God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 197 The Master Leads the Door

This is also the main reason why some people have studied art with a teacher for many years but failed to achieve anything or were dismissed by the master early.If you can't pass the master's test, or fail to meet the master's standard of passing on the art, it's no wonder that people can entrust the real skills to you.

Xu Jingxing actually didn't intend to hide anything from An Xin, and there was nothing to hide from carving this thing. This is a job of "the master leads the door, and the cultivation is up to the individual". The master can only lay a good foundation for the apprentice, at most A little bit of sculpting tricks, and nothing else.

But then again, most of the skills in this world are quite simple to say, but if you want to really get started, without a good guide, you won't be able to enter the door after wandering around the door for decades.

What Xu Jingxing has to do is to be a good leader and build solid basic skills for An Xin. The basic skills are solid enough. With An Xin's understanding and ability, it is not difficult to make a name for himself in this industry.

It's just that basic skills are easy to say, but if you want to consolidate them, you have to work hard.

Not to mention others, but Xu Jingxing himself, his basic skills were acquired since he was a child, not only the basic skills related to sculpture, the most important thing is his ability in calligraphy and painting, as well as his accumulation of knowledge in Chinese culture.

If you only know how to carve, then no matter how high your achievements are, you will be a skilled craftsman. If you want to become a master, you must have your own attainments in calligraphy and painting. If you want to go further, you need a deeper cultural accumulation.

Ordinarily, it is a little late for An Xin to learn these things now, but she happened to meet Xu Jingxing, a master of Yeluzi, who has mastered many skills and knowledge in all aspects. What does it take to achieve something? In other words, he can completely tailor a set of study materials for An Xin, so that An Xin can see the learning results as quickly as possible and will not delay her from laying the foundation, so that An Xin can lay the foundation at the same time. While raising the upper limit of one's ability.

It's just that this plan is still in the planning stage, An Xin doesn't need it for the time being, and the most basic and basic things are enough for An Xin to learn for a while, not to mention, calligraphy alone doesn't take a year or so Don't even think about getting started, plus the basic skills of painting, this is two or three years into it.

This is also the reason why there are fewer and fewer craftsmen, it is too time consuming, most of the young craftsmen now are trained by Xu Jingxing from childhood.It is too late to study after leaving the university campus, because that age has reached the stage of self-reliance, but learning these basic skills will not bring them any financial income, and most art scholars are automatically out of the competition at this stage. The remaining ones will also be eliminated due to reasons such as character, talent, personality, family, etc., and the last remaining ones may be nothing.

And the rest of them may not be able to learn their appearance, they may have studied for several years, which is the level of ordinary craftsmen, and they will not be able to become masters.

But Xu Jingxing has confidence in An Xin, as long as she persists.

Of course, he also believes that An Xin can persevere, because he has to pay An Xin so much salary every month, and she can learn real skills with so much money, why should she not persist?
But he didn't need to say these words to An Xin, not only was it useless to say them, but it might disturb An Xin's mind.No matter what you learn, the most taboo is to be absent-minded during the foundation stage. If the foundation is a little weak, it will be too difficult to make up for it later.

After dinner, I continued to do carving, giving some pointers occasionally to feel more at ease, and at the same time began to teach her to write with a brush.

Writing brush characters is difficult and difficult to say, simple and easy to say, learn quickly, and you can write in three to five days, but if you want to write the method, it really takes time and effort to study, ponder and write, no Do you have the nerve to say that you have research on calligraphy when you write dozens of brushes?

The next day, he went to old man Zhu's house to carve the top-quality Shoushan stone as usual.

It's just that after he went there, he was dragged by the old man Zhu for a while as a human sandbag just like yesterday, but he also learned a little fighting skills, which are the most common moves in traditional martial arts, such as throwing legs, leaning close, and pulling Yin legs and the like are very common but very practical.

He is quite interested in this kind of moves. Anyway, there is no tuition fee. If you don't learn it for nothing, it might come in handy sometime.

Working as sandbags in the morning and carving in the afternoon, it turned out that it took old man Zhu [-] days to carve this Shoushan stone, which was twice as long as he expected.However, the carving level of the carving itself is not discounted at all, and it is even three points more beautiful than expected.

On the day when the project was completed, he brought An Xin with him at the request of the old man Zhu and his wife. At the same time, he also wanted An Xin to have more access to high-quality finished products, which would help her develop in the future. At least I read a lot, so that when faced with similar materials in the future, I won’t be completely at a loss as to where to start.

When he carefully placed the Shoushan stone carving on the base of the red sandalwood carving, An Xin who was watching from the side applauded together with old man Zhu and called it beautiful.

Looking at this exquisite Shoushan stone carving, he is also very proud. It is the first time he has carved Shoushan stone to achieve such a level. It is enough to make people look at him for several years. It is successful when it is time, let alone carving out this effect.

This Shoushan stone carving is a standard follow-up carving. It is designed according to the original appearance of the stone, and the style and characteristics of the original stone itself are preserved as much as possible.

According to the original appearance of the original stone, Xu Jingxing designed the carved piece as a mountain, which is somewhat similar in shape to the Fragrant Mountain in the capital. He carved the red stone into pieces of maple trees, and the result became the autumn scenery of Fragrant Mountain with red leaves all over the mountain. The large piece of yellow stone was carved into golden leaves by him as an embellishment and background.

Although it is just an embellishment, this small design instantly makes the theme of the carving more consistent with the real autumn scenery of Xiangshan Mountain.You must know that when the red leaves of Xiangshan Mountain are all over the mountains, not all the leaves will turn red, but the middle and upper layers of the mountains are red, and the top and lower layers are still normal golden yellow due to climate reasons.

Therefore, his embellishment and background not only make the carving more realistic, but also make the red maple leaves more vivid.

What is the finishing touch?This is!

Whether it is sculpture, painting, or even writing, there is a finishing touch. If you find the finishing touch, half the success of a work is achieved.

(End of this chapter)