{"id":395,"date":"2017-05-23T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=395"},"modified":"2017-05-27T07:15:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T06:15:21","slug":"canal-boats-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Canal boats 02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This term my painting group are examining canals as they wanted to improve on trees and water, and I wanted to add\u00a0 some interesting shapes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-boats-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-boats-02-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-boats-02-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-boats-02-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-boats-02.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The second boat painting, in acrylic this time, concentrates on the boats and their reflections.\u00a0 My starting image is a reasonably good composition, though I would want to fade the sheds as they are rather dominant and detract from the collection of narrowboats.<\/p>\n<p>However, my canvas is long and thin, and that encouraged me to crop the image top and bottom and lose most of the boat on the right.\u00a0 This will place the boats and their reflections in sharp focus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-Boats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-393 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-Boats-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-Boats-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-Boats-150x62.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Canal-Boats.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 85vw, 505px\" \/><\/a>When I come to painting, I intend to blur the shed, trees etc using the tones to show or hide the cabins.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all drawn up ready for action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This term my painting group are examining canals as they wanted to improve on trees and water, and I wanted to add\u00a0 some interesting shapes. The second boat painting, in acrylic this time, concentrates on the boats and their reflections.\u00a0 My starting image is a reasonably good composition, though I would want to fade the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canal boats 02&#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\/395"}],"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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}