{"id":1054,"date":"2019-08-15T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2019-07-10T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:45:01","slug":"an-old-street-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"An old street completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We soldiered on, working on the building on the left.\u00a0 The shutters on either side of the open window went in with a single stroke of a flat brush, then the same flat brush with\u00a0 a deeper grey-blue used vertically so that only the tips of the brush hairs touched the surface hopped down the shape.\u00a0 That made the louvres &#8211; they only needed a trifle more dark at their edges to become convincing. Flowers, pots and greenery\u00a0 covered the wall adequately and decoratively.\u00a0 Using varying tones of reds and greens added depth, and the pots were great fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Provencial-street02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1059\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Provencial-street02-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Provencial-street02-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Provencial-street02-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Provencial-street02.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 85vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strong shadow on the ground,( it was very sunny), made me see that the walls were too warm.\u00a0 It seemed a pity to lose the colour, but &#8220;needs must&#8221;, so I blued it with a light wash after all was very dry.\u00a0 The final touch was the opaque white on the heads and shoulders of two of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We soldiered on, working on the building on the left.\u00a0 The shutters on either side of the open window went in with a single stroke of a flat brush, then the same flat brush with\u00a0 a deeper grey-blue used vertically so that only the tips of the brush hairs touched the surface hopped down the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An old street 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\/1054"}],"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=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}