{"id":844,"date":"2018-10-25T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=844"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:22:54","slug":"where-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Where now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is truly advancing in the dark!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>His face seemed reasonable for this stage.\u00a0 In fact I love the luminous green lights. But hers was less clearly defined.\u00a0 Unfortunately I found myself resorting to\u00a0 paint to obliterate the offending passages,so that the carefully placed papers disappeared, and I might as well have just used paint from the beginning.<\/p>\n

My corrections did not resolve the case, in fact it made things worse.\u00a0 In frustration, I scribbled my brush over the new work.\u00a0 That action dredged up from my memory a film about the Flying Dutchman in modern times starring James Mason and Ava Gardner.\u00a0 He had painted a portrait of her, which she scribbled out with one of his brushes.\u00a0 The next time we see the painting\u00a0 he had turned the face into an oval with a contoured cross on it – So I did the same!\u00a0 An improvement!<\/p>\n

I had painted some warm shadows on his face, but felt the need to add more torn paper to recreate the textures in her hair and in the background.<\/p>\n

I have to say I’m getting a lot of enjoyment out of this exercise.\u00a0 Don’t ask what the painting means – it doesn’t mean anything.\u00a0 I’m not in a dark mood or working out a trauma of my youth (I had a good one, anyway).\u00a0 And it’s got nothing to do with Hallowe’en.\u00a0 Just Having a Go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is truly advancing in the dark! His face seemed reasonable for this stage.\u00a0 In fact I love the luminous green lights. But hers was less clearly defined.\u00a0 Unfortunately I found myself resorting to\u00a0 paint to obliterate the offending passages,so that the carefully placed papers disappeared, and I might as well have just used paint … Continue reading “Where now?”<\/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\/844"}],"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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}