{"id":498,"date":"2017-09-19T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:17:46","slug":"meander-treasures-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Meander Treasures 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting a bit fed up painting portraits with a black background.\u00a0 I had managed dark brown in the Shrimp Girl but this time I&#8217;ve managed blue!<\/p>\n<p>This is from a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been called &#8220;Le Chapeau de Paille&#8221; though the hat isn&#8217;t straw at all.\u00a0 Rubens girl is shy, indeed rather timid.\u00a0 My lassie is altogether more knowing, and older, so I may have another go at her, time permitting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Girl-in-a-straw-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Girl-in-a-straw-hat-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Girl-in-a-straw-hat-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Girl-in-a-straw-hat-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Girl-in-a-straw-hat.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 85vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>I like the tilt of the hat, the touch of pink and the blue background but the modelling on face (almost non-existent in the original painting) is heavy.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why it appears to be blotchy in the photo, but it seems smoother in actuality.\u00a0 Maybe if I wash out the face and try again, I&#8217;ll do better.<\/p>\n<p>However, the next copy portrait I am going to attempt is Van Gogh&#8217;s Old Peasant &#8211; a truly cheery picture,\u00a0 and I&#8217;m keen to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting a bit fed up painting portraits with a black background.\u00a0 I had managed dark brown in the Shrimp Girl but this time I&#8217;ve managed blue! This is from a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been called &#8220;Le Chapeau de Paille&#8221; though the hat isn&#8217;t straw at all.\u00a0 Rubens girl is shy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meander Treasures 3&#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\/498"}],"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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}