{"id":533,"date":"2017-10-24T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=533"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:23:04","slug":"elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-535\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephants-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephants-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephants-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/elephants.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 85vw, 583px\" \/><\/a>I am thinking about making a Meander book as a Christmas present, containing paintings of photos my friend brought back from India.\u00a0 The &#8220;pockets&#8221; need suitable decoration as well, so I thought Indian elephants might make an agreeable motif.\u00a0 This is my first practice of that theme.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to say is that I actually enjoyed the process!\u00a0 Thanks to all that drawing practice the basic sketches went down quickly and reasonably accurately &#8211; always a confidence builder.\u00a0 I have limited my palette to Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Red and Indanthrene Blue which produced some wonderful mixes.\u00a0 I think I need to be more bold in laying down colour =- some of the early washes were rather pasty!\u00a0 But I am happy with these first attempts, and shall continue with more elephants just for fun.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t think this motif will work for the project I have in mind.\u00a0 Maybe more stylised images dressed overall may be more in keeping as a design.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thinking about making a Meander book as a Christmas present, containing paintings of photos my friend brought back from India.\u00a0 The &#8220;pockets&#8221; need suitable decoration as well, so I thought Indian elephants might make an agreeable motif.\u00a0 This is my first practice of that theme. The first thing to say is that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elephants&#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\/533"}],"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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}