{"id":690,"date":"2018-05-17T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=690"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:04:48","slug":"pastel-post-office-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Pastel Post Office 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s detail time.\u00a0 Since it’s the window itself which sparked my interest, I’m starting there.\u00a0 I noticed as I went through the village that the reference photo I have is too red, both the bricks, and the window.\u00a0 One of the advantages for working on site is that the vagaries of the printer don’t distort colour, but that is not an option I have.\u00a0 In truth, I rarely pay much attention to the colouring in a photo.\u00a0 Usually it’s too dull.\u00a0 This time I had just renewed the colour cassette and the red was feeling its oats.<\/p>\n

A quick pass of a browny orange over the brickwork proved useful in adjusting that.\u00a0 The bright scarlet I had used on the window was easily reduced by brushing it off.\u00a0 That didn’t move it all , but enough to restore the tooth to the paper.\u00a0 Indeed, I had used it hurriedly towards the end of the demonstration to stress that light and shade give the same colour different tones, sometimes amounting to different colours entirely, especially if the light is bright.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Working more carefully I tried to delineate the intricacies of the moulded bricks, showing where they caught the light, almost pale blue on a reflective surface, and where recesses were enveloped in deep shadow.\u00a0 There is a bit of exaggeration here\u00a0 – I like that.\u00a0 The windows themselves were reflecting the sky and the surrounding trees, which is great because that varies each pane, and there were notices attached to the panes too; all grist to the mill.\u00a0 This is about half an hour’s painting, so there is a long way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s detail time.\u00a0 Since it’s the window itself which sparked my interest, I’m starting there.\u00a0 I noticed as I went through the village that the reference photo I have is too red, both the bricks, and the window.\u00a0 One of the advantages for working on site is that the vagaries of the printer don’t distort … Continue reading “Pastel Post Office 2”<\/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\/690"}],"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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}