{"id":1445,"date":"2020-11-12T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:43:07","slug":"keswick-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Keswick paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I visited Keswick on an oil painting course, using a palette knife only, en plein air.\u00a0 October can be beautiful, a sort of Indian Summer, but this October wasn’t so.\u00a0 In fact it was very cold and somewhat rainy.\u00a0 This was a transferred holiday from April this year (which was balmy) – a very strange year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Behold my first effort.\u00a0 Bearing in mind that my clothing (inexperience shows) wasn’t adequate, and that rain passed by intermittently, and the thin wind blew straight at us across the lake,\u00a0 I didn’t do too badly.\u00a0 It’s not what was in front of me,\u00a0 and the tonal variation of the trees is poor, but it looks like a rainy mountain.<\/p>\n

The new thing was doing landscape using a palette knife only.\u00a0 I have painted townscapes in the studio using a palette knife, and one landscape impression used as a background for flowers, always with a brush handy for final details if necessary.\u00a0 Manipulating the knife to say what I wanted involved some contortions at first.\u00a0 For instance, this view was relatively friendly to a left-hander, not a problem I had to address using a brush.\u00a0\u00a0 The descending hillside met the lake where a left-hander could create the acute angle\u00a0 comfortably.\u00a0 Increasingly during the course there were “right-handed” views.<\/p>\n

The other interesting “thing” was mixing the right colour and, more important, the right tone, proved surprisingly difficult.\u00a0 This was partly because the chasing clouds changed the tone by the minute, and partly because the general light outside is different.\u00a0 Mixes I confidently used in the studio, were near-misses in the open air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I visited Keswick on an oil painting course, using a palette knife only, en plein air.\u00a0 October can be beautiful, a sort of Indian Summer, but this October wasn’t so.\u00a0 In fact it was very cold and somewhat rainy.\u00a0 This was a transferred holiday from April this year (which was balmy) – a very … Continue reading “Keswick 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\/1445"}],"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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}