{"id":1095,"date":"2019-10-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T13:39:51","slug":"in-the-sunshine-on-the-home-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"In the sunshine – on the home straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, what a surprise!\u00a0 Since I resumed work on this large painting, I’ve been pussyfooting around with tentative dabs of paint trying to edge the picture towards completion, focussed mainly on the heads (and Feet!). Today – rain, so no gardening –\u00a0 with a unexpected feeling of calm, I donned my kit, laid out all (!) my paints and spent a blissful two and a half hours working over the whole canvas.\u00a0 In truth, I didn’t know it was blissful until I put down my brushes, but now I feel I own the painting again.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t need to say that I am pleased with the results.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As you can see,\u00a0 I’ve darkened the shadows of the pillars, thereby increasing the sunshine; I am thrilled to bits with his pants, and his shirt is better too; Her dress is more shapely and glowing in the light, while her head and shoulders are beginning to resemble her, and her arm has more substance;\u00a0 a little wall has crept in on the left hand side; pink flowers and green leaves are pushing through the railings;\u00a0 even the relationship of the two pillars on the right is more convincing.<\/p>\n

OK, I chickened out on his shoes.\u00a0 I’m going to draw them until I know them well enough to paint them.\u00a0 They are dark on light, but are not, repeat not, the focus of the picture.<\/p>\n

The pinks will be picked up\u00a0 by traces of that colour in her gown.\u00a0 The railings should figure in places.\u00a0 The faces need a little more shaping without returning to portrait definition.\u00a0 I think the orangy\/greeny\u00a0 background behind her head should be lower and more shaped. but all that’s for next time – soon I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, what a surprise!\u00a0 Since I resumed work on this large painting, I’ve been pussyfooting around with tentative dabs of paint trying to edge the picture towards completion, focussed mainly on the heads (and Feet!). Today – rain, so no gardening –\u00a0 with a unexpected feeling of calm, I donned my kit, laid out all … Continue reading “In the sunshine – on the home straight”<\/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\/1095"}],"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=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}