{"id":1389,"date":"2020-09-10T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2020-08-28T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:41:39","slug":"koala-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Koala &#8211; sort of!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Koala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1388\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Koala-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Koala-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Koala-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Koala.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 85vw, 414px\" \/><\/a>I have to say, I&#8217;m rather pleased with this.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t look much like a Koala &#8211; the eye is too big for the size of the head &#8211;\u00a0 more of a rat or squirrel with long hairy ears, but the loose style, especially for an animal, is a new achievement for me.\u00a0 The beast, whatever it is, looks alive! \u00a0 I&#8217;d never have got here if it hadn&#8217;t been for the experimentation I&#8217;ve been doing lately.\u00a0 My thanks to Mike Wildridge and Jean Haines.<\/p>\n<p>I started with the eye and sighted the nose from there.\u00a0 A little modelling to join them up, just light spots of colour whisked away by wetted brush.\u00a0 Next I tried to define the shape of the head at the top, again whisking the rather darker paint away following the fall of the hair on the ears.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve lost his chin (Hazel Soan: form first then texture, why don&#8217;t I remember?) and needed to resort to Opaque White to find his ruff, but it is certainly worth another go.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent example of my new mantra, &#8220;If you want to paint loosely, you must learn to draw accurately&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m rather pleased with this.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t look much like a Koala &#8211; the eye is too big for the size of the head &#8211;\u00a0 more of a rat or squirrel with long hairy ears, but the loose style, especially for an animal, is a new achievement for me.\u00a0 The beast, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Koala &#8211; sort of!&#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\/1389"}],"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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}