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<\/a><\/p>\nI discovered I can’t paint happily with my pad on my knees.\u00a0 I need a wall or an easel as support.\u00a0 My quick sketch was more lively.\u00a0 The sketch was done in situ in pen, and the paint added later.<\/p>\n
The nearest town, walled, of course, is Fivizzano, and we spent the day there.\u00a0 There was a fairly busy, fully masked, market in the town square where I did my least successful painting, in fact I didn’t even finish it, not because I was dissatisfied but because I ran out of time!\u00a0\u00a0 The photo enhances … Continue reading “More Italian Sun”<\/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\/1405"}],"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=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>After lunch we migrated to the city walls, and attempted the valley below.\u00a0 Here I had a wall to rest on so was able to work more comfortably.\u00a0 It was a difficult view for me with my very young drawing skills, looking down on all those lines and angles, though right up our tutor’s street!\u00a0 I still found mixing colour problematic, forgetting all my knowledge about aerial perspective, never mind wrestling with the terrestrial kind.\u00a0\u00a0 Gradually I dredged up my old skills.\u00a0 Painting out of doors is not just a matter of turning up and painting the view.\u00a0 Even the things I do almost instinctively when in the studio have to be adjusted to changing light and unhelpful colourings.\u00a0 But some kind of satisfaction was achieved.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"