{"id":1223,"date":"2020-03-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T08:55:08","slug":"rocks-abounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Rocks abounding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to attack the rocks in the foreground …<\/p>\n

The thing to remember here is that it’s not a heap\u00a0 of rocks, but just one, sea-worn\u00a0 rock, so never, in the search for detail, lose sight of\u00a0 that homogeneity. \u00a0 With this in mind, I began by ghosting in the dark shape, using deep blues and purples. Looking at it now, I think I should have included dark greens in there as well.\u00a0 This would have aided the overall colour balance of the painting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Then I began to introduce the details, working across the image.\u00a0 first the strong darks to give shape and strength, then the little lights that contrast and point up the folds and ridges. The rocks are backed on the landward side by reddish sand – I missed out the grassy stretch right at the front as being irrelevant\u00a0 – but when I put that in, and stood back, I found that it upset the whole picture.\u00a0 Dark green rode to the rescue.\u00a0 By overlaying but not entirely obscuring the sandy colour,\u00a0 I achieved another texture and melded the sand into the whole painting.\u00a0 Defining the rocks also included more detailing on the rough water just above them. The more you look, the more you see.<\/p>\n

As you can see, in concentrating on the rocky detail,\u00a0 I have also achieved the semblance of a rocky sea travelling at right angles to the waves!\u00a0 All is not lost. I need to draw together the tones over most of the surface so that there is less contrast, while not losing the little interesting details.\u00a0 I reckon that there is another four to six hours bliss working over the whole painting before reluctantly agreeing with it that it is finished.\u00a0 I find the end\u00a0 arrives quite suddenly, but it always the painting that tells me it is so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to attack the rocks in the foreground … The thing to remember here is that it’s not a heap\u00a0 of rocks, but just one, sea-worn\u00a0 rock, so never, in the search for detail, lose sight of\u00a0 that homogeneity. \u00a0 With this in mind, I began by ghosting in the dark shape, using deep blues … Continue reading “Rocks abounding”<\/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\/1223"}],"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=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}