{"id":1376,"date":"2020-09-03T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2020-08-26T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:59:03","slug":"__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"The Ghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1378\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan-01-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan-01-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan-01-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan-01-735x1024.jpg 735w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan-01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 85vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>This is altogether a brighter image.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the usual shot of the front and side of the engine, referred to by railway photographers as a &#8220;three quarter wedge&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m using paints fairly new to me, Quinacridone Red and Indanthrene Blue.\u00a0 These are carbon colours, transparent, making a beautiful purple when mixed together.<\/p>\n<p>This time I started with the Engine itself, free hand, straight in with the paint.\u00a0 I wanted the image to be crisp, rising out of the blur of ground, under carriage and sky.\u00a0 Then I sloshed in the sky allowing it to blend with the red as it came towards the ground,\u00a0 thought &#8220;this isn&#8217;t going well!&#8221;, left it to dry and found the watercolour elves had been at it.\u00a0 It has possibilities, after all.<\/p>\n<p>It looks too much like a bus but the vestiges of an undercarriage will help.\u00a0 Neither colour alone will give a very dark tone, but the two mixed together at their most intense are blissful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1385\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan02-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan02-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan02-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan02-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Ghan02.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Working on the dry surface, I tried vigorous strokes of intense blue alone, and mixed with red to give energy to the motion of the train, and completed details of the nose to express the immense height of the beast.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing is not up to scratch but there is some sense of the train arriving at speed.\u00a0 Certainly I have a painting, not a copy of a rather uninspiring photo but I still haven&#8217;t truly understood how to translate such a hard edged image into a painting I&#8217;d want to sign.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m going to try a Koala next.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is altogether a brighter image.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the usual shot of the front and side of the engine, referred to by railway photographers as a &#8220;three quarter wedge&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m using paints fairly new to me, Quinacridone Red and Indanthrene Blue.\u00a0 These are carbon colours, transparent, making a beautiful purple when mixed together. 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