Chapter 63 Landscape Painting on Stone
"Look, do those in front look like meteorites?" Paul asked, pointing to the stall in front of him.
I saw that the stones on the stall in front were all black, and some were so black that they glowed. At first glance, it looks a bit like a burned meteorite.
Everyone: "..."
Are you stunned?
Everything looks like a meteorite.
"That's Obsidian." Henry rolled his eyes at him.
Paul always "punches hard" on his friends and said unceremoniously: "You know what?"
Henry laughed and scolded: "Are you blind? Didn't you see obsidian written on it?"
Paul then took a closer look, and sure enough, there was a piece of cardboard next to it. On the cardboard was written obsidian, $8 a piece, pick whatever you want. Seeing this, he was slightly embarrassed and smiled.
"Is it worth 8 dollars a piece? I have heard of this stone in China, saying that wearing it for a long time is good for the body." Qiao Yufan asked.
He had really heard of this kind of stone. When he was in high school in China, a classmate wore one. Of course, you can only wear them after class, as these are not allowed in school.
Obsidian, the name sounds full of mystery.
"It depends on the quality! However, at 8 dollars a piece, it's really not worth it." Lin Yuan said.
It’s only $8, what else do you want?
As far as Lin Yuan knew, obsidian is a gemstone that comes from volcanoes. When a volcano erupts, the magma cools rapidly and forms this unique igneous rock.
It is mainly composed of silica, often mixed with minerals such as aluminum oxide and iron oxide, which gives it a deep black or gray color with a glass-like luster.
Ordinary obsidian is pure black in color, does not have much luster or special structure, and is relatively affordable, generally ranging from tens to hundreds of yuan.
Qiao Yufan nodded after hearing this: "That's true, it doesn't matter if you pick two pieces, but it's hard to find someone to carve it abroad."
Abroad, there are very few talents in carving and it is almost impossible to find them.
After saying that, Qiao Yufan knelt down and started picking.
You’re here, now that you’ve met, let’s do one or two!
"The fourth one on your right hand, yes! That's the good one." Lin Yuan pointed at the side.
Qiao Yufan immediately got it, took a closer look, and was surprised: "It seems to have other colors and colored lights."
Lin Yuan told him that it was colorful eye obsidian, or rainbow obsidian, which looked black at first under daily light, but would show colorful reflections under strong light.
These colored reflections can appear in various colors such as purple, green, blue, rainbow, yellow, off-white, etc. Among them, green and purple rainbow eyes are more common and pleasing to the eye.
Colorful eyes come in various shapes, including arcs and circles, among which arcs are rarer.
"Especially the piece in your hand, which is a very rare ghost-fairy blue-eyed obsidian and is of relatively high value."
When everyone heard this, they were surprised.
"Ghost Fairy Blue Eyes Obsidian", this name sounds awesome at first sight.
In fact, the proportion of red-eyed obsidian in ghost fairies is only 0.3%, and the proportion of blue-eyed obsidian in ghost fairies is only 0.5%, both of which are rare varieties.
"Brother Lin, how much does this cost?" Qiao Yufan liked it more and more.
"You can't sell it at a high price just by selling it this way. If you find someone to carve beads and make them into bracelets or something, someone will definitely want them for tens of thousands of dollars." Lin Yuan told him.
For the Chinese, everything can be turned into beads.
If you have a material and don't know what to do with it, just turn beads. The law comes from it. Qiao Yufan smiled and said: "OK! When we return to China, we'll find someone to pick up the beads."
Anyway, it's only 8 dollars a piece. Except for Lin Yuan, everyone else including the old uncle picked one or two pieces. As my uncle said, it's good to take it back to use as table legs.
Later, Lin Yuan also fell in love with a stone.
In the eyes of foreigners, that stone is nothing special, not a strange stone at all. It is just for show. Therefore, Lin Yuan won it without any effort and only spent 5 US dollars.
"When looking for strange stones, you should look for this kind of stone." Lin Yuan told everyone.
It can be regarded as a piece of advice!
"What's so special?" Paul asked.
He was the only one at the scene who couldn't understand the stone. Even Henry, because he had studied in China and had seen traditional Chinese landscape paintings, immediately understood why Lin Yuan wanted this stone.
That’s right! The surface of the stone is a landscape painting.
Landscapes and scenery are displayed on the surface of strange rocks. Most of them are due to the immersion of minerals over millions of years, forming colorful pictures. There are also a few parts where the water erosion exposes the internal stripes of the strange stones to form unique landscape pictures. In short, they are The pictures are imaginative and eclectic.
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The stone in front of me has been baptized by the years, and a strange picture has been washed out on its surface. In the picture, there are undulating mountains, vast rivers, fishing villages and wild markets, waterside pavilions, thatched cottages, long water mill bridges, etc. scattered among them.
Although it's a bit blurry, if you look closely, it seems to be true.
Not to mention the people at the scene, the audience in the live broadcast room all shouted: Absolutely!
The miraculous creations of nature are far beyond our imagination.
"This kind of painted stone must be precious!"
"You still have to ask? This kind of stone must be unique."
……
Lin Yuan told them: "There are actually quite a lot of picture stones, and they are relatively easy to form..."
As long as the stone contains other colors and impurities, after a long period of transportation by nature, it is "polished" by the river flowing day and night, and becomes flat, round, pebbles, etc., usually it can become a picture stone.
However, whether those pictures can be appreciated by everyone is another matter.
Just like the piece Lin Yuan got, there are exquisite landscape paintings on it. This kind of piece is easy for people to appreciate, at least it is easy for Chinese people to appreciate it.
The threshold for picture stones is relatively low and easy to form, so the quantity is large and the price is low. In order to avoid risks, ordinary stone lovers choose picture stones more, so the picture stone market has more advantages.
"This kind, which looks like a landscape painting, is naturally more precious. It is not impossible to have millions." Lin Yuan added.
Huo Qingtong nodded: "I don't understand strange stones, but I also like this stone."
It not only has beautiful scenery like a landscape scroll, but also has brilliant, eye-catching, natural and moving colors, which are unmatched by other picture stones.
Faced with such high and distant scenery, contrasting with the near and far, and facing such a pretty, elegant, bright and open color system, whether you like stones or not, you will be fascinated and intoxicated by it.
At this time, someone else swiped rockets in the live broadcast room, and they swiped 10 rockets in one go, worth 10,000 yuan.
Just as Lin Yuan was about to thank him, he saw a message from the Rockets guy: Brother Lin, are you selling this stone for 500,000?
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Do you want to start so quickly?
Lin Yuan smiled and asked: "Brother, do you recognize this painting on the stone?"
The brother didn't answer, but continued to increase the price: Is 1 million okay?
Qiao Yufan and others only had two words left in their minds: Damn it!
(End of chapter)