{"id":1120,"date":"2019-10-25T22:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2019-10-25T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:03:11","slug":"sandstone-cliffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Sandstone Cliffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turneresque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1122\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turneresque.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turneresque.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turneresque-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turneresque-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>This week I started an oil using palette knives, something I haven&#8217;t done for ages, and it didn&#8217;t go well.\u00a0 My image was in portrait mode; I was re-using a half worked canvas, the disappearing painting being in landscape configuration. \u00a0 Unthinkingly, I set up the canvas as per the existing painting, so not much room for the sky and sea, and too much room across the painting.\u00a0 I soldiered on, but by the end of the session I was so disgusted with my efforts that I scraped off the paint and rub the surface clean.\u00a0 What do you think of my Turner?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Palette-Knife-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Palette-Knife-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Palette-Knife-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Palette-Knife-01-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Palette-Knife-01-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 85vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>So, I started again, this time with image and canvas\u00a0 agreeing.\u00a0 My first sky had been very stormy and active, but I remember the day as being sunny but with a very strong wind off the sea.\u00a0 You can get a very smooth finish with palette knives if you think of icing a cake, so this time the sky is friendlier and less active.\u00a0 The strata of the cliffs were beautifully colour coded, creamy, chocolatey, and I regret, muddy, while the sea sang in turquoise green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I started an oil using palette knives, something I haven&#8217;t done for ages, and it didn&#8217;t go well.\u00a0 My image was in portrait mode; I was re-using a half worked canvas, the disappearing painting being in landscape configuration. \u00a0 Unthinkingly, I set up the canvas as per the existing painting, so not much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sandstone Cliffs&#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\/1120"}],"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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}