{"id":1284,"date":"2020-05-14T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:57:33","slug":"homage-to-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1286\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Hat-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Hat-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Hat-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Hat-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Hat.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 85vw, 347px\" \/><\/a>I was quite taken with the effectiveness of the directional strokes in the last painting and they led me naturally to Vincent Van Gogh.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve attempted to copy his painting of the old peasant in his straw hat and blue smock twice, once in oils to try and work out how he painted (there is such vigour, such vitality in his brush strokes, and it&#8217;s not so easy to do as it looks), and once in watercolour (!) as part of my Meander Treasures (September 2017).\u00a0\u00a0 And I had a photo of A Hat &#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example of so little saying so much.\u00a0\u00a0 Like Van Gogh, I have eliminated all background detail, and attempted no variation in tone either, the perfect foil for a simple image.\u00a0 The hat and sunglasses, face, scarf and blouse are all simple shapes in block colour.\u00a0\u00a0 A warm, browny-red background thrusts the figure forward and sings beautifully with\u00a0 cool greens and blue\/white.\u00a0 Lilac cream hat and green scarf\u00a0 frame the half shadowed face.\u00a0 Despite the eyes being lost in shadow (I didn&#8217;t even attempt them), there is no doubt she is looking at you in a friendly fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-change, the contrast of strongly dark and light tones invest the image with a presence of its own.\u00a0 It ate up a lot of oil pastel, but I&#8217;m not repining, for I find to my surprise that this is a good medium to work in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was quite taken with the effectiveness of the directional strokes in the last painting and they led me naturally to Vincent Van Gogh.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve attempted to copy his painting of the old peasant in his straw hat and blue smock twice, once in oils to try and work out how he painted (there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homage to Vincent&#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\/1284"}],"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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}