{"id":1439,"date":"2020-10-01T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:54:05","slug":"koala-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Koala – perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought the first attempt at a Koala had much going for it, but it didn’t look like a Koala, so I tried again.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As you can see, I attempted the same loose style.\u00a0 This is the best way I know for learning how to judge the water\/paint ratio.\u00a0 You start with a mark of strongly toned paint then use water to guide it where you want it to go.\u00a0 If the mark is in the wrong place, you can heavily dilute it to make it vanish, while the addition of more strongly toned paint will restore or increase the required contrast.\u00a0 The very visible brush marks add movement\u00a0 and\u00a0 continually dampening the edges softens them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This painting does look more like a Koala, but it has lost the energy of the first attempt, repeated here for comparison.\u00a0 I know Koalas are reputed to be sleepy animals, though the first one I saw was galloping round its enclosure in a real strop!\u00a0\u00a0 However, a painting needs its own energy to connect with the viewer.\u00a0 This is the perennial problem of repeating a painting.\u00a0 I rarely achieve a truly satisfying result at the second attempt.\u00a0 Correction – I never achieve a truly satisfying result at the second attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought the first attempt at a Koala had much going for it, but it didn’t look like a Koala, so I tried again. As you can see, I attempted the same loose style.\u00a0 This is the best way I know for learning how to judge the water\/paint ratio.\u00a0 You start with a mark of … Continue reading “Koala – perhaps”<\/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\/1439"}],"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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}