{"id":1027,"date":"2019-07-11T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2019-07-01T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:51:06","slug":"a-pot-of-flowers-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"A pot of flowers &#8211; completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1032\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N3-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N3-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N3-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N3-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pot-of-flowers-N3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 85vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>The first task was to complete the flowers. I used the same colours and technique as before.\u00a0\u00a0 It truly was a mass of exuberant colour so I didn&#8217;t try to differentiate the individual flowers too much, relying of light and shade to give vitality.<\/p>\n<p>The pillar now looked too mauve in comparison to the pot and its stand, but that was soon corrected by a light wash of the Ultramarine Violet and Yellow Ochre mix and the introduction of that mix in a deeper tone in the darkest of the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about making more of the setting, but decided against it.\u00a0 It was sufficiently indicated to provide a backcloth to the main actors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reasonably pleased with this &#8211; flowers were never my favourite thing, and this is a more coherent attempt than the first one I showed you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first task was to complete the flowers. I used the same colours and technique as before.\u00a0\u00a0 It truly was a mass of exuberant colour so I didn&#8217;t try to differentiate the individual flowers too much, relying of light and shade to give vitality. The pillar now looked too mauve in comparison to the pot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A pot of flowers &#8211; completed&#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\/1027"}],"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=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}