{"id":662,"date":"2018-04-17T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=662"},"modified":"2018-04-15T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T07:29:22","slug":"black-and-white-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Black and White again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished the garden, I felt I had to do something to the sky.\u00a0 The grey sky and the grey house next to it looked unfinished to me, but it&#8217;s a large area to fill with pencil.\u00a0 At least it seemed so to me.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-White-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-657\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-White-4-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-White-4-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-White-4-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-White-4-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-White-4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 So I tried a cloud.\u00a0 Well,\u00a0 that looked pretty awful.\u00a0 It certainly differentiated the house and sky, but the execution of same cloud is very amateur!\u00a0 No shading &#8211; I didn&#8217;t have a reference &#8211; and I don&#8217;t think clouds do that.<\/p>\n<p>In a bit of a panic &#8211; I&#8217;ve ruined it! &#8211; I tried shading the whole sky in white pencil but a blank white sky was even worse.\u00a0 I even contemplated running a wet brush over the area in an attempt to unify it but this is pastel paper and it would cockle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-White-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-665\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-White-5-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-White-5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-White-5-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-White-5-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Black-and-White-5.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Then I found I could rub out the white pencil to some extent, though not enough to remove it completely.\u00a0 Something would have to be done.\u00a0 Pastel paper equals pastels?\u00a0 And I different medium may mean adding colour.\u00a0 So I tried a soft graduated mauve.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still in two minds about this.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s an improvement on the last two efforts but maybe I should have kept to grey and white.<\/p>\n<p>In the throes of recounting these disasters, I have overlooked the finished garden, and I have to say I am pleased with the way that part has gone.\u00a0 But I am still hovering over changing the sky yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished the garden, I felt I had to do something to the sky.\u00a0 The grey sky and the grey house next to it looked unfinished to me, but it&#8217;s a large area to fill with pencil.\u00a0 At least it seemed so to me.\u00a0 So I tried a cloud.\u00a0 Well,\u00a0 that looked pretty awful.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black and White again&#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\/662"}],"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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}