{"id":1341,"date":"2020-07-23T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2020-07-20T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T07:31:03","slug":"canoeing-katherine-gorge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Canoeing &#8211; Katherine Gorge 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water makes such a difference, providing both context and contrast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Katherine-gorge-canoeing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1340\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Katherine-gorge-canoeing-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Katherine-gorge-canoeing-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Katherine-gorge-canoeing-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Katherine-gorge-canoeing.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 85vw, 415px\" \/><\/a>You can see the depth of the overhang and the scale of the cliff in comparison to the canoeists.\u00a0 The overhang casts a very strong shadow, the counterchange with the cliff making it appear even stronger.\u00a0 The water is in shadow too, the only relief there being the canoe itself.<\/p>\n<p>The palette is very restricted, only Prussian Blue and Cadmium Red, their pale presence visible in the cliff face.\u00a0 These two, mixed richly together give a vibrant black.\u00a0 Dilute the mix and you get varying greys and browns.\u00a0\u00a0 The river was created by wetting the area, avoiding the canoe and people, then adding a strong Prussian Blue stroke where it meets the cliff.\u00a0 The Prussian Blue bled into the watery glaze, lightening as it went.\u00a0 Just before it dried, I ran strong Cadmium Red into the Strong Prussian Blue, that bled just enough to blacken the area under the cliff, but not advance into the lighter water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water makes such a difference, providing both context and contrast. You can see the depth of the overhang and the scale of the cliff in comparison to the canoeists.\u00a0 The overhang casts a very strong shadow, the counterchange with the cliff making it appear even stronger.\u00a0 The water is in shadow too, the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canoeing &#8211; Katherine Gorge 2&#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\/1341"}],"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=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}