{"id":791,"date":"2018-09-12T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=791"},"modified":"2018-09-12T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T07:33:41","slug":"further-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Further preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were looking through old photos to do with Rachel’s “100 hearts” needlework (blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/) when I came across a small one of my two friends taken forty years ago with the sunlight in exactly the right place!\u00a0 OK they were younger but at the size I am painting them, that will not be a problem, and most people don’t mind looking younger, anyway.\u00a0 So I tried another sketch using this new information.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That’s more like it – not a likeness yet but the shadows and highlights are better.\u00a0 Her left eye should be a trifle higher, perhaps. \u00a0 The tilt of the head is characteristic.\u00a0 It took me two hours to achieve this much, I have so much to learn!\u00a0 I used a charcoal pencil, which is a new tool to me, so even the medium was an experiment.\u00a0 I think I have more control over the marks than I do with a charcoal stick, more precision, anyway. \u00a0 However, I think this could be the basis for painting.\u00a0 Now to tackle him.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I don’t think the introduction of white has improved his appearance any!\u00a0 But light and shade, now observed rather than imagined are better,\u00a0 if rather heavy handed.<\/p>\n

If time permits I will try again in pencil to see if I can achieve a likeness.\u00a0 I remember reading recently that if you don’t achieve a likeness in line, try again, because shading cannot correct an inaccurate drawing.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a great incentive to observe more closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were looking through old photos to do with Rachel’s “100 hearts” needlework (blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/) when I came across a small one of my two friends taken forty years ago with the sunlight in exactly the right place!\u00a0 OK they were younger but at the size I am painting them, that will not be a problem, … Continue reading “Further preparations”<\/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\/791"}],"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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}