{"id":492,"date":"2017-09-12T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=492"},"modified":"2017-09-12T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T07:06:39","slug":"meander-book-treasures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Meander Book Treasures 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-353 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lady-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lady-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lady-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Lady.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Do you remember this lady?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good while since I attempted to do some portrait &#8220;treasures&#8221; for my meander book.\u00a0 The small size is a good focus, however, and a chance to paint in watercolour again.<\/p>\n<p>I am bothered about the faces in my &#8220;big&#8221; picture, trying to work out how much detail I need to put in them.\u00a0 Then I remembered William Hogarth&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8220;The Shrimp Girl&#8221;.\u00a0 The vitality of her face is caught with so few brush strokes.\u00a0 I felt sure she would aid me in my dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>So, I made her the next &#8220;treasure&#8221;, knowing that the close observation required to paint her in minature\u00a0 would be a great study.\u00a0 I made a careful drawing, just enough to delineate the areas of tone, then, using very dilute Sepia I washed the paper except for her face and frilly cap. A light wash of dilute Burnt Sienna over the face completed this stage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-Shrimp-girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-495\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-Shrimp-girl-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-Shrimp-girl-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-Shrimp-girl-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-Shrimp-girl.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shrimp Girl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I darkened the underside of her tray, her hood and hair, leaving thin strips where the light catches the edges.\u00a0 She has a rosy glow to her face except where it is in the shadow of her tray, and her clothes also show warmth, so in with Burnt Sienna\u00a0 touched by Permanent Rose. \u00a0 Her eyes are very simply done, just a flick of dark added to the dark irises and a very slight shadow under the eye.\u00a0 Her happy smile is really only two tiny blobs joined by a line.\u00a0 Add blue for the shadows in her white cap and on the &#8220;shrimp&#8221; measure at the front of her tray, and she is done.\u00a0 She looks more modern than Hogarth&#8217;s girl, and I&#8217;ve managed to tilt her head slightly so she doesn&#8217;t look quite so happy.\u00a0 Evenso, I have to say I&#8217;m pleased with her.\u00a0 As a bonus, those &#8220;big&#8221; faces look more manageable now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember this lady?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good while since I attempted to do some portrait &#8220;treasures&#8221; for my meander book.\u00a0 The small size is a good focus, however, and a chance to paint in watercolour again. I am bothered about the faces in my &#8220;big&#8221; picture, trying to work out how much detail I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meander Book Treasures 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\/492"}],"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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}