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<\/a>It’s so much more exciting than painting trees and makes for a more integrated picture –\u00a0 concentrated work, especially if one starts without drawing.\u00a0 With something like this, atmosphere wins over accuracy, so drawing is not necessary.\u00a0 In any case, being an oil painting, anything “wrong” can be scrapped off or painted out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I felt the image was a little “cold” so I introduced the Burnt Sienna unmixed with blue on one of the trunks and on the ground.\u00a0 I also warmed up some of the darks by making them more brown than blue.<\/p>\n
This is the fascinating stage, “fishing” for the picture.\u00a0 By dint of adding true darks and some lights, the image is called from the background. The underpainting supplies the mystery, while various splodges deepen shadows or splash the light.\u00a0 It is essential that nothing is created whole, superimposed on the background.\u00a0 Just by pushing and … Continue reading “Emerging …”<\/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\/1195"}],"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=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The greens in the foreground are quite bright,\u00a0 but I didn’t want to do them too soon.\u00a0 More pale, more muted\u00a0 greens make a good base for brighter colours and add to the variety of tone which in turn adds interest to the picture.\u00a0 Sometimes I have darkened the background allowing the underpainting to provide the trunks, a great way to create an impenetrable forest!\u00a0 still lots to do – and I haven’t even started on the foreground yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"