{"id":328,"date":"2017-03-28T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=328"},"modified":"2017-03-20T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T08:50:15","slug":"working-on-my-drawing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Working on my drawing skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember I made a New Year&#8217;s resolution to draw every day.\u00a0 The not unexpected news is that I haven&#8217;t done that, but I have done some drawing.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that the best way of ensuring that at least some was done, was to start my classes by arranging that my students, (and therefore me!) did a ten minute sketch at the beginning of each session.\u00a0 We would work in biro so that we were not distracted by rubbing out, and no one need show their work to me or anyone else unless they wanted to.\u00a0 There is a lot of apprehension for many people when drawing is mentioned and I wanted to make the whole practice as pleasant as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the things we drew.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Class are enjoying their mini drawing sessions, and we all find that we are looking more analytically as we draw.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think my drawing as improved yet, it&#8217;s early days after all, but I do find I have more willingness to draw for painting without employing any of the &#8220;crutches&#8221;\u00a0 I have used in the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Time-for-tea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-336\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Time-for-tea-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Time-for-tea-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Time-for-tea-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Time-for-tea.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time for tea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pepper-and-salt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-333\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pepper-and-salt-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pepper-and-salt-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pepper-and-salt-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pepper-and-salt.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 85vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pepper and salt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-little-chair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-334\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-little-chair-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-little-chair-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-little-chair-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-little-chair.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 85vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The little chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember I made a New Year&#8217;s resolution to draw every day.\u00a0 The not unexpected news is that I haven&#8217;t done that, but I have done some drawing. I thought that the best way of ensuring that at least some was done, was to start my classes by arranging that my students, (and therefore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working on my drawing skills&#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\/328"}],"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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}