{"id":659,"date":"2018-04-10T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=659"},"modified":"2018-04-09T23:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:39:24","slug":"the-bridge-at-carrog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"The bridge at Carrog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Carrog-unfinished.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-658\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Carrog-unfinished-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Carrog-unfinished-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Carrog-unfinished-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Carrog-unfinished.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 85vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was looking through my portfolio, searching for paintings I might want to frame, when I came across this unfinished pastel of Carrog Bridge.\u00a0 It was begun as a demonstration piece on using pastels, done about the time I was painting all those bridges of the Dee.\u00a0 This is not the view which made it into the book, but it&#8217;s still a good composition.<\/p>\n<p>The tonal blocks were laid in a pleasing (to me!) chunky manner, so that the scene was revealed in its essentials within an hour or so.\u00a0 There is rich colouring in the stonework of the bridge itself, while the pattern of darks and lights in the trees is lively, invigorating even.\u00a0 A sweep of a pastel announced the reflections.\u00a0 With all that in place, I had then started on the details on the houses.\u00a0 I must suppose that time had run out then, but I think there is a good basis for\u00a0 further work should time allow.\u00a0 It will be a new experience to paint a Dee bridge as a stand alone image, and it has\u00a0 encouraged me to re-visit my photographic archive to see what other treasures I can find.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I was looking through my portfolio, searching for paintings I might want to frame, when I came across this unfinished pastel of Carrog Bridge.\u00a0 It was begun as a demonstration piece on using pastels, done about the time I was painting all those bridges of the Dee.\u00a0 This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The bridge at Carrog&#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\/659"}],"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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}