{"id":469,"date":"2017-08-01T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=469"},"modified":"2017-07-31T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:00:12","slug":"in-the-sunshine-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"In the sunshine 05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty torrid time for me &#8211; everything I try to paint turns out badly.\u00a0 Watercolour, pastel, even my faithful oils, troup past me, one failure after another.\u00a0 On the bright side &#8211; this has happened before.\u00a0 I reach the stage when I almost decide to give up painting altogether.\u00a0 But I have the memory of other times when everything goes brilliantly, when everything I touch is painting magic.\u00a0 So I don&#8217;t give up&#8230;.. yet.<\/p>\n<p>I have just spent and hour and a half on &#8220;in the sunshine&#8221; and have washed out (with turps) most of what I have done.\u00a0 It seemed to consist of wrong tones in the wrong place, poorly applied paint, light source undetermined, etc., etc..\u00a0 Ugh!\u00a0 About all I have achieved is the correction of the original drawing.\u00a0 Still that&#8217;s better than no progress at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Corrected-Drawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-471\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Corrected-Drawing-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Corrected-Drawing-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Corrected-Drawing-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Corrected-Drawing-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Corrected-Drawing.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>They do look more comfortable now that the posts have something substantial to rest on.\u00a0 The bottom bar of the railings now shows up against the extended floor that has also provided that solidarity for the pillars.\u00a0 Not a lot to show for an hour and a half &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty torrid time for me &#8211; everything I try to paint turns out badly.\u00a0 Watercolour, pastel, even my faithful oils, troup past me, one failure after another.\u00a0 On the bright side &#8211; this has happened before.\u00a0 I reach the stage when I almost decide to give up painting altogether.\u00a0 But I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the sunshine 05&#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\/469"}],"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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}