{"id":668,"date":"2018-04-24T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=668"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T11:09:54","slug":"line-and-wash-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Line and Wash 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/po-Window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-670\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/po-Window-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/po-Window-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/po-Window-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/po-Window.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 85vw, 557px\" \/><\/a>This is where a new found interest in drawing gets you!\u00a0 I have done line and wash before &#8211; in fact there is one in my book &#8220;Bridges of Dee&#8221; &#8211; but such paintings have always been more wash than line as I had no confidence in my line.\u00a0 There are lots of ways of using this method &#8211; I have opted for doing all the line in ink before adding the wash, diving in the deep end, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember my recent watercolour of Farndon in which this window appears.\u00a0 After all the years of living in the village\u00a0 (38 years to be precise), I became very interested in the window.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite an expensive window, Victorian, red Ruabon brick, if I&#8217;m not mistaken, and built around a corner.\u00a0\u00a0 There are lots of textures and shapes.\u00a0 I think the detail responds well to line, the moulding around the panes of glass, different sorts of brick and paving, the adverts.\u00a0 The drawing is not a howling success, but it&#8217;s far better than I could have achieve two months ago.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see what colour does for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where a new found interest in drawing gets you!\u00a0 I have done line and wash before &#8211; in fact there is one in my book &#8220;Bridges of Dee&#8221; &#8211; but such paintings have always been more wash than line as I had no confidence in my line.\u00a0 There are lots of ways of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Line and Wash 1&#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\/668"}],"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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}