{"id":404,"date":"2017-05-30T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=404"},"modified":"2017-05-29T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:29:37","slug":"in-the-sunshine-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"In the Sunshine 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a big painting – it’s nearly as big as me!\u00a0 Now and again, I like to use my shoulders when painting.\u00a0 It’s very satisfying.<\/p>\n

My friends are relaxing on their rooftop terrace not long after they had finished it, so there is a certain amount of relief in their pose.\u00a0 The ceramic pots adorning the pillars are a brilliant turquoise which I am eager to paint.\u00a0 The pillars themselves are built in rough pale stone.\u00a0 The shady garden crowding his shoulder shows dark greens, while the distant landscape is, I’m told, “very Cezanne”, no pressure there, then.<\/p>\n

I am delighted to report that I actually drew this freehand, so my regular sketching is beginning to pay off.\u00a0 When the basic colours and tones were painted in, I saw that I had made both heads too big for their bodies, such a common mistake which I should be able to avoid by this time, and I’m not sure about his legs.\u00a0 I made the necessary adjustment to the heads – oil paints are so forgiving.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This first pass of colour and tone, which took about an hour, sets the painting going and allows gross errors to be eliminated early.\u00a0 Now I can concentrate characterising the differing textures and tones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a big painting – it’s nearly as big as me!\u00a0 Now and again, I like to use my shoulders when painting.\u00a0 It’s very satisfying. My friends are relaxing on their rooftop terrace not long after they had finished it, so there is a certain amount of relief in their pose.\u00a0 The ceramic pots … Continue reading “In the Sunshine 01”<\/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\/404"}],"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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}