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<\/a><\/p>\nFirst we painted flowers in a glass vase.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can’t see it but my flowers were too small at first.\u00a0 This is easy to correct using a palette knife so my variable drawing skills are not too intrusive.\u00a0 This is a good tool for both flowers and vase, as well as mountains.<\/p>\n
Then I was back in my comfort zone, painting indoors from photos! and it shows!<\/p>\n
It wasn’t raining heavily on our final day, but a thick mist blanketed the landscape, and we had to paint indoors. First we painted flowers in a glass vase.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can’t see it but my flowers were too small at first.\u00a0 This is easy to correct using a palette knife so my variable drawing skills … Continue reading “Keswick – a final flourish”<\/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\/1476"}],"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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>These views are taken from postcards, so I needed to reduce the intense blue of the skies.\u00a0 Photographers like the mirror image in the lake, but I don’t, so I have blurred it;\u00a0 I created the mirror image, then swept the flat of the knife down from the water’s edge.\u00a0 By using the flat rather than the edge, most of the applied paint remained on the canvas.\u00a0 (I’d used the edge to scrap off disasters many times).<\/p>\n<\/a>This one pleased me. I’d worked out how to use the direction of stroke with suitably applied tone and colour to give the distant slopes sweep and varied vegetation.\u00a0 Inside, colour mixing\u00a0 returned to normal – very strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"