{"id":707,"date":"2018-06-07T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=707"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:34:40","slug":"oil-painting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Oil painting again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil painting has always been my first love.\u00a0 This time I&#8217;ve decided to do a big canvas, 24 inches by 36 inches, to be filled with exuberant brush strokes and lots of colour.\u00a0 I tasked my students to paint a bridge, largely because I had been looking through my references for paintings in my book, &#8220;The Bridges of Dee&#8221;, and found some photos that I felt had potential.<\/p>\n<p>The subject gives plenty of options for texture with stone or brickwork, water either still or flowing, greenery perhaps.\u00a0 In the book, I showed the old bridge at Bangor looking up stream and against the sun.\u00a0 This gave a lovely pearly quality to the appearance of the stonework and allowed the light reflecting off the water to illuminate the underside of the bridge &#8211; great fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BangorOldBridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-709\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BangorOldBridge-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BangorOldBridge-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BangorOldBridge-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BangorOldBridge.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> This new painting is of the same bridge but painted from the other side with the sun is full on the face of the bridge and the Church Tower adjacent to it.\u00a0 The sky is bright blue with fluffy clouds. In fact it&#8217;s a very traditional landscape and none the worse for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-710\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor-01-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor-01-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor-01-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor-01.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Before you ask, I often paint my canvas bright orange before I start the picture.\u00a0 It is so invigorating! and a great foil for the blue of the sky.\u00a0 As you can see, I&#8217;ve really enjoyed myself with the brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil painting has always been my first love.\u00a0 This time I&#8217;ve decided to do a big canvas, 24 inches by 36 inches, to be filled with exuberant brush strokes and lots of colour.\u00a0 I tasked my students to paint a bridge, largely because I had been looking through my references for paintings in my book, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil painting 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\/707"}],"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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}