{"id":1025,"date":"2019-07-04T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2019-07-01T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:37:25","slug":"a-pot-of-flowers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"A pot of flowers again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-Flowers-N1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1029\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-Flowers-N1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-Flowers-N1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-Flowers-N1-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-Flowers-N1-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-Flowers-N1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>So I tried again.\u00a0 This time I gave myself a rough outline of pot, flowers and pillar, then ghosted in a wash of yellow ochre with Ultramarine in the shadows. This has defined my painting for me, and even in these early stages reads well.\u00a0 I should have indicated the shadowy areas on the flowers, but that has just occurred\u00a0 to me and this stage is long gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next I tackled the some of flowers.\u00a0 I remembered a small tube of Cobalt Violet I had bought ages ago, and thought it would be a good colour for them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an opaque colour but the bright colour opaques provide should work. Using it to create massed shapes of flowers, as well as blobs of paint, I approximated what I saw in the photo over the more sunny side, shadowed flowers as thicker paint.\u00a0 The green, a mix of Ultramarine Blue and Aureolin gave me the complimentary to make the violet tones sing.\u00a0 There is the odd splodge of Ruby Red\u00a0 among the violets.\u00a0 This is very concentrated work so I gave myself some light relief by turning the the pillar and\u00a0 pot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1030\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N2-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N2-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N2-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N2-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>Decision time &#8211; how much detail do I put on the pillar?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a creamy limestone, I think, roughly shaped into building blocks, and immensely attractive in its own right.\u00a0 Side lit, it showed great texture &#8211; indeed, it was this that had first attracted me.\u00a0 I re-wetted the pillar and cautiously suggested the various lumps and bumps in a mix of Ultramarine Violet and Yellow Ochre, emphasising the deeper shadows as the paint dried.\u00a0 Shadows cast by pillar and pot were darked too.\u00a0 This passage of painting didn&#8217;t seem to overwhelm the flowers so I supported them using the same mix (no blue!) to create the more formal shapes on the pillar and bowl.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I tried again.\u00a0 This time I gave myself a rough outline of pot, flowers and pillar, then ghosted in a wash of yellow ochre with Ultramarine in the shadows. This has defined my painting for me, and even in these early stages reads well.\u00a0 I should have indicated the shadowy areas on the flowers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A pot of flowers again&#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\/1025"}],"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=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}