{"id":596,"date":"2018-01-23T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=596"},"modified":"2018-01-18T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T10:40:24","slug":"windermere-clouds-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Windermere Clouds &#8211; finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had so enjoyed painting this scene that it seemed imperative to finish it.\u00a0 There was not a lot to do\u00a0 &#8211; half an hour might do it.\u00a0 In the event it took three half hours but I am pleased enough to sign it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/windermere-clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/windermere-clouds-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/windermere-clouds-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/windermere-clouds-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/windermere-clouds.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love the way the sunlight brightens the fells.\u00a0 It looks like the rain has just passed over towards the right of the picture and the little yachts are enjoying light breezes.\u00a0 Autumn is fast approaching\u00a0 &#8211; the colour in the trees tells you that.<\/p>\n<p>It works as a composition too.\u00a0 The clouds seem to come together in the middle, then the eye follows the distant hills down to the fells which dip into a tiny valley.\u00a0 Then the break in the trees takes you to the water.\u00a0 The sails are just enough to break the horizontal\u00a0 line of the shore.\u00a0 I just noticed that the whole picture divides into approximate thirds! Boats and dip in the trees on the vertical ones and shoreline and the bottom of the clouds on the horizontal ones.\u00a0 Serendipity rules!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so enjoyed painting this scene that it seemed imperative to finish it.\u00a0 There was not a lot to do\u00a0 &#8211; half an hour might do it.\u00a0 In the event it took three half hours but I am pleased enough to sign it. I love the way the sunlight brightens the fells.\u00a0 It looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windermere Clouds &#8211; finished!&#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\/596"}],"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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}