{"id":713,"date":"2018-06-14T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T08:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=713"},"modified":"2018-06-14T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T08:32:49","slug":"the-old-bridge-bangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"The old bridge, Bangor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-715\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor02-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Bangor02-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Now you can see where I&#8217;m going.\u00a0 Completing the first pass of painting is always satisfying.\u00a0 The painting appears almost magically and since everything is approximate, there is nothing to irritate.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see how freely I have painted.\u00a0 I like to stand back and use the arm and shoulder at this stage.\u00a0 If the overall composition doesn&#8217;t work, now is the time to put it right.\u00a0 However, I&#8217;m happy with this.\u00a0 It works in monochrome too so I know that the tonal balance is sound.\u00a0 Taking a black and white image is a good way of assessing tone &#8211; it is so easy to be seduced by colour, especially if colour is as important to you as it is to me.<\/p>\n<p>I used the Ultramarine Blue in the sky to make my greens and darks in the rest of the painting thereby achieving colour harmony more easily.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve added Raw Sienna and Chrome Yellow to that blue, Raw Sienna and Burnt Umber for the reeds, and added the blue to my favourite dark green mix of Viridian and Burnt Umber for the darker bushes.\u00a0 There is even a touch of the blue in the sandstone mix of Umber, Alizarin Crimson and Raw Sienna.\u00a0 Vertical strokes for the reflective water and &#8220;shimmering&#8221; strokes for the reflecting sky complete this pass.\u00a0 Now I can enjoy refining the image.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can see where I&#8217;m going.\u00a0 Completing the first pass of painting is always satisfying.\u00a0 The painting appears almost magically and since everything is approximate, there is nothing to irritate.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see how freely I have painted.\u00a0 I like to stand back and use the arm and shoulder at this stage.\u00a0 If the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The old bridge, Bangor&#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\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}