{"id":1190,"date":"2020-01-23T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2020-01-22T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:41:22","slug":"forest-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Forest beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Darwin-forest-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1192\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Darwin-forest-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Darwin-forest-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Darwin-forest-01-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Darwin-forest-01-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Darwin-forest-01-747x1024.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 85vw, 449px\" \/><\/a>Back to oil painting!\u00a0 Believe it or not, this is a good start to my next painting &#8211;\u00a0 an underpainting using very dilute oil paint, suggesting the tonal layout of a forest glade near Darwin.\u00a0 A very user-friendly\u00a0 part of the forest, I hasten to add, but by cutting out the helpful board-walk, I achieve something a little wilder.<\/p>\n<p>I have restricted my palette to Prussian Blue, Raw Sienna and Burnt Sienna, since these will give me the colours and tones needed.\u00a0 I may add others later as the picture progresses, perhaps purples and crimsons in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>Using dilute colour makes for a very loose beginning while giving great intensity to the painted surface.\u00a0 Any misplaced runs can easily be covered.\u00a0 Allowing the restricted colours to collide\/mix gives texture and interest, and certainly adds to the fun.\u00a0 Deciding which bits to retain and which to obliterate, discovering\u00a0 Serendipity in fact, is bliss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to oil painting!\u00a0 Believe it or not, this is a good start to my next painting &#8211;\u00a0 an underpainting using very dilute oil paint, suggesting the tonal layout of a forest glade near Darwin.\u00a0 A very user-friendly\u00a0 part of the forest, I hasten to add, but by cutting out the helpful board-walk, I achieve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forest beginnings&#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\/1190"}],"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=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}