{"id":306,"date":"2017-02-14T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=306"},"modified":"2017-02-13T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:23:28","slug":"the-finished-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"The finished portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here it is.\u00a0 I am almost sure I have finished.\u00a0 I will put it up in the studio for a week or two before I sign it in case something jumps out at me.\u00a0 I have to say his eyes look very strange in the photo, but not in the painting itself. \u00a0 A critique from a friend would be useful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MyFriends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-310\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MyFriends-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MyFriends-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MyFriends-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MyFriends.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 85vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However &#8211; there is always an however &#8211; I am dissatisfied that I couldn&#8217;t make more of it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s OK as far as it goes, not without input from me, especially in the colour sense, but I would like to try again and make it less representational.\u00a0 I think I will try mixed media, using &#8220;Collage, Colour and Texture in Painting&#8221; by Mike Bernard and Robin Capon, mentioned in my New Year post, as my guide.\u00a0 I am hoping to make something with more atmosphere, more mystery, something less obvious.\u00a0 This will not be a quick exercise as I will be well into personally uncharted territory.\u00a0 Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here it is.\u00a0 I am almost sure I have finished.\u00a0 I will put it up in the studio for a week or two before I sign it in case something jumps out at me.\u00a0 I have to say his eyes look very strange in the photo, but not in the painting itself. \u00a0 A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The finished portrait&#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\/306"}],"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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}