{"id":1345,"date":"2020-07-30T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2020-07-27T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T10:53:27","slug":"back-to-oil-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Back to oil painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve returned to oils for this painting.\u00a0 It’s a view of the Yarra upstream of Melbourne and is the type of scene I enjoy painting in oils.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It never ceases to amaze me how much you can say with a\u00a0 mishmash of colours and tones and stroke directions.\u00a0 I do like to get the picture on the canvas as\u00a0 soon as possible for after that,\u00a0 you are only pulling out detail and refining strokes.\u00a0 This took all of 15 minutes. \u00a0\u00a0 It is ” hold your breath and concentrate hard” sort of stuff.<\/p>\n

The trees and bushes are laid in with scribbles of paint matching the tones in my source without worrying about what they represent, aiming for as much variation in colour as I can find, dark over light and vice versa.\u00a0 When I arrived at the water line, brush strokes became strictly vertical, echoing the colours and tones above without being too pedantic about it.\u00a0 Then the bright reeds and a couple of tree trunks were sketched in with a turpsy rag.\u00a0 Reflections of the sky do strike across the water but that’s for a later date.<\/p>\n

The secret is to be as loosely accurate (!) as you can with your tones.\u00a0 You don’t have to be precise about the shapes of the tones, but they should be, broadly speaking, in the right place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve returned to oils for this painting.\u00a0 It’s a view of the Yarra upstream of Melbourne and is the type of scene I enjoy painting in oils. It never ceases to amaze me how much you can say with a\u00a0 mishmash of colours and tones and stroke directions.\u00a0 I do like to get the picture … Continue reading “Back to oil painting”<\/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\/1345"}],"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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}