{"id":1179,"date":"2020-01-09T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2020-01-08T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:37:00","slug":"red-desert-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Red Desert continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now to introduce some detail.\u00a0 The initial painting has given me the essential painting, and it is possible to leave it at that.\u00a0 That feels like the easy way out &#8211; insufficient rigour.\u00a0 Right now, I want tidy up and tighten up, do justice to the huge impression this enormous red desert made on me.\u00a0 This scene, so near the hotel in Uluru, has far more vegetation in it than we saw on the journey to Darwin,\u00a0 most of it grey-green or straw in hue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-Desert02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1181\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-Desert02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-Desert02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-Desert02-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/red-Desert02-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The air is clear so the distant trees look nearer than they truly are.\u00a0\u00a0 The option of a pale grey-green to distance them was ineffective as similar tones on the lit side on nearer trees confused the eye.\u00a0 I tried mauve but that was too pale, so I darkened them with the very lightest touch of umber.<\/p>\n<p>I have also ironed out some of the &#8220;hills&#8221; that had appeared in the background, while the left hand side of the painting is showing the trees\u00a0and the rough, grass-like tufts in more detail .\u00a0 These last sprinkle the desert so that it is scrub rather than sandy desert.\u00a0 The bushes in the middle distance really are that strange shape, but not as flat as they appear here.<\/p>\n<p>More to do as there are some light tonal values in the wrong place.\u00a0 In fact I never know when the painting is finished until I get there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now to introduce some detail.\u00a0 The initial painting has given me the essential painting, and it is possible to leave it at that.\u00a0 That feels like the easy way out &#8211; insufficient rigour.\u00a0 Right now, I want tidy up and tighten up, do justice to the huge impression this enormous red desert made on me.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Desert continued&#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\/1179"}],"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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}