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<\/a>Since the dome is strikingly bluey-green (I used Viridian neat with Ultramarine Violet for the darker places) it seemed sensible to use dilute Prussian Blue for the sky, laid in on previously dampened paper.\u00a0 Then I HAD to do the dome, such an exciting colour, such a neat shape.\u00a0 The building was painted warm golden yellow, so Raw Sienna was called into play, and the bright sun gave me crisp,\u00a0 fairly simple decorative details, (certainly more simple than the extravagances of Belem Cathedral).\u00a0 More intense mixture of Raw Sienna defined the\u00a0 shadows in this bright sunny painting, with the addition of Ultramarine Violet for the really dark places.<\/p>\nAt this stage, I took a photo\u00a0 – in case I ruined the whole painting by inserting the trees.\u00a0 It works fine as it is but element of surprise, of just a glimpse of colour, adds to the story.\u00a0 Just one of those moments when you see something paintable – and you have your camera with you.\u00a0 Everything was just right, the colouring, the shapes, the sunlight. Since the dome is strikingly bluey-green (I used Viridian neat with Ultramarine Violet for the darker places) it seemed sensible to use dilute Prussian Blue for the … Continue reading “Glimpsed in Nice”<\/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\/1043"}],"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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0 In the event, I think the trees are indeed an interesting addition providing context and colour balance.\u00a0 All the colours are in the yellow\/blue sector of the colour wheel.\u00a0 You don’t have to have opposites to make a good painting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The darker tree is Viridian with the addition of Ultramarine Violet, while the lighter, in both colour and texture is Viridian this time with Aureolin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"