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<\/a>This took the morning to do, and I was beginning to remember technique though still uncomfortable with too much equipment.\u00a0 The organisation of paint, paint tubes, water pot, brushes,\u00a0 seemed to be a juggling exercise\u00a0 though the easel did improve things.\u00a0 I’m reasonably happy with this painting.\u00a0 The view through the bridge\u00a0 needs sorting.\u00a0 I stopped because I lost concentration.\u00a0 So I’ve learned two things:\u00a0 I need an easel, and two hours is the maximum I can paint for in such a concentrated fashion.<\/p>\nWe visited a town clustered around a castle called Verracola that presented a myriad of painting opportunities.\u00a0 Mike suggested this view, standing with our backs to the castle with the bridge over the stream\/river below us.\u00a0 You could see this becoming a raging torrent in winter, but the colouring was pleasant, the day was warm, … Continue reading “More Italian paintings”<\/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\/1418"}],"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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>That afternoon, after a splendid lunch in a restaurant in Verrucola that opened specially for us, (the outcome of the contacts The Watermill had built over the years), we returned to the Mill to paint a waterfall viewed from the grounds.\u00a0 This was a very different plein air experience! We trekked through a small wood to the river carrying our equipment.\u00a0 The footing was unsure for we were standing on cobbles in the river bed.\u00a0 The easel stood sensibly as the legs were adjustable but juggling everything else (I still had too much!) and doing a sensible painting\u00a0 took some determination – not easy after a morning’s concentrated painting and a good lunch.\u00a0 Then it started to rain, and in good earnest, so we retired to the studio.\u00a0 The trees kept most of the rain off so we weren’t drenched.\u00a0 The watercolour elves have been at this one, which improved as I slept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"