Chapter 183 Pay the Tuition

• After studying the piece for a long time, Old Mr. Hua finally nodded. “This painting is definitely authentic. Shi Tao excelled at landscape charts. His style draws straight from nature—fluid yet weighty, soft yet elegant.”
• “He’s especially good at dotting moss—dense, rolling in from all sides, full of color. He plays with ink—thick and thin, dry and wet. Sometimes the lines are simple with pale ink; sometimes they’re lush and heavy. It’s bold, free, and brimming with variation.”
• “His compositions are fresh, too. Sometimes it’s a sweeping panorama, sometimes a tight close-up—always crisp, always vivid, like the scene is about to leap off the paper.”