{"id":1253,"date":"2020-04-09T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:25:28","slug":"in-the-sunshine-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"In the sunshine &#8211; at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what it looks like now.\u00a0 And I declare it finished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-end.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1255\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-end-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-end-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-end-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-end-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-end.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 85vw, 434px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a far cry from its beginnings way back in May 2017.\u00a0 I remember enjoying returning to a big canvas &#8211; 4 ft tall and 3 ft wide.\u00a0 It&#8217;s drifted out of focus as life took over.\u00a0 There is a big gap in working on this between September 2017 and September 2019.\u00a0 That I don&#8217;t remember, though I do remember the doldrums when no paintings worked.\u00a0\u00a0 Then\u00a0 it received a huge boost when I was able to photograph the pair on the spot myself, relaxing in the June sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NG01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-402 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NG01-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NG01-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NG01-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NG01-789x1024.jpg 789w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NG01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 85vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Here is how I started it just after my successful exhibition of &#8220;The Bridges of Dee&#8221; &#8211; the book is still available if anyone would like one, see the website &#8211; so there is a certain feeling of freedom about it all. Trawling through the blog posts about it was instructive for me as well as entertaining.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Keep right on till the end&#8221;\u00a0 has done me proud here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what it looks like now.\u00a0 And I declare it finished. It&#8217;s a far cry from its beginnings way back in May 2017.\u00a0 I remember enjoying returning to a big canvas &#8211; 4 ft tall and 3 ft wide.\u00a0 It&#8217;s drifted out of focus as life took over.\u00a0 There is a big gap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the sunshine &#8211; at last!&#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\/1253"}],"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=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}