{"id":717,"date":"2018-06-21T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T08:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=717"},"modified":"2018-06-21T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T08:02:43","slug":"bangor-bridge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Bangor Bridge 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This second pass has started to suggest the details in the painting.\u00a0 The sky has lost some of its energy, but perhaps it was too dominating to be a secondary player in the scene.\u00a0 I used a slightly smaller brush to calm it down, not changing the tones and colours just repeating some of them with smaller strokes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Turning my attention to the trees beyond the bridge, I sought to differentiate them from each other.\u00a0 After all, they are just beyond, not in the far distance.\u00a0 Again, I didn’t want them to dominate, just to be there.\u00a0 Natural progression then led me to the bridge itself.\u00a0 Here big changes have be made.\u00a0 I was looking for a good basic colour and tone for the red sandstone used in its construction, (there is yellow sandstone in there too, but that colour\u00a0 is easier to find).\u00a0 Red is a misnomer – it’s more brown than red – so I started with Burnt Sienna and added a touch of Alizarin and a touch of Raw Sienna.\u00a0 Alizarin is fierce.\u00a0 I usually tell my students to show the brush where the Alizarin is on the palette, and that is as close as you should get.\u00a0 An exaggeration , true, but not far from the truth even so.\u00a0 A small addition of white and we have success.\u00a0 A tiny sweep of dark on the underside of the arch, and behold! the bridge appears.\u00a0 Isn’t painting wonderful.\u00a0 I have done a little bit on the church tower, given the church itself a roof and played with the adjacent bushes.<\/p>\n

This second pass is when painting becomes the relaxing pastime the uninitiated think it is.\u00a0 The first pass laid out the structure of the painting, so now I consult my reference photo less and less, and engage with the painting in front of me more and more.\u00a0 I can stand back, using my arm and shoulder, holding the long handle of the brush near the end, gradually\u00a0 developing my initial\u00a0 inspiration.\u00a0 It puts me in a happy place.\u00a0 I know that somewhere in the painting will be a knotty problem that will have me in thrall – there always is –\u00a0 but right now all is serene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This second pass has started to suggest the details in the painting.\u00a0 The sky has lost some of its energy, but perhaps it was too dominating to be a secondary player in the scene.\u00a0 I used a slightly smaller brush to calm it down, not changing the tones and colours just repeating some of them … Continue reading “Bangor Bridge 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\/717"}],"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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}