{"id":1318,"date":"2020-06-25T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2020-06-25T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:53:42","slug":"sitting-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

When faced with a containing image like this – all the action is under the pergola – the instinct is to draw in the pergola first, so as to set the parameters of the image.\u00a0 The same thing happens when the image is a vase of flowers.\u00a0 You put the vase in first.\u00a0 I don’t advise it!\u00a0\u00a0 It is actually a very unhelpful thing to do.<\/p>\n

The focus of the picture is the people (or the flowers), so you start with them and show only as much of the “container” as you need.\u00a0 If you do this you will find your picture comes under your hand more easily.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was interested in the negative shape between the figure and the pillar, so my first mark was the lower part of the pillar.\u00a0 The pillar base and his behind gave me the top of the wall, thence to his legs and the small step he has his feet on.\u00a0 These are strong marks with no attempt at modelling.\u00a0 There is light around but he is practically in silhouette.\u00a0 His height gave me the height of the pillar and the beginnings of the pergola.\u00a0 I have lightened the spar that is further away to lessen the impact of the two very straight lines across the paper, and “grown” the wisteria a little bit which also breaks up the line.<\/p>\n

The very bright sunset will be framed by the figures, as his three friends are close to the other pillar, taking his photo. \u00a0\u00a0 I intend to lighten, indeed may only partially insert, the spars of the pergola as they cross the bright sun.\u00a0 Looking directly at a bright light can have that effect,\u00a0 and it’s a useful way of dealing with a fence, wall, or hedge that is blocking\u00a0 access to the painting. \u00a0\u00a0 I’ve done just that in one of the Bridges, the Holt\/Farndon \u00a0 bypass.<\/p>\n

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When faced with a containing image like this – all the action is under the pergola – the instinct is to draw in the pergola first, so as to set the parameters of the image.\u00a0 The same thing happens when the image is a vase of flowers.\u00a0 You put the vase in first.\u00a0 I don’t … Continue reading “Sitting on the wall”<\/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\/1318"}],"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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}