" for Lu Yanran, successfully tempting Lu Yanran to agree repeatedly, and her hands unconsciously quickened their movements.
Within minutes, Bai Mengran had drawn up a rough sketch.
Next, she began to carefully apply and fill in the colors, proceeding methodically from coarse to fine.
She was determined to reproduce the scene in front of her as faithfully as possible on the canvas, mainly using a realistic style.
Of course, due to limited time, she could only focus on the important points and not spend too much time on the details.
As time quietly passed, Bai Mengran was completely absorbed in her creation, unaware that more and more literati and artists around her were being drawn to her unique painting style.
Holding a flat paintbrush, she boldly applied colors to the special canvas, a style of painting that was completely different from the delicate and graceful brushstrokes of traditional Chinese painting.
However, the paint seemed to come alive under her brush, quickly outlining and layering to create a three-dimensional picture.
"This... why is this young lady painting like this? It looks really strange?"
An elderly man with a long beard was passing by when he was immediately captivated and stopped in his tracks, looking at the place with curiosity.
The young scholar beside him also looked puzzled and couldn't help but say, "I have never seen such a painting method before. The paint is so thick and layered. I really don't know what the finished painting will look like..."
More and more people gathered around, and some, even those who had only finished half of their drawings, couldn't resist their curiosity and put down their brushes to come and watch.
At this moment, everyone had already recognized the person calmly painting in front of them as Bai Mengran, the owner of [Fairyland] who had brought countless surprises to everyone today!