{"id":1083,"date":"2019-09-19T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2019-09-17T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:44:19","slug":"australian-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Australian Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gum-trees-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1086\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gum-trees-01-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gum-trees-01-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gum-trees-01-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gum-trees-01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 85vw, 244px\" \/><\/a>A new term opens and I am using a photo taken in Australia when on my holiday there.\u00a0 The photo was taken a day or two after my arrival, and a first sight &#8220;a path through trees&#8221; may seem\u00a0 a tad ordinary.\u00a0 However these are gum trees, a source of endless fascination, their differing varieties, their pealing bark, their resilience, and I am hoping that I manage to get the colouring right.\u00a0 There are blue tones in the foliage in many trees, even as far south as Melbourne, (It&#8217;s winter, by the way) part of the subtle visual &#8220;otherness&#8221; I shall be seeking to pin down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using velour\u00a0 pastel paper which takes pastel strokes beautifully, and as I like the strokes to show, it collaborates with all its might.\u00a0 A light drawing in pastel delineated the trees &#8211; it was the placing of the trees which made this an appealing composition &#8211; then I indicated roughly, with as many darks as I could find, the foliage and the &#8220;stitching line&#8221; of darks in the near distance.\u00a0\u00a0 With a few slashes of light on the trunks and\u00a0 darks for the shadows, the picture begins to emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new term opens and I am using a photo taken in Australia when on my holiday there.\u00a0 The photo was taken a day or two after my arrival, and a first sight &#8220;a path through trees&#8221; may seem\u00a0 a tad ordinary.\u00a0 However these are gum trees, a source of endless fascination, their differing varieties, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1083\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Trees&#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\/1083"}],"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=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}