{"id":833,"date":"2018-10-11T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=833"},"modified":"2018-10-10T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:56:19","slug":"a-new-line-of-enquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"A new line of enquiry."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the next three or four weeks, my students will be wrestling with collage plus.\u00a0 I hasten to add that this is a new idea for me too,\u00a0 so how we will all get on is to be revealed as the weeks progress.<\/p>\n

I’m taking a double portrait as my theme – part of my plan to know my faces\u00a0 for “In the sunshine” better. It is also the case that I am using a book I mentioned two years ago “Collage, Colour and Texture in painting” as my guide, and I didn’t want unintentionally to create a copy\u00a0 of any of the paintings illustrated. \u00a0 At no point did the artist paint a portrait so I will need to understand his creative thinking rather than lean on what he did in similar situations.<\/p>\n

I discussed the layout and how I came to the final design as these line drawing show.\u00a0 I rejected using portrait orientation as neck and shoulders\u00a0 would then become part of the design.\u00a0 The painting\u00a0 was not seen (in my mind’s eye) as a traditional portrait.\u00a0 Both images face forward, so my vision was that they will appear at the same level, but he will be darker than her so will seem to recede.<\/p>\n

Then we talked of colour, using our recent work on restricted palette as reference.\u00a0 Again, my thoughts have varied over the two years I have been thinking about the painting.\u00a0 My first thoughts were to use warm creams and cooler violets, but that seemed a bit sad, so I imagined earth colours with blues and greens.\u00a0 Finally I settled on earth colours and Viridian as being both friendly and lively.<\/p>\n

Tearing shapes of suitably coloured magazine pages I arranged them on the canvas to suggest textures and colours approximately where I expected to find them in the finished painting.\u00a0 I have no idea how this is going to end …..<\/p>\n

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For the next three or four weeks, my students will be wrestling with collage plus.\u00a0 I hasten to add that this is a new idea for me too,\u00a0 so how we will all get on is to be revealed as the weeks progress. I’m taking a double portrait as my theme – part of my … Continue reading “A new line of enquiry.”<\/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\/833"}],"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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}