{"id":363,"date":"2017-04-25T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=363"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:03:06","slug":"black-and-white-and-colour-mark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"(Black and White) and Colour Mark 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-368\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-1-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-1-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-1-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I decided that the best thing to do was introduce one colour at a time and see what happened.\u00a0 Orange was my first choice, a good, strong, cheerful colour.\u00a0 That&#8217;s him near the middle of the canvas.\u00a0 Now orange partners well with turquoises and blues, so I tentatively surrounded my orange tile with bluish ones trying always to keep to the tones in my corresponding reference. The lemon yellow tile was my next offering, which in turn suggested a grey-green.\u00a0 I used this on quite a number of tiles on the left hand side, though I think the sharper green tiles are a mistake, taking too far from my original blues.<\/p>\n<p>Then I stood back and looked at it for a while.\u00a0 The juxtaposition of oranges blues and greens made me think of a fish pond\u00a0 so I explored that idea by introducing textures on some of the tiles.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-370\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-detail-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-detail-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-detail-150x56.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fishpond-detail.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 There are some ripples on the blue tiles and some scaly shapes on the orange ones.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think the detail should dominate or over-complicate matters, and I haven&#8217;t worked out what sort of detail I should suggest on the green Lilypad!\u00a0 Work in Progress!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that the best thing to do was introduce one colour at a time and see what happened.\u00a0 Orange was my first choice, a good, strong, cheerful colour.\u00a0 That&#8217;s him near the middle of the canvas.\u00a0 Now orange partners well with turquoises and blues, so I tentatively surrounded my orange tile with bluish ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Black and White) and Colour Mark 2&#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\/363"}],"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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}