At a construction site at Binhai Shipyard.

Several workers sat in the rest area, drinking water, smoking and chatting, and from time to time they looked into the distance at several students who were sketching.

Their lives are less exposed to university students who study art. It is even rarer for teachers and students from art colleges to come to factories to sketch, so it feels very fresh.

Whenever they noticed that some students were looking at them, they would even secretly put on a posture that they thought was better.

The students have been dispersed to different construction sites for observation.

They experience different working conditions at the construction site.

No matter how hard studying is in school, it cannot be compared with some factory work.

Noise, dirt, danger, and fatigue are the most common phenomena on construction sites, and day-to-day work leaves its mark on the workers.

Regardless of whether they had any previous knowledge of the lives of these workers, the students were shocked by what they saw.

They each chose a target and started sketching.

Jiang Zhe is no exception.

Although he knew his parents' work experience, some of the work in the factory still touched him.

He was holding a charcoal pencil and sketching a worker who had just come down from his workstation to take a break.

The worker climbed out of his work space and walked to the rest area. He unbuttoned his work clothes with one hand and picked up a water cup with the other to replenish his water.

After he calmed down for a while, he took off his work clothes and enjoyed the cool air without caring about the students watching him.

Dark skin, shiny and oily.

Jiang Zhe not only saw this vivid image, but also noticed many interesting moments. In order to quickly record these materials, he did not rush to open the painting box, but used sketches to depict them.

He uses refined lines and a small amount of light and dark relationships to broadly summarize the image, and his structural shapes are accurate and vivid, both open and restrained.

Jiang Zhe observed the characteristics of these people while painting. He inferred the age of these workers from the details such as the cups and towels they used, the cigarettes they smoked, etc.

These are details worth painting.

The entire construction site did not have any particularly bright and elegant colors, and because it was an open-air construction site, the light was scattered. But Jiang Zhe was very confident and sorted out all the relationships.

A worker walked over with a smile and watched the students sketching.

He looked at the works of many students one by one, and finally came to Jiang Zhe and tried to talk to him: "Classmate, what year are you in college? What's your major?"

Jiang Zhe responded while painting: "Uncle, hello, we are junior students, and these students are majoring in oil painting."

The worker smiled and said, "Don't call me uncle. I'm not even 30 years old. Do I look older?"

Jiang Zhe took the opportunity to observe the worker.

He had very short hair, dark skin, and looked very strong from long years of hard work, but the marks on his face far exceeded his actual age.

"Sorry. I called you brother?"

"Okay, when you draw us, can you make us look better?"

Jiang Zhe smiled and said, "You mean, make it more handsome, right?"

"Yes, you can draw us. It doesn't matter. Just make us look good."

Jiang Zhe responded with a smile: "I understand, I understand."

He made slight modifications to his sketch and showed it to the workers.

The worker found the characters in the painting much more pleasing to his eye and immediately said with a smile: "Yes, yes, you are really awesome. With such abilities, you don't have to be workers in the future." Uh ~ Jiang Zhe didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Once the worker's big brother, now he has...

"After you graduate, can you sell your paintings? Your teacher, how much can a painting sell for now?" The worker was very straightforward and asked a somewhat awkward question directly.

Many students turned their eyes away when they heard this question.

Fu Min, who was standing nearby, responded with a smile: "Our teacher sells paintings at a high price, but the paintings we sell don't sell for much, just a few hundred yuan."

"That's not a small amount. We make less than 1000 yuan a month." The worker spoke honestly and asked an awkward question. The students understood and no one took it to heart.

The worker chatted with the students for a while and asked, "Will you be assigned a job after you graduate?"

"No, we all have to find jobs ourselves," Jiang Zhe responded.

"Still, we have to work hard." The worker brother had a complicated expression: "It's also good to paint, like those great painters, a painting sells for a lot of money, which is almost the same as writing a check directly."

Seeing him start chatting with the students, several of his co-workers teased him, "Xiao Yuan, you don't understand, so don't talk nonsense."

The worker brother did not retort at all.

With him taking the lead, other workers also began to come and watch the students paint.

This is convenient, as Jiang Zhou can observe more closely and understand the difficulty of these jobs.

After the workers rested for a while, the foreman came over and urged them to change shifts.

Jiang Zhe took advantage of this time to quickly prepare the oil painting tools.

Many students saw Jiang Zhe start to paint oil paintings and began to prepare materials. Unconsciously, Jiang Zhe's words and deeds have begun to influence other students.

Some students also felt a little uncomfortable because they were being watched.

Jiang Zhe has become accustomed to painting when being watched by others, and his previous expertise in sketching also allowed him to get into the state quickly.

When going out today, he prepared a 40×60cm painting frame. Due to the limited size, there cannot be too many details.

However, when he was preparing the materials, he had already thought about in his mind how to express what he saw in one moment.

After Jiang Zhe finished drawing the draft with charcoal, he began to use direct painting to depict the scene of several workers taking a break between work.

This scene may not be as shocking as the work process, but the workers' every move and tired expression can reflect the hardship of this work.

In addition, the harsh and simple rest environment of the workers, the surrounding tools and utensils, and the changes in light caused by electric welding can well highlight their work content.

The painting is small in size and requires a stronger sense of integrity.

Jiang Zhe captures a moment in the work scene and freezes the picture with bold brushstrokes and thick colors.

He intended to create a simple image of a worker in the painting, so he tried to make the characters plump and strong, and each image must have a unique beauty.

At the same time, an overall heavy atmosphere should be created, such as open-air construction sites and various metal utensils.

Jiang Zhe depicts the image with sympathy, so the atmosphere exuded by the picture unconsciously coincides with humanistic care.

The content of this painting is a new topic for him. The structure, color, modeling and other techniques of the picture cannot continue the classic rules. Many of the brushstrokes are inspired by his feelings, and all painting languages ​​must obey the theme.

Before I knew it, an hour passed.

Jiang Zhe's sketch is almost complete.

(End of this chapter)