Soul Painter

Govan's first model.

Is a bum.

This is a queue jumper, or rather, he was not in the queue.

The citizens are queuing up there, and the government staff are counting the number of people and checking their names.

Although $100 is not much, it is still a considerable amount of income for most Bostno people, so fraudulent claiming is very likely to happen. For this reason, the city government not only made a unified personnel arrangement plan, It will also verify whether the invitee is himself or not by verifying his driver's license or social security number.

The task of painting 100,000 Bostno families can be said to be a national project, and it would absolutely be impossible to complete without the assistance of the city government.

While the municipal staff were regulating the team and counting the names, Gao Fan saw this dirty tramp walking in front of him. Lawrence wanted to stop him, but Gao Fan stopped him.

"May I?" the homeless man asked, pointing to the drawing board in Gao Fan's hand.

He knew that this was a painter who was painting Bostno people, but he didn't know whether he belonged to the Bostno people defined by the painter.

"Sure~" Gao Fan understood what he meant, and pointed to the chair in front of him, "Please sit down."

The tramp sat down awkwardly, and after less than two minutes, Gao Fan signaled that he was done.

So fast? The homeless man walked behind Gao Fan curiously. He saw a large number of slightly scribbled lines on the drawing board, smearing out a somewhat dark alley. It hangs down, a little sad, and looks a little helpless in this dimness. One after another, the light shines from the window on one side of the wall, and is reflected on the drawing paper, leaving one piece after another blank.

The darkness on his face was in stark contrast to the warm light shining on the ground from the window... God, he couldn't imagine how this painter could draw such a precise picture with lines in just two minutes, and, this The picture seemed to fit so well with the day he started wandering and the moment he left home, as if the painter's brush with magic power extracted this scene from his heart.

"Your reward." Gao Fan took a hundred dollars from Lawrence and stuffed it into the homeless man's hand, "Your home is not in Bostno, maybe your family is waiting for you."

What else did the tramp want to say.

At this time, the government staff had already begun to guide the flow of people, walking towards Gao Fan and Anna, the homeless people were pushed away, and Gao Fan and Anna welcomed their first portrayal objects.

The entire municipal square seemed to be holding a rally. Hundreds of Bostno citizens lined up were divided into two groups. Each time they sat down and stood up, the time interval would not exceed 5 minutes, and a vivid picture The sketch portraits have been completed, starting from this day in April, nearly 400 people will become the models of Gao Van and Anna every day.

In other words, four hundred to two thousand people will live in their inspiration hall—because it is based on the family, so drawing a portrait of one person will most likely mean getting the facial features of six people, and this process will It will last for eight to nine months. In that year, a completed Bostno will be generated in the Hall of Inspiration.

The first day of work ended well.

It took ten hours from eight in the morning to six in the evening.

After that, Gao Fan and Anna still had time to go to the bar next to the city hall with Lawrence to have a glass of beer.

Here they met a lot of Bosno citizens who exchanged $100 for sour beer.

They all knew him and her.

In the next nine months, almost everyone in this city will know him and her, because the lives of 600,000 people will be intertwined into a great painting representing the spirit of this city under their pens.

"To our great Mr. Painter~" Someone held up a beer glass.

There was a lot of response.

Everyone shouted: "Respect GAO!"

Gao Fan smiled, and then, he drank a lot of wine, but he was not drunk, and soon he would find out that this was a curse, a backlash from using the 'Cat's Secret Realm'.

This kind of backlash allows him to stay awake no matter what the situation is, which is not a good thing. For example, when certain diseases go deep into the bone marrow, human beings will use fainting to protect themselves, and Gao Fan temporarily or permanently loses this ability .

This is a perfect match for the pain caused by the elk cat.

...

The second day, the third day...the first week, the second week...the first month.

When the time came to mid-May, this "painting performance art" lasted for a month, which aroused a wider range of attention. The three major radio and television stations in the beautiful country made news reports on it, and the authoritative news column "Nightly News" It even took three minutes to introduce the life of this oriental painter and his ongoing creation.

"...most people think it's just a joke, but a joke that has been played for a month will also turn into an amazing feat. According to GAO's agent, this creation will last for nine months. God, It only takes me so long to have a baby!" Tom Brokaw, who has been an NBC anchor for 20 years, expressed his amazement to the audience.

On social platforms, Tom Brokaw firmly believes that this is a 'hype', and he is willing to use bikinis as a bet.

Now, on social platforms, a lot of discussions about "Bostonians" are also continuing to ferment. Everyone is starting to discuss whether this painting can be completed. They feel that it is only a very small number of people who can complete it. After all, there has never been such a precedent in the world.

Taking advantage of this heated discussion, the Gardner Museum's "Mask" solo exhibition ushered in the last wave of visits. From January to May, the exhibition dragged on for four months and finally came to an end. First of all, the previous two The lease agreement with the buyer of the painting can no longer be renewed, followed by the purchase agreement with the New York Museum, which is also due for delivery.

Mrs. Gardner reluctantly kept "Greed" among them, and watched the other 15 paintings being packed away and sent to foreign countries.

"Never see such a miracle again." Mrs. Gardner was rather sentimental.

So Lawrence recommended to her the little church in Provence, which contained another masterpiece completed by Gao Fan with the same skill, even better.

Mrs. Gardner decided to go to Provence to find a miracle.

And Gao Fan's creation is still going on.

A wider range of news dissemination has allowed the Bostno government to play a greater role in mobilizing citizens to participate in the creation and become Gaofan models. Some people may not care about $100, but he does not want to miss being part of the miracle, so the city The government began to publish a larger list, allowing everyone to arrange in order, so as to ensure that every invited citizen has sufficient preparation time.

So some doubts arose.

There are some names and families that were not recorded on the list, causing controversy.

"I have lived here for twenty-six years, am I not from Bostno?" Protesters would appear in the city hall square every day. For this reason, Gao Fan had to discuss with Luoda and set up an emergency treatment center. That is, Lawrence, who is responsible for paying these additional fees.

...

Gao Fan looked at the homeless man sitting in front of him, and couldn't help laughing: "How many times is this?"

The homeless man looked blank: "What are you talking about?"

"Go, go, don't bother me." Gao Fan took out 100 dollars and threw it in the hands of the homeless man.

It seems that many people regard this place as an opportunity to make a fortune.

Chapter 1~