Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 61 Li Laoshi is professional at making handicrafts
Hand coloring is an extremely delicate job that requires patience.

Li Jiankun is also an expert in art and has the courage to put a small table without legs on his legs and click it.

First take a tube of brown paint paste and use absorbent cotton to spread it evenly on the negative.

This is called baseboard coating.

It can be particular.

There are two ways of hand coloring, watercolor and oil paint.

The advantage of watercolor is that it is translucent, making it appear more lively and transparent when expressing certain details, such as lips.

However, it is difficult to present the color evenly and quickly on the photo, and multiple layers are required.

Time-consuming.

It only takes a few hours to take a photo.

Suitable for beginners.

If the paint is not applied well, you can use Vaseline oil or other materials to wipe it——

Well, the worries of these ignorant old men are slightly unnecessary.

Of course, if you want to bring a yellowed old photo, that's a different matter.

The advantages of oil paint are texture, rich and bright colors, and fast coloring.

But if the skill is not perfect, the picture usually looks dull and craftsmanlike.

On the contrary, if you live it well, it will be a work of art similar to an oil painting!

No fading for decades.

This is also an advantage that watercolor does not have.

What Li Jiankun uses is the oil paint method.

Using brown paint to paint the base is mainly a photo coloring, which is different from painting.

Paintings are usually done on white paper, while black and white photos already have a base color, and obvious changes will occur after the paint is applied and dried.

This step is to suppress this change.

On the other hand, brown is the middle color. You can go to cool tones or warm tones to facilitate color blending.

Finish painting the baseboard.

Replace cotton swabs with absorbent cotton.

This is where the coloring begins.

"Uncle, do you have any requests?"

Li Jiankun had no time to look up and asked while drawing.

"What's the requirement? The uniform must be green!" Lou Jizong's eyes widened.

Yes, I met a Lord who is easy to talk to.

Ning said it's hard to talk?
Have!
In his previous life, Li Jiankun helped a female friend restore an old photo.

That guy kept sitting on his lap with his little mouth chattering. One moment, he said, "Why don't you highlight people's eyes?", the other moment, "The sky is bare, why don't you add some clouds?"...

Lo and behold, something came out of nothing!

If he hadn't been an experienced craftsman, Li Jiankun would not have dared to take the job.

It will be amazing after satisfying her!
She must satisfy you...

Four-inch photos, the amount of work is not large, Li Laoshi operates as fiercely as a tiger.

Half an hour, work together.

This photo under my hand also comes alive.

The original black and white... to be honest, for future generations to see, it's like a posthumous photo.

It's already bright.

The young man in the half-length photo has a bronze complexion, and the changes in light and dark on his face highlight his fortitude.

His eyes are like hawks, shining brightly.

Her thin lips were slightly red, as if she was about to speak.

Paired with a military green suit.

Even Li Laoshi had to praise: What a handsome and energetic young man!
Well, only a little bit worse than him.

"Hey hey!"

All around, hairy and hairless, and all kinds of heads came together at once.

"This guy's skills are good!"

"Hey, he's really no worse than the master in the photo studio!"

"I think it's better than those parallel import masters!"

"Tsk, don't tell me, this look is really different, like a real person."

"Just authentic!"

Lou Jizong squatted down, his face plate almost falling off the table. The little master said he had to dry it first, so he didn't dare to touch it.

Suddenly his eyes turned red.

'My precious grandson! '

Two years!
We haven’t seen each other in two years. On weekdays, I can only take out photos to express my love. Today, it was like seeing a real person.

How can you keep the old man calm?He was crying and Li Laoshi was laughing.

It's this effect.

These days, most people have never seen color photos and are used to seeing black and white photos. When seeing this thing at first glance, doesn’t it feel like seeing a real person?
"Old man, here you go, take the photo and hold it along the edge. The paint still needs to dry.

"If you think my skills are just okay, kid, then..."

Li Laoshi chuckled and rubbed his little hands.

Lou Jizong wiped his eyes and said, "No!"

Damn it, uncle, you...don't do this!

Fortunately, the old man hasn't finished speaking yet.

"Draw this one too and give it to me when you're done!"

Hey!
I see it as.

This is a big deal, a 7-inch photo.

Li Jiankun felt happy and rolled up his sleeves.

Cover!

At this time, there was an explosion all around.

"My little master's skills are solid, I have to draw one too!"

“The charges are cheaper than those of a photo studio.”

"No need to queue yet."

"Hey, old Chen, don't you have coronary heart disease? Are you going to be reincarnated as soon as possible?"

boom!
Suddenly they dispersed.

Race home like a race.

Everyone can see that this work is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The photos are taken first, and the painting is naturally done first.

You have to queue up to get to the back.

Li Jiankun suddenly felt that it was extremely wise to set up a stall in the pigeon market.

Just like opening a store, choosing the right location is at least half the success.The old men hanging around here in broad daylight, tsk tsk, all of them are powerful!
Otherwise, for a few yuan for a photo, an ordinary young worker would have to struggle to come up with it.

Of course, he wouldn't dare to do it in broad daylight anywhere else.
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Luogu Lane.

Huang Yeye was washing clothes by the well in the courtyard, rubbing her little hands in the cement pool absentmindedly.

I don't know what I thought of, but I suddenly blushed.

I heard the sound of rapid footsteps in my ears. I looked around and saw the third uncle scrambling to get into the house.

"Third uncle, what are you doing? Slow down and watch out for the steps!"

What surprised Huang Yeye was that no one paid any attention to her.

The third uncle usually treats her sparingly, so he would give her two paragraphs of storytelling to amuse Menzi.

After a while, the old man rushed out of the house again, holding a paper seal in his hand, who didn't know what it contained.

Huang Yeye was about to speak but stopped, seeing that he seemed to be in a hurry, so he didn't want to disturb him.

Unexpectedly, the third uncle sneaked to the door, suddenly remembered something, stamped his feet, turned his head and said hello:
"Ye Ye, can you take photos?

"There is a little master from Caimenying who knows how to color by hand. He is very skilled. I watched him draw one with my own eyes.

"No, everyone is rushing to send photos, and he charges a fair fee.

"No more talking, I'm going to do it first."

Swish!

I blinked and saw no one.

"Making photos?"

Huang Yeye's eyes are bright. If any girl doesn't want to take photos, she won't be able to get one in the photo studio.

Speaking of which, she really needed to take a photo.

A few days ago, a matchmaker came to her door and wanted to find a match for her. She was from a well-off family in the building near the front door. She was said to be good-looking, but she was older and had just returned to the city from a job abroad.

Parents are still thinking about it.

She doesn't think age is a problem.

You Qi heard that the other party had recently published poems in "People's Literature".

She looked for it.

My heart is also drunk.

These days, my mind is filled with the artistic conception of that poem:
"The bamboo forest under the moon is filled with silvery light, and the soft waves of autumn sway the corners of her skirt. She tilts her head to the side and gently hugs him..."

Yeah!

Shame to death!

The girl's pretty face turned redder and brighter. She hurriedly shook her hands a few times and stopped washing her clothes. She rushed back to the house and found the photo she was most satisfied with.

Take all your money.

Rushing to Caimen camp.

(End of this chapter)