{"id":1018,"date":"2019-06-20T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:36:46","slug":"gone-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Gone Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my efforts to encourage incipient painting thoughts, I am, as usual, looking to Hazel Soan for guidance.\u00a0 It was pouring with rain, so I looked through my photos for a townscape with people in it to create a monochrome tonal sketch and found &#8230;..\u00a0 Honestly, trying to discipline myself to follow the path I have agreed with myself is like trying to herd cats.<\/p>\n<p>Colour &#8211; I can&#8217;t resist it.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this a glorious turquoise? \u00a0\u00a0 All thoughts of monochrome townscapes fled as I plunged into the deep blue sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fishing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1017\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fishing-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fishing-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fishing-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fishing.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s Manganese Blue &#8211; a non-staining, semitransparent colour which I discovered in Zoltan Szabo&#8217;s book &#8220;Color-by-Color&#8221;.\u00a0 It just sings off the page, orangy-reds being the perfect accompaniment.\u00a0\u00a0 Over washed with Viridian for the swell that lifts the shallow boat, still it glows through.\u00a0 That&#8217;s no small achievement as Viridian is not a shy colour.\u00a0 I&#8217;m truly pleased with that wave.\u00a0 This is letting the brush do the work.\u00a0 This is watercolour.<\/p>\n<p>So, no townscape; no monochrome;\u00a0 but perhaps I can claim in self defence that the figures are virtually silhouettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my efforts to encourage incipient painting thoughts, I am, as usual, looking to Hazel Soan for guidance.\u00a0 It was pouring with rain, so I looked through my photos for a townscape with people in it to create a monochrome tonal sketch and found &#8230;..\u00a0 Honestly, trying to discipline myself to follow the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gone Fishing&#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\/1018"}],"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=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}