{"id":650,"date":"2018-04-03T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=650"},"modified":"2018-04-02T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T12:34:06","slug":"black-and-white-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Black and White progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BlackWhite2-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-647\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BlackWhite2--290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BlackWhite2--290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BlackWhite2--145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BlackWhite2-.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 85vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>I am finding this a very satisfying project despite the lack of colour.\u00a0 I must admit I am aching to introduce colour but this is a tonal exercise so I&#8217;ll stick to black and white.<\/p>\n<p>I have made a bit more of the distant cottage and even more distant trees, so I must concentrate on the garden in the foreground.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very dark in the the photo, but I have invested in a very portable LED light so can see more of the subtle shading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/black-and-white-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-653\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/black-and-white-3-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/black-and-white-3-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/black-and-white-3-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/black-and-white-3-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/black-and-white-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>I have pushed those shades to a more extreme point, since I am not yet able to create them as they are.\u00a0 However, I think what I have done is reasonably OK.\u00a0 Choosing when and how to introduce White is exercising my mind somewhat!\u00a0\u00a0 And the sky as a great blank &#8211; is that all right or will I need to add a cloud?<\/p>\n<p>No decision yet so I continued to eat away<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-white-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-654\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-white-3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-white-3-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-white-3-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-white-3-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-white-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 85vw, 197px\" \/><\/a> at the garden to see what happened.\u00a0 This is very uncharted territory for me.\u00a0 I may have overdone the white, so I&#8217;ll use it a bit more sparingly now.\u00a0 The bit that&#8217;s left is more shadowed anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finding this a very satisfying project despite the lack of colour.\u00a0 I must admit I am aching to introduce colour but this is a tonal exercise so I&#8217;ll stick to black and white. I have made a bit more of the distant cottage and even more distant trees, so I must concentrate on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black and White progress&#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\/650"}],"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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}