{"id":557,"date":"2017-11-21T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=557"},"modified":"2017-11-18T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:58:31","slug":"more-pencilwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"More Pencilwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was so pleased with the pencil work results that I finished the painting!\u00a0 In fact, I liked it so much that I signed it.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am enjoying the quiet, steady, progress of the painting technique – I can’t believe I wrote that – it fits so well with the time and place in which I can paint and I am discovering new\u00a0 aspects of myself.\u00a0 I had not thought that the prejudices I had overcome when painting for “The Bridges of Dee” would be followed so quickly by the collapse, the total collapse, of my fear of pencil drawing.\u00a0 Looking back, I see that “fear” is the right word.\u00a0 I am only in the foothills but this is\u00a0 a mountain worth conquering.\u00a0 Finally I can lay out in free hand a preparatory sketch\u00a0 before painting, and I am sure that as I practise this new skill, that freedom will translate to my brush and pastel.<\/p>\n

What have I learnt so far ?\u00a0 If a pale wash is wanted, certainly on hot pressed paper, scrubbing the pencil on a spare bit of paper and lifting the colour on a wet brush is working satisfactorily (the sky); texture and detail can be indicated at will and either left to speak for itself or melded with the painting by a wash of water (the distant hill and the hay field); more graduation of tone came be achieved by mixing the wet paint on the paper\u00a0 (the bushes); this can then be worked on to introduce more texture; very deep tones have come by working directly into wetted paper with\u00a0 the pencil.<\/p>\n

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I was so pleased with the pencil work results that I finished the painting!\u00a0 In fact, I liked it so much that I signed it. I am enjoying the quiet, steady, progress of the painting technique – I can’t believe I wrote that – it fits so well with the time and place in which … Continue reading “More Pencilwork”<\/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\/557"}],"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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}