{"id":819,"date":"2018-10-04T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=819"},"modified":"2018-10-04T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T17:49:54","slug":"more-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"More colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we were working with Alizarin Crimson, Viridian, and Ultramarine Blue.\u00a0 These are big beasts, especially the first two, so the plan was that they would fight each other successfully, ending in a draw!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ALVIRUB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-823\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ALVIRUB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ALVIRUB.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ALVIRUB-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ALVIRUB-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>As you can see, that&#8217;s more or less what happened.\u00a0 Surprisingly, since we all &#8220;know&#8221; that red and green make brown, Alizarin and Viridian make a beautiful but subdued purple, and of course Alizarin and Blue make a beautiful intense one.\u00a0 I did the little painting in about 20 minutes, but I enjoyed the result so much that I thought it demanded another go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-little-Engine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-827\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-little-Engine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-little-Engine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-little-Engine-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-little-Engine-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-little-Engine-735x1024.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 85vw, 386px\" \/><\/a>I spent a bit more time on this one, and, although no railway buff would applaud the result,\u00a0 I still like the effect.<\/p>\n<p>I have not forgotten &#8220;In the sunshine&#8221;, and am quietly drawing trousered legs to achieve a relaxed pose.\u00a0 Right now his shoes are too big and clumsy, so they will have to come out.\u00a0 The trouble with improved drawing ability is that last year&#8217;s effort isn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we were working with Alizarin Crimson, Viridian, and Ultramarine Blue.\u00a0 These are big beasts, especially the first two, so the plan was that they would fight each other successfully, ending in a draw! As you can see, that&#8217;s more or less what happened.\u00a0 Surprisingly, since we all &#8220;know&#8221; that red and green make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More colours&#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\/819"}],"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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}