{"id":735,"date":"2018-07-12T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=735"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:01:57","slug":"the-end-is-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"The end is in sight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve had a struggle with this painting because it stops\u00a0 it becoming slick and mannered.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve found the right colour for the path but the tonal balance is still not there yet.\u00a0\u00a0 To disappear from the conscious view, the path and grass need to be about the same tone, so that is still to do.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-737\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brights.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brights-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brights-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, the bridge and tower are singing &#8211; from the same hymn sheet too! &#8211; and the sun-kissed leaves on the trees and bushes are joining in the chorus.\u00a0 Some brights have been suggested in the reeds, and the finials on the tower have reappeared.\u00a0 The top of the hedge on the right had been straight\u00a0 and at the same level as the roof of the church nave (very peculiar), so I&#8217;ve varied that a little using the dark trees behind to make the brighter green stand forward.<\/p>\n<p>I spent an hour and a half doing all this, most of it fighting the path, blue to creamy brown, to red brown, to orangy brown to raw sienna.\u00a0 I think this is right.<\/p>\n<p>There is the path to finish, some palette knife reeds to insert, some weeds to grow in the path, maybe some &#8220;proper&#8221; grass &#8211; maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve had a struggle with this painting because it stops\u00a0 it becoming slick and mannered.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve found the right colour for the path but the tonal balance is still not there yet.\u00a0\u00a0 To disappear from the conscious view, the path and grass need to be about the same tone, so that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end is in sight!&#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\/735"}],"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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}