{"id":1351,"date":"2020-08-13T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:14:29","slug":"waterfall-brecon-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Waterfall – Brecon Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a very busy scene with three waterfalls, a dark cave, spring sunshine and a very rock-strewn stream.\u00a0 This is my third attempt – one, a disaster, two, Disneyland, three, flattered by the photograph!\u00a0 From choice, I would have painted this in pastel, either soft pastel or oil ones giving help to the many textures.\u00a0 But it was the subject of my second Zoom lesson, so watercolour it had to be.<\/p>\n

In this one, I began with the sunlit rocky hillside, dropping in the ochres, siennas and muted greens.\u00a0 Then I introduced more detail with stronger versions of those colours and finally laid in the darks to give form.\u00a0\u00a0 On the cave side, the introductory washes were darker, as you can see on the nearer rock face.\u00a0\u00a0 After it had dried, I re-wet the part where the cave was going to be, being careful to give a crisp edge on the right hand side.\u00a0 At that point I dropped in very strong Indigo, letting it bleed into the wetted area and introducing Burnt Sienna, then Raw Sienna as the paint moved to the\u00a0 left.<\/p>\n

At this stage I thought I was heading for Attempt Four,\u00a0 but before I despaired, I put in the water, and life got better.\u00a0\u00a0 The form of the central rock went in using ochres and Ultramarine Blue, the exposed stream bed\u00a0 being muted tones of the same colours.\u00a0 Dry brush strokes gave depth to the falls, and I will admit to white gouache to save the day in places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a very busy scene with three waterfalls, a dark cave, spring sunshine and a very rock-strewn stream.\u00a0 This is my third attempt – one, a disaster, two, Disneyland, three, flattered by the photograph!\u00a0 From choice, I would have painted this in pastel, either soft pastel or oil ones giving help to the many … Continue reading “Waterfall – Brecon Beacons”<\/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\/1351"}],"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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}