{"id":622,"date":"2018-02-27T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=622"},"modified":"2018-02-26T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:29:20","slug":"farndon-cottages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Farndon Cottages 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We are making progress! As you can see,\u00a0 I have done some work on the white cottages on the left of the picture.\u00a0 I’m still painting loosely, indicating rather than defining.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the underpainting is showing through particularly near the guttering.\u00a0 The roofs are tiled rather than slate, so that zing of red balances the warm tones on the wall under the timber framed cottage.\u00a0 I put in the car – fortuitously it was there when I took my photographs – for I think it gives life and warmth to the painting.\u00a0 It won’t be quite so “important” when I’ve finished, but, after all,\u00a0 villages are lived in.\u00a0 And I found a fence I hadn’t noticed.\u00a0\u00a0 All those diagonal lines should lead the eye to the church tower, but maybe the whiteness of the cottages enhanced by the red roofs can win the day.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Now it was the turn of that tower and the building\"\"<\/a>s in the background.\u00a0 It makes a rather charming picture on its own!\u00a0 I have used a small brush and added dabs of “near miss” colour to trees, houses and the tower, keeping the same tonal value.\u00a0 This just breaks up the surface so adds interest without drawing huge attention to itself.\u00a0 Only when someone stays to look more carefully will such detail be noticed, giving secret pleasure.\u00a0 It’s a sort of reward\u00a0 for stopping to look at my painting; and it’s reward to me for I take such pleasure myself in painting like this.<\/p>\n

There’s lots more to do, about another 4 hours I reckon, so further progress will be slow but satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are making progress! As you can see,\u00a0 I have done some work on the white cottages on the left of the picture.\u00a0 I’m still painting loosely, indicating rather than defining.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the underpainting is showing through particularly near the guttering.\u00a0 The roofs are tiled rather than slate, so that zing of red balances … Continue reading “Farndon Cottages 2”<\/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\/622"}],"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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}