{"id":1540,"date":"2021-02-04T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:51:18","slug":"the-eyes-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"The eyes have it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working on my portrait of Higgy, I thought that separate practise of eyes, noses and mouths might help me create a living face.\u00a0 The medium is watercolour pencils, since I can use them in any room in the house. There is also the possibility that they would militate against being too detailed.\u00a0 My collection is for landscapes so I have a limited choice and that may be a good thing as\u00a0 well.\u00a0 So here are some of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Eyes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1542\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Eyes-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Eyes-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Eyes-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Eyes.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 85vw, 461px\" \/><\/a>These are all taken from photographs, since the only model I have at present is me, and there is a limit to how long I want to look at me, even when in analytical mode.<\/p>\n<p>The colouring is crude since I haven&#8217;t used the pencils enough to get the measure of them. Number three looks like two different people, or a fellow with a slowly closing black eye!\u00a0 But what I have learnt is that I usually try to put in too much detail and that life comes not from micro-accuracy, but from a few well observed shapes.\u00a0 I have promised myself to try again in watercolour paint, and in oils, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working on my portrait of Higgy, I thought that separate practise of eyes, noses and mouths might help me create a living face.\u00a0 The medium is watercolour pencils, since I can use them in any room in the house. There is also the possibility that they would militate against being too detailed.\u00a0 My collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The eyes have it!&#8221;<\/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\/1540"}],"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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}