{"id":1002,"date":"2019-05-31T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:50:59","slug":"a-tonal-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"A tonal study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an attempt to start painting again by\u00a0 studying of observational skills, and I think it&#8217;s working.\u00a0 I got the idea of doing this from Hazel Soan&#8217;s latest book, &#8220;Light and Shade in Watercolour&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the very first exercise she suggests.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve painted this window before and was not impressed with the result, but this one is going better &#8211; not completed yet, but promising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tonal-Exercise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1004\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tonal-Exercise-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tonal-Exercise-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tonal-Exercise-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tonal-Exercise-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tonal-Exercise.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 85vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m using Cobalt and Burnt Sienna on A3 Kahdi paper, so it&#8217;s quite big.\u00a0 The intention is to give room to develop the various tones, and concentrating on the relationship of the tones has taken my mind away from whatever was spooking me.\u00a0 In fact, I&#8217;m rather pleased with it,\u00a0 but I&#8217;m even more pleased that I am keen to finish it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an attempt to start painting again by\u00a0 studying of observational skills, and I think it&#8217;s working.\u00a0 I got the idea of doing this from Hazel Soan&#8217;s latest book, &#8220;Light and Shade in Watercolour&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the very first exercise she suggests. I&#8217;ve painted this window before and was not impressed with the result, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A tonal study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}