{"id":476,"date":"2017-08-15T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-08-14T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T22:01:22","slug":"in-the-sunshine-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"In the sunshine 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last time&#8217;s poor effort, I decided to &#8220;play small&#8221; and attempt some detail on the figures.\u00a0 I rather like them the way they are but they do need to be more detailed as they are the focus.\u00a0 Maybe confining myself to a small area will increase my confidence again.\u00a0 So faces and feet are my tasks for this session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Face-and-feet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Face-and-feet-154x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Face-and-feet-154x300.jpg 154w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Face-and-feet-77x150.jpg 77w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Face-and-feet-525x1024.jpg 525w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Face-and-feet.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 154px) 85vw, 154px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t want to put her feet in till I have his leg right.\u00a0 His left leg is too long (or his right leg is too short!) so I tackled that first.\u00a0\u00a0 I re-drew the leg, straightening it and shortening it, making more of the fall of the trousers.\u00a0 It looked better so I ventured in with paint. The foot is rather balletic.\u00a0 However, attempting to insert the other foot showed up my erratic drawing skills.\u00a0 This foot is on the load-bearing leg but putting it centrally, in line with his chin so to speak, left the other foot floating.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated, I turned to her face and am reasonably content with the result<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FaceG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-479\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FaceG-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FaceG-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FaceG-150x125.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FaceG.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> so far.\u00a0\u00a0 Tiny dabs of paint inch the face towards\u00a0 likeness &#8211; not there yet, but enough done to enable me to work on the dress next time, then over to him again.\u00a0 Could do with some serendipity but hard graft may bring it on!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last time&#8217;s poor effort, I decided to &#8220;play small&#8221; and attempt some detail on the figures.\u00a0 I rather like them the way they are but they do need to be more detailed as they are the focus.\u00a0 Maybe confining myself to a small area will increase my confidence again.\u00a0 So faces and feet are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the sunshine 6&#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\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}