{"id":688,"date":"2018-05-10T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=688"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:33:08","slug":"pastel-post-office-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Pastel Post Office 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the first of my Thursday Blogs.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I&#8217;m a bit fixated on this Post Office window, but I know that different media do show different interpretations and I was not happy with my watercolour.\u00a0 I felt it didn&#8217;t show why I was interested in the window (almost uniquely, I&#8217;m intending to try again in watercolour &#8211; it&#8217;s vanishingly rare for me to make a second attempt in the same media.\u00a0 Perhaps I am fixated!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pastel-Post-Office-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-687\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pastel-Post-Office-1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pastel-Post-Office-1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pastel-Post-Office-1-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pastel-Post-Office-1-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Pastel-Post-Office-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>This is the first pass.\u00a0 I looked for all the colours I could see in the brickwork then, using the side of the pastel lightly overlaid them so that they blurred and melded.\u00a0 You can use bright, intense colours this way as long as you don&#8217;t overdo it and use all the &#8220;tooth&#8221; in the paper (Canson Moonstone).\u00a0 then I darked in return of the wall , using a darker red for the window, while my brightest red stood for the brighter part.\u00a0 The pavement and road are too bright. I think that you can more easily tone things down that brighten them so I&#8217;m fairly sanguine about that.\u00a0 It took about quarter of an hour to get this far &#8211; I do like pastel!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the first of my Thursday Blogs. It looks like I&#8217;m a bit fixated on this Post Office window, but I know that different media do show different interpretations and I was not happy with my watercolour.\u00a0 I felt it didn&#8217;t show why I was interested in the window (almost uniquely, I&#8217;m intending to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pastel Post Office 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\/688"}],"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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}