bookrebus Chapter 142 Stone Painting
Chapter 142 Stone Painting
Jiang Luoluo happily lifted the wooden board in front of her, revealing the dazzling image on it.
The largest and most complete piece of round, transparent crystal, though with some cracks, was inlaid in the center of the wooden board, like a full moon in the sky.
The surrounding small, translucent stones of different sizes, sparkling and translucent, looked like stars in the sky.
Xing was stunned on the spot.
“This is…” Xing asked in great surprise and disbelief.
Jiang Luoluo then smugly uttered three words, "Drill, Stone, Painting".
Jiang Luoluo then shook her head, "Yes, stone painting."
Yes, Jiang Luoluo couldn't think of a better way to grind transparent lenses, but she suddenly discovered that she could use these discarded, broken, transparent stone fragments to create a shimmering stone painting of the night sky on a wooden board.
Although it doesn't quite fit the name "diamond painting," Jiang Luoluo thought these transparent stones were as beautiful as diamonds, so she blurted out the words "diamond painting."
However, feeling that "荇" might be difficult to understand, he changed his wording to "stone painting".
Xing's eyes sparkled with wonder; clearly, this stone painting composed of transparent pebbles had completely captivated her, making it impossible for her to look away from it for a long time.
Without saying a word, Jiang Luoluo naturally pulled Xing's arm, preparing to teach her how to make a stone painting.
Actually, simply piecing together the shapes is quite simple. As long as you choose similar shapes, the human eye's automatic matching function will automatically substitute the closest pattern.
However, figuring out how to use these different shapes to piece together the image of an overall environment is not a simple matter.
However, Jiang Luoluo believed that with Xing's intelligence, she would soon grasp the key points and then figure out more methods and techniques to create more and better stone paintings.
Xing quickly began to try it out.
Transparent stone fragments are quite sharp, so be careful not to hurt yourself. It's best to use tools to help secure them to a wooden board.
Jiang Luoluo generously handed the Earth Star Stone in her hand to Xing, then suddenly stopped, staring intently at the Earth Star Stone in her hand.
A thought suddenly popped into her mind: she couldn't grind a lens with transparent stone because she didn't know enough about transparent stone and was too clumsy. But what if she used Earth Star Stone? Could she grind it?
Firstly, one advantage of Earth Stone over these transparent stones is that it has sufficient toughness, so even if the force is incorrect or too great, it will not suddenly break or develop any cracks or fissures.
This only happens when you chisel very hard.
So if Jiang Luoluo could first use a starstone to grind a lens into the correct shape, wouldn't she be able to better master the lens grinding technique and grasp some of the underlying principles?
Jiang Luoluo hurriedly pushed all the transparent stone fragments around her to Xing's side, then ran to the cabinet and found all the remaining Earth Star Stones.
Jiang Luoluo didn't touch the large pieces of stone that could be used to sharpen stone knives and weapons. Instead, she took out the remaining stone fragments after the stone knives had been sharpened.
Xing observed the cub's activities with curiosity for a while, but her attention was more drawn to the stone painting in her hands, and she quickly became immersed in making the stone painting.
After imitating the stone painting of the cub Luo and making a similar but completely different semi-finished product, Xing raised her head to look at the cub.
Several small, round pieces of Earth Star Stone appeared in the cub's hand.
"Luo, what is this? Is it a new stone tool?" Xing asked, puzzled.
Jiang Luoluo handed Xing a round stone shard made from Earth Star Stone.
Touching the not-so-sharp edges and the overly smooth and flat surface, he dismissed the possibility that it was a weapon.
After thinking about it for a moment, he couldn't think of any more possibilities, so he looked up at the cub again.
Jiang Luoluo smiled smugly and pointed at the transparent stones, saying, "I'm going to... grind them into this shape."
Jiang Luoluo needs to pause and pause before she can finish a sentence that is too long.
Xing suddenly realized that this was the shape the cub wanted to make from transparent stone. Not to mention having a ready-made sample, Xing had some new ideas and wanted to try it out.
After all, relying solely on the cub's language and actions had led to some deviations, preventing an accurate understanding of what the cub wanted and increasing uncertainty.
This naturally increases the probability of failure in production. But now that we have such a clear target in terms of appearance, we can be more focused and precise in our work, and it is easier to succeed.
A moment later...
Xing stared at the shattered, transparent stone in her hand, lost in thought.
It seems there's still a gap between imagination and reality.
The brain said, "You understand now, go for it!"
The hand said, "No, you haven't learned it yet."
However, Jiang Luoluo was already quite calm about it. Once you get used to failure, it won't cause you any emotional fluctuations at all.
Jiang Luoluo calmly stared at the newly made wooden boards, pondering what other patterns she could make for more beautiful stone paintings... They were already sitting idle.
Jiang Luoluo is even considering whether to take out all the colorful, transparent stones from her shelf and smash them to add more color to the stone paintings and make them look better.
However, Jiang Luoluo was just thinking about it. After all, if she really wanted to make a stone painting with richer colors, she could use ordinary stones of other colors instead of having to choose transparent stones.
While transparent stones may produce a more crystal-clear effect, other stones also have their own unique beauty, and stone paintings made from different stones will definitely have a different feel.
For example, transparent stones have a clear, sparkling texture, while opaque or murky stones appear heavier and more ethereal.
Different patterns and colors can evoke different psychedelic or other feelings.
Therefore, artistic pursuits require a great deal of talent.
An average person might spend a lifetime learning how to use a certain basic color to represent a corresponding image, but a talented person can find the most suitable color combination just by looking at an object, even if this combination is not mainstream or recognized by the mainstream.
But in the hands of these gifted geniuses, they can create different things from the same things, and express the same things in different ways.
Although Jiang Luoluo may not understand some of the art, it does not prevent it from being an expression of the creators' inner feelings, nor does it prevent people from finding emotions that resonate with themselves in those creations.
In Jiang Luoluo's eyes, Xing is a person with artistic talent. She seems to understand color matching very well. Even though she has never learned the basics, even if Xing's initial work is not as good as Jiang Luoluo's, the final result looks more beautiful and eye-catching than Jiang Luoluo's. This is a kind of talent.
However, no matter how beautifully something is made, it's completely useless when it comes to grinding lenses.
Jiang Luoluo and Xing silently looked at the many more pieces of broken stone materials they had gathered for making stone paintings, and sighed helplessly.
The biggest problem with the Magic Transparent Lens is that the quality of the transparent stone is extremely poor.
How bad was it? So bad that when Jiang Luoluo rubbed two identical transparent stones together, it was like rubbing two lollipops together in her past life.
Are the candy balls hard? Yes, they are hard, but not hard enough; they can be easily crushed with any amount of force.
In other words, the weight of these transparent stones was no different from that of two hard candy balls in terms of the tribe's strength.
If you try to grind these "sugar balls" together to form the desired shape, they will break apart if you use too much force, and if you use too little force... well, the tribespeople never have little force.
What pained Jiang Luoluo the most was that despite grinding so many stones here, she felt no increase in her experience in grinding lenses; she had spent all her time controlling herself not to use too much force.
That's so hard to do!
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The two of them worked hard all day, and in the end, Xing returned home with the stone paintings on two wooden boards that she had made.
The beautiful and dazzling stone paintings quickly attracted the attention of Grandma and her younger brother Ping, who were taking turns staying at home.
However, when they recovered from the shock of the stone painting, they found Xing still there, holding a black Earth Star Stone and thinking.
Xing got this black Earth Star Stone from Jiang Luoluo. She was thinking that after bringing it back, she might be able to come up with some solutions or better ideas at home to help the cub.
Jiang Luoluo made several small samples like this in one go, and it wouldn't be a problem to give one or two to Xing.
Seeing how interested Xing was, they even gave her a few transparent stones to take home and play with. She could either polish them into lenses or smash them to make stone paintings.
Seeing that Xing was deep in thought, Ping couldn't help but go up and ask her why.
Upon learning that Jiang Luoluo wanted to make such a round shape using transparent stones, Ping also became curious and wanted to try it, but ended up failing.
Seeing her son's setback, Xing's mother became curious and tried it herself, but failed again.
Xingzhi comforted her family in the same way Jiang Luoluo comforted her, "This is normal. Luoluo has tried so many times without success, so don't worry about wasting it. The broken pieces can be made into stone paintings. That's how these stone paintings are made."
Xing's family members all verbally agreed and said they didn't care, but in reality, the next day they found stones and secretly tried to use them without Xing's knowledge.
One reason is the tribe's people's unwillingness to admit defeat, and the other is that this is what the young Luo wants to do.
They have always been grateful for what Jiang Luoluo did for Xing, bringing about such a change and giving Xing a way to live on her own.
So when they saw Jiang Luoluo encountering such trouble, they thought they could do something to repay her.
However, they did not tell Xing about their idea, but planned to do it secretly, so that if they failed, they would not cause trouble for the cub Luo.
Ping isn't one of the most outstanding children on Little Stone Mountain, even though he's already among the oldest.
Next year, Ping will also leave Xiaoshishan to undergo combat training with his parents.
But because Pingtai was too clever, he couldn't become one of the best children on Little Stone Mountain.
Just like joy—intelligent people always think more deeply.
Most of the time, they will be more conflicted, not knowing what to do or how to choose, because smart people always think more and are better able to judge gains and losses, unlike those who are not so smart and are so simple and pure.
Therefore, in many situations, the smarter you are, the less power and strength you can exert.
Because smart people always choose to retreat at the right time and will not do things beyond their ability to judge.
Sometimes, if you don't challenge your limits, you'll never surpass them.
Those who dare not move forward are destined to fall behind.
However, smart people also have their advantages, namely that they are unlikely to have any irreconcilable conflicts with anyone, and instead, they tend to have good relationships with everyone.
So when Ping was grinding stones by himself while everyone else was training, people quickly came up to him and asked what he was doing.
Xingzheng was in a bad mood because of yet another failure. He didn't want to answer the other person, but then he suddenly realized something.
He himself might not be able to accomplish what the cub Luo wants, but others might be able to. As long as enough people do it, someone will surely be able to do it.
As long as it can help the cub Luo solve this problem, even if he didn't do it himself, it will still be considered a help.
Then, Ping rolled his eyes, revealing an extremely disappointed and annoyed expression. He casually mentioned that this was something that the cub Luo had tried to make by exchanging transparent stones with them, but it was too difficult. The cub Luo had been working on it for a long time without success, and he had also tried for a long time without success... in order to attract the attention of others.
News about Jiang Luoluo is quite a hot topic on Xiaoshi Mountain.
Ping Gang had barely finished speaking when a large crowd gathered around him, eager to hear more details, after he mentioned Jiang Luoluo.
happy and Zhuang also joined in at this time; they were more interested in Jiang Lele's news than others.
The good news is that, as happy has grown older, his status on Xiaoshishan has improved significantly. He has evolved from the lower middle to the middle, and in another two years, he can try to become the upper middle.
It feels a bit like moving from second grade to third grade.
Zhuang went from being a first-grader to a second-grader... There was no way around it; before new children joined Xiaoshishan, Zhuang was still among the youngest.